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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"Desiree D. Dudley" <<a href="mailto:desiree.dawn@gmail.com">desiree.dawn@gmail.com</a>><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>New Class: Revolutionary Ventures</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">September 10, 2015 at 12:43:41 PM EDT<br>
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Prof Ed Boyden and Dr. Adam Marblestone asked me if I might forward<br>
this email to you in hopes of it being sent out to the Biology<br>
students list as an announcement today for the first week of classes?<br>
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It's a brand new interdisciplinary class and we are still selecting applicants.<br>
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I realize you may be very busy this week, so any and all help would be<br>
very much appreciated!<br>
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Desiree<br>
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NEW CLASS: Revolutionary Ventures (9.455, 15.128, 20.454, MAS.883)<br>
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Announcing a new class, Revolutionary Ventures, about how to transform<br>
scientific fields and industries, solving major problems of the human<br>
condition, through problem-directed design and strategic deployment of<br>
new organizations.<br>
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Instructors: J. Bonsen ~ E. Boyden ~ D. Dudley ~ R. Ellis-Behnke ~ J.<br>
Jacobson ~ A. Marblestone<br>
Units: 2-0-7 Units<br>
Time: Thursdays, 2-4pm<br>
Place: E15-341, MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA<br>
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Description<br>
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Seminar on envisioning and building ideas and organizations to<br>
accelerate engineering revolutions. Focuses on emerging technology<br>
domains, such as neurotechnology, imaging, cryotechnology,<br>
gerontechnology, and bio-and-nano fabrication. Draws on historical<br>
examples as well as live case studies of existing or emerging<br>
organizations, including labs, institutes, startups, and companies.<br>
Goals range from accelerating basic science to developing<br>
transformative products or therapeutics. Each class is devoted to a<br>
specific area, often with invited speakers, exploring issues from the<br>
deeply technical through the strategic. Individually or in small<br>
groups, students prototype new ventures aimed at inventing and<br>
deploying revolutionary technologies.<br>
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Limited Enrollment<br>
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Please email <a href="mailto:reven@media.mit.edu">reven@media.mit.edu</a> three paragraphs summarizing: (1)<br>
your trajectory in education and/or career to the present day,<br>
emphasizing any special skills or unique experiences, (2) your<br>
inventive, scientific, and/or entrepreneurial aspirations over the<br>
coming decade, (3) your biggest ambition about how the human condition<br>
could be transformed for the better within our lifetimes.<br>
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--<br>
Ed Boyden, Ph. D.<br>
Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group<br>
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute,<br>
Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences<br>
Co-Director, MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering<br>
New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Building E15: E15-421, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 (mailing address)<br>
Building 46: 46-2171C, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
email - <a href="mailto:esb@media.mit.edu">esb@media.mit.edu</a><br>
phone - (617) 324-3085<br>
cell - (650) 468-5625<br>
fax - (617) 253-6285<br>
Google Hangout - <a href="mailto:eboyden3@gmail.com">eboyden3@gmail.com</a><br>
skype - eboyden3<br>
web - <a href="http://syntheticneurobiology.org">http://syntheticneurobiology.org</a><br>
twitter - <a href="http://twitter.com/eboyden3">http://twitter.com/eboyden3</a><br>
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-- <br>
Desiree D. Dudley<br>
Director of Neurotechnology Partnerships<br>
Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT<br>
Room E15-417, 20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
<a href="http://www.syntheticneurobiology.org">http://www.syntheticneurobiology.org</a><br>
MIT-work email: desireed@mit.edu<br>
all-purpose: desiree.dawn@gmail.com<br>
cell: 510-759-5908<br>
office: 617-452-5699<br>
fax: 617-253-6285<br>
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