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?)

We got 4 weeks.

On May 31, we need to have our story completed. That's four weeks from today. It's time to get moving.

To start, let's meet on Sunday, May 6, at Wallenberg Hall at 5 p.m. But let's all come to the meeting with an agenda, and hammer out that agenda on this blog between now and then. That way we'll be more productive when we meet.

Now that we know that we have story templates from Jane Stevens to use for our piece, I
think we need to prioritize three or four story elements that we'll work on between now
and the end of the quarter. Here is my preference:

1. What does STAIR do? (Video of it in motion; graphic of how the AI works; video
interview with Andrew Ng talking about it.)

2. Who is Andrew Ng? Or, if our video/audio quality is poor, we can focus on another
researcher. I think this piece is essential to humanize it, though. (Video interview,
supplementary text and links.)

3. What is the future market for STAIR? Who will benefit? (Video interview with Ng,
graphics/charts.) (I'm not crazy about this idea--how else can we represent this piece of the story?)

4. How does robotics research at Stanford relate to pop culture and Hollywood robots? In other words, how close is Stanford to bringing to life some of the popular robots we've seen?
(Slideshow with music of pix from Stanford and from popular culture.)

(If the fourth piece is not possible because of copyright issues, we could always do a
timeline of the history of AI at Stanford like the one shown in class today.)

Once we pick the three or four pieces of our story, we need to determine what media we
need to either shoot ourselves or gather from other sources to do those components. And
the final step is to assign team members to work on each of the tasks.

In summary, my hope for Sunday's meeting is that we settle on the components of our story
and then each person takes control of one of those components from here on out.

Let's get talking about this. And building.