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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000">The
Technology and Policy Program presents</font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>Issues in Technology and Policy</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2"
color="#000000"><b>IAP Seminar Series</b></font></div>
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seminars meet in E51-149</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+3" color="#000000"><b>Assessing
Implications of</b></font></div>
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Technologies:</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+3" color="#000000"><b>Looking Back to
Look Ahead</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">Ken
Oye</font><font size="+2">,<font face="Arial" color="#000000">
Professor of Political Science and Engineering
Systems</font></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2"
color="#000000">Tuesday, Jan. 9th</font></div>
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- 1:30 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+2"
color="#000000">E51-149</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">New technologies, their
potential applications, and their societal implications are seldom
accurately predicted, yet investment choices and regulatory decisions
must be made. This seminar will focus on two retrospective cases (GPS
and the laser) and two current emerging technologies (synthetic
biology and Internet II) to illustrate issues of risks/benefits,
protocols and standards, intellectual property, and
regulation.</font></div>
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Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">rrobins@mit.edu for further
information</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000"><u><b>TPP IAP
Seminar Series Schedule</b></u></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">(For seminar descriptions see
http://student.mit.edu/iap/nstechpo.html</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Tues. Jan.
9 </font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">
Noon-1:30 pm</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Assessing Implications of
Emerging Technologies</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Ken Oye, Professor of
Political Science and Engineering Systems</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Tues. Jan.
23 </font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">
Noon-1:30 pm</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Issues in Lean Enterprise
Architecting and Transformation</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Prof. Deborah Nightingale,
Director, Lean Aerospace Initiative</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Tues. Jan. 30</font><font
face="Arial" color="#000000"> Noon-1:30
pm</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Pathways to Sustainable
Development: Co-optimizing Competitiveness, Employment and
Environment</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Nicholas Ashford, Professor
of Technology and Policy</i></font></div>
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All seminars meet in E51-149<br>
Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.<br>
For further information contact Renee Robins,
rrobins@</font>mit.edu</div>
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Renee J. Robins<br>
Director of Special Projects, Technology and Policy Program, MIT
Engineering Systems Division<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E40-381<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
(617) 253-7662 (tel)
(617) 452-2599 (fax) rrobins@mit.edu
(email)<br>
http://tppserver.mit.edu (TPP web) <br>
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