MIT Media Lab

Vasken Kalayjian meets Jacqueline Karaaslanian of MIT Media Lab to brand her new startup foundation in Armenia. This is the start of a long collaboration. More international projects and place branding follow in this year. Along with Cundari in Canada, GK Brand wins the contract for country branding of Armenia. We conduct a global perception survey in 38 countries.

A visit to the MIT Media Lab sparks a change in the way we think about our work and the way we look at the future, through meetings and conversations with some of the greatest minds of our time, including: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman Emeritus of MIT Media Lab, One Laptop per Child and the author of Being Digital; Marvin Minsky, a cognitive scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence, co-founder of the MIT’s AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy; Cynthia Solomon, a pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, and educational computing; Glorianna Davenport, media maker, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab and director of interactive cinema research; and many others.
BNP Paribas
Eppendorf
Pilkington
Healthy Cells
Chi Dancentre
Jean Carrau Decorating
Diageo
Luys Foundation Education
Republic of Armenia
Central Bank of Armenia
Ministry of Economy and Trade of Armenia
Wines of Armenia
Armenia World Expo
Milan World Expo
Canon Camera Division
Sacred Passage and the Way of Nature
The Holly Sea of Etchmiadzin
Gargar Village Armenia
Queens Community House
Ogilvy
Pall
Shell Gas
Stefano Rotolo Handcrafter Shoes
LifeLock Systems
The Apprentice American TV Series with Donald Trump
Baker Corp

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Alan Eustace, an American computer scientist, sets a world record highest and longest free fall jump over Roswell, New Mexico, breaking the sound barrier without any machine assistance.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the final part of its Fifth Assessment Report, warning that the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage from global emissions of CO2.

The unmanned Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe successfully lands on Comet 67P – the first time in history that a spacecraft has landed on such an object.

U.S. President Barack Obama announces the resumption of normal relations between the U.S. and Cuba.