Sunday, May 6, 2007

Next steps

All right, here's what everyone is responsible for:

Story component #1 -- What does STAIR do? And what is the potential market?
media: video interview with Andrew Ng, b-roll of STAIR in action (from Jack Hubbard at Stanford News Service), infographic of how it works, and perhaps an interview with a venture capitalist or potential user to talk about the market segment
supplementary info: links to press coverage of STAIR, extra downloads of the Andrew Ng
interview or the STAIR in action.
team members: Ina and Nef

Story component #2 -- Who is Andrew Ng?
media: video interview with Andrew, b-roll of him at work, pix of him and his team
supplementary info: links to his bio, his home page, his CV, and stories about him.
team members: Ted and William

Story component #3 -- Time line of significant scientific and cultural developments in the
history of robotics and AI at Stanford (we need a shorter name for this)
media: photos and/or videos of each development, along with a paragraph of explanatory text.
team member: Ox
inspiration: the Jerry Brown campaign time line, time line that accompanies NYT story about Ng's research. Try to have fun with this.
source: Get with Prof. Oussama Khatib. He has a highlight reel of important AI research at Stanford.

Don't forget: with each component we should think about a space to invite user comments and input and to get people engaged on the topic.
(Maybe a poll to vote for your favorite pop culture robot, a quiz, flash game, etc?)