The 1995 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was one of the very first events to be webcast live. Robert T. Morris (who was notorious!), Trevor Blackwell, and Chris Small — all Harvard computer science grad students — engineered the webcast, with backing and encouragement from Professor Margo Seltzer. Today, Scott Kirsner profiles (for the BetaBoston web […]
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Watch the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony broadcast live!
The broadcast of the 22nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will begin at 7:15 PM Eastern Time. The ceremony itself is scheduled to start at 7:30 PM Eastern Time. Watch it below! Please feel free to tweet/facebook/G+ along with the ceremony, using #IgNobel
Ig Nobel Night Big Event in The Netherlands
We are delighted to announce that on Ig Nobel Night (Thursday, September 20, 2012) there will be a grand, middle-of-the-night event in the Netherlands, at a beautiful theater, the Stadsgehoorzaal (pictured here), in the city of Leiden. It begins at 11:00 pm (Leiden time) with live appearances by several Dutch Ig Nobel Prize winners and other […]
2011 Ig Nobel Ceremony webcast tonight!
Tonight’s the 21st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. 1200 people will have the privilege of watching it live, in-person at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. Many more will have the opportunity to watch it live on the internet. The webcast will be available here on Improbable.com, at the Improbable Research YouTube channel and at finer […]
Watching the Ig Nobel webcast, in Oz
If you are in Australia, you might plan to watch the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony live webcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corp web site. The ABC has a preview, with video of one of Oz’s many past winners, and a descriptive listing of several others. Here’s the ABC’s partial list (these are just in science categories) of […]