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<div><b>CAN'T DECIDE IF YOU WANT AN ACADEMIC CAREER, OR A CAREER IN
INDUSTRY? </b><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">Come to the next event in the
Academic Career Series, co-sponsored by MITCO, GSC and the Postdoc
Advisory Council...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Navigating the
Transition</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>from Academia to
Industry (and vice versa)</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Wednesday, Aug.
16, 4-5:15 p.m.</b></font><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Location - MIT
34-101</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">Featured panelists:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Prof. Rodney
Brooks</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Panasonic Professor of
Robotics</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Co-founder and Chief Technical
Officer of iRobot Corp.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Irene Grief, PhD</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">IBM Dept. Group Manager,
Collaborative User Experience and IBM Fellow</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Former faculty member of computer
science, U. of Washington and of EECS at MIT</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Mark Keating, MD<br>
</b>Head, Human Genetics and Opthamology Disease</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Novartis Institute of Biomedical
Research</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Former Prof. of Cell Biology and
Medicine at Harvard Medical School</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Prof. Tom
Leighton</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">MIT Department of
Mathematics</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">& Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory<br>
Professor of Applied Mathematics</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Co-founder and chief scientist of
Akamai Technologies</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b> </b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>Dr. Mary Adams
Viola</b></font></div>
<div>Associate Director, Gordon Institute</div>
<div>Tufts University</div>
<div>Former Director of R&D, Polaroid Corp.lease</div>
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<div>Janet E. Fischer<br>
Office of the Provost<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
C0-Administrator, Postdoc Advisory Council</div>
<div>http://web.mit.edu/mitpostdocs</div>
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