This lecture and project course is about interactions: between the ever-increasing computational power and the everyday objects that it can be embedded in; between ways of thinking about these possibilities, and between distinct objectives such as performance, usability, elegance, ergonomics, and aesthetics.
This course is actually two courses given in parallel-- one in computer science and engineering (Givat Ram) and one at the Bezalel Academy of Art (Mount Scopus campus).

Participants in each course will have access to the insights and some of the tools of the other. We will develop in the labs some hardware and software building blocks for products with embedded intelligence, and discuss the evolution of technologies and approaches to design of effective products in lectures. Small student teams will develop future product ideas to the point of testing their validity with prototypes and making a final presentation of their potential. If Students are interested, they may form cross disciplinary teams with students from the other campus. Note: Students do not have to participate in the other course, but will be welcome to join if they like.