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color="#0000FF"><b>Issues in Technology and Policy Seminar
Series</b></font></div>
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color="#0000FF">Tuesdays, Noon - 1:30 pm</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Many policy issues at the public and private
levels involve the application, commercialization, and control of
technologies. This seminar series will explore selected issues in
technology and policy, including examples from areas such as the
energy and the environment, telecommunications, space exploration, and
nuclear weapons.</font></div>
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<div><b>Jan. 4:<x-tab> </x-tab>Global Warming and Sustainable Energy:
What are the Realities?</b></div>
<div><i>Michael Golay, Professor of Nuclear Engineering</i></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">To effectively employ
technology to mitigate global warming, technologies of different
scales and designs are needed along with an ambitious effort to deploy
them. How can the necessary resources be mobilized? Can
policy measures overcome inherent difficulties? This seminar
will discuss sustainable energy technologies in terms of. needs,
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<div><b>Jan. 11:<x-tab>
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</x-tab></b><i>Annalisa Weigel, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and
Astronautics and Engineering Systems</i></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">This seminar will look at the early history of
international space policy, ranging from United Nations Treaties and
Conventions to Presidential Decision Directives and the race to the
moon. Geared to a general MIT audience, no specific knowledge of
space is required, but curiosity is encouraged. Come prepared
for an interactive session, as this will not be your average history
lesson.</font></div>
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<div><b>Jan. 18:<x-tab>
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Internet,</b></div>
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Copyright Law</b></div>
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</x-tab></b><i>Frank Field, Senior Research Associate, Center for
Technology, Policy and Industrial</i></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Digital distribution of cultural content
(music, movies, etc.) confronts us with fundamental questions about
copyright, technology and the role of government in promoting and
nurturing creativity. Tragically, the rhetoric that has emerged
around cases like Napster, KaZaA and their ilk fails to illuminate
these issues and instead steers us toward simple answers that belie
the complexity of the underlying questions. File-sharing is only
the tip of the iceberg, and we invite disaster by failing to think
carefully about the difficult questions that advances in digital
technology poses. If you think you know your position about
these issues -- or if you don't -- come hear a provocative
presentation and participate in the discussion about the myriad policy
issues involved and how their resolution will shape the future of the
music industry.</font></div>
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<div><b>Jan. 25:<x-tab>
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Offering</b></div>
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Belfer Center for Science</i></div>
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International Affairs</i></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">This seminar addresses the linkage between
civilian nuclear energy technologies and the spread of nuclear
weapons, and offers a number of metrics for judging technical and
institutional proposals to break this linkage. The talk will
also briefly address the danger of terrorist theft of nuclear
materials and sabotage of nuclear facilities, and how it might be
addressed. Matthew Bunn, a recognized expert on security issues
related to nuclear stockpiles and currently Senior Research Associate
in the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs in Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School
of Government, is also pursuing the TMP Doctoral degree here at
MIT.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times" size="+1"><i>Bring brown bag
lunch; light refreshments provided.</i></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times" size="+1"><i>For further
information contact Renee Robins, rrobins@mit.edu</i></font></div>
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