From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Jun 3 10:07:55 2003 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT WORLD) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:07:55 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Excavating the Hunley and the Monitor and Chuck Colllins Message-ID: Hello friends of MIT World. Go to http://web.mit.edu/mitworld for the latest additions to MIT World. DeepArch Research Group in Technology, Archaeology and the Deep Sea presents "Civil War High Tech: Excavating the Hunley and Monitor" In the last few years, archaeologists have recovered two of the Civil War's most ingenious inventions: the Union ironclad warship Monitor and the Confederate submarine Hunley. In this symposium panelists discuss the newest technology projects that have brought these inventions to light from the sea depths, and what they can teach about technology and the Civil War. ******************** The Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT presents Chuck Collins Program Director United for a Fair Economy "Why is there No Class Warfare in the US? American Exceptionalism and Inequality" As the tax cut legislation is signed into law, Chuck Collins discusses the distribution of wealth in America. Mr. Collins' latest book, Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes is co-authored with William Gates, Sr. ****************** There are now 122 videos on MIT World. View the entire video archive at http://web.mit.edu/mitworld/mainsite/archive.html As this archive grows the need for search tools and better organization of the video files grows as well. Major changes to the web site are in the works. We expect to go live with the new web site in June. In the meantime, we have reorganized the Site Index and Video Archive into an alphabetical listing. We hope this helps. MIT World is funded by the MIT Alumni Association http://web.mit.edu/alum/ the MIT Industrial Liaison Program http://ilp.mit.edu/ilp/ and the Lord Foundation of Massachusetts. Please forward this message to anyone in your mailbox who needs to know. MIT World Food for Thought on the Web Video on demand. 24/7 -- MIT World (http://web.mit.edu/mitworld) is a free, open streaming media web site of significant public events at MIT. It features the most recent speakers and guests from across the campus and around the world. Since its inception in September 2001 it has grown to reflect a great deal about MIT and the world of ideas that are generated, discussed and analyzed every day on campus. Send comments to Project Manager MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg. 9 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 http://web.mit.edu/mitworld -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20030603/8162de97/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Jun 11 06:05:09 2003 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:05:09 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Architect Rafael =?iso-8859-1?q?Vi=F1oly?= and Honeywell's Nance Dicciani Message-ID: Hello friends of MIT World. Go to http://web.mit.edu/mitworld for the latest additions to MIT World. The Department of Architecture presents The Sixteenth Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture Architect Rafael Vi?oly "Ground Zero: The Design Competition" Rafael Vi?oly and Frederic Schwartz led the THINK team, whose design was one of two finalists for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's World Trade Center design competition. In this May 6th talk at MIT, Vi?oly gives a candid and personal account of one of the most emotionally charged competitions in US history. He talks about winning and losing, down to the final moments of the competition. ******************** The Department of Chemical Engineering presents the Warren K. Lewis Lecture Nance Dicciani President & CEO , Specialty Materials, Honeywell International Inc. "Engineering Engineers Tomorrow" Nance Dicciani provides an overview of the state of the chemical industry, with a global perspective on the pressures and opportunities in today's economy. This is the 5th event from Chemical Engineering on MIT World. Check out the others at http://web.mit.edu/mitworld/content/chem_engineering/ ****************** There are now 124 videos on MIT World. View the entire video archive at http://web.mit.edu/mitworld/mainsite/archive.html As this archive grows the need for search tools and better organization of the video files grows as well. Major changes to the web site are in the works. We expect to go live with the new web site in June. In the meantime, we have reorganized the Site Index and Video Archive into an alphabetical listing. We hope this helps. MIT World is funded by the MIT Alumni Association (check out its new web site) http://alum.mit.edu the MIT Industrial Liaison Program http://ilp.mit.edu/ilp/ and the Lord Foundation of Massachusetts. Please forward this message to anyone in your mailbox who needs to know. MIT World The Essential MIT Video on demand. 24/7 -- -- MIT World (http://web.mit.edu/mitworld) is a free, open streaming media web site of significant public events at MIT. It features the most recent speakers and guests from across the campus and around the world. Since its inception in September 2001 it has grown to reflect a great deal about MIT and the world of ideas that are generated, discussed and analyzed every day on campus. Send comments to Project Manager MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg. 9 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 http://web.mit.edu/mitworld -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20030611/082c64c7/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Jun 25 09:29:41 2003 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:29:41 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] CIS Forum on Islam and Sloan Professor Rebecca Henderson Message-ID: Hello friends of MIT World. Go to http://web.mit.edu/mitworld for the latest additions to MIT World. The Center For International Studies at MIT Starr Forum and The Boston Review present "Islam and the Challenge of Democracy" A Panel Moderated by Tom Ashbrook Host, WBUR's On Point As the period of rebuilding Iraq begins, this discussion focuses on the big questions of political systems and religion based value systems-can Islam and democracy co-exist in the Arab world? The panel features: Fawaz Gerges Professor, International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies Sarah Lawrence College Khaled About El Fadl Professor of Law UCLA Jack Beatty Senior Editor The Atlantic Monthly and On Point news analyst This is the 6th video presentation from the Center for International Studies on MIT World. See the others at http://web.mit.edu/mitworld/content/cis/ ******************** Industrial Liaison Program The 2003 MIT Innovations in Management Conference "Driving Innovation through Technology" presents Rebecca Henderson Eastman Kodak Professor of Management MIT Sloan School of Management "Building Growth: Why Don't We Use What We Know?" In this lively talk, Professor Henderson takes on the organizational and operational challenges to a corporations's growth and offers some provocative ideas about some human factors that make growth so difficult to achieve. This is the eleventh event from the Industrial Liaison Program on MIT World. See the others at http://web.mit.edu/mitworld/content/liaison_prog/ Also check out other video selections from the MIT Sloan School of Management at http://web.mit.edu/mitworld/content/sloan/ ****************** There are now 126 videos on MIT World. View the entire video archive at http://web.mit.edu/mitworld/mainsite/archive.html News flash!! We're almost done!! The new web site in the works is nearing the final stage for completion. We expect to go live with the new web site next week. We'll be sending out an announcement with the new URL soon. All of the pages on the current site will have a redirect to the individual pages on the new site. Look for a cleaner, brighter look, and new search features as MIT World changes into a data base driven site. Thanks in advance to everyone for their patience with the current, somewhat outdated site. MIT World is funded by the MIT Alumni Association--check out its new web site at this new address http://alum.mit.edu the MIT Industrial Liaison Program http://ilp.mit.edu/ilp/ and the Lord Foundation of Massachusetts. Please forward this message to anyone in your mailbox who needs to know. MIT World MIT To Go Video on demand. 24/7 -- MIT World (http://web.mit.edu/mitworld) is a free, open streaming media web site of significant public events at MIT. It features the most recent speakers and guests from across the campus and around the world. Since its inception in September 2001 it has grown to reflect a great deal about MIT and the world of ideas that are generated, discussed and analyzed every day on campus. Send comments to Project Manager MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg. 9 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 http://web.mit.edu/mitworld -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20030625/d7d30891/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Mon Jun 30 09:43:00 2003 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:43:00 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Governor Romney at the Deshpande Center and Gerald Sussman's Clock Lecture Message-ID: Hello friends of MIT World. Go to http://web.mit.edu/mitworld for the latest additions to MIT World. The Deshpande Center for Technical Innovation presents IdeaStream Symposium 2003 "Keynote Speech" Mitt Romney Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Deshpande Center for Technical Innovation hosted IdeaStream,a leading-edge symposium bridging the gap between research in MIT's School of Engineering and the emerging-tech business community. The Center is sponsoring research a broad range of areas including Biotechnology, Information Technology and Tiny Technologies. In addition to Governor Romney, this video presentation includes welcoming remarks from Krisztina Holly, Executive Director, The Deshpande Center, Dr. Charles M. Vest, MIT President and closing remarks from Dr. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, Founder, Sycamore Networks. ******************** Also, the MIT School of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science presents Professor Gerald Sussman "An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch" The inner workings of mechanical timepieces are revealed in this legendary talk, known to many simply as "The Clock Lecture". ******************** There are now 128 videos on MIT World. View the entire video archive at http://web.mit.edu/mitworld/mainsite/archive.html SITE UPDATE This is the last update the the current MIT World web site. The new site, at a new address will be available this week. We'll send you a separate email when the site goes live. All of the pages on the old site will have a redirect to the corresponding pages on the old site. So standby to change your bookmarks, and if you have links on a web site to a page on MIT World, standby to change the links. MIT World is funded by the MIT Alumni Association--check out the MIT Alumni Association's new web site at this new address http://alum.mit.edu the MIT Industrial Liaison Program http://ilp.mit.edu/ilp/ and the Lord Foundation of Massachusetts. Please forward this message to anyone in your mailbox who needs to know. MIT World Must See MIT Video on demand. 24/7 -- -- MIT World (http://web.mit.edu/mitworld) is a free, open streaming media web site of significant public events at MIT. It features the most recent speakers and guests from across the campus and around the world. Since its inception in September 2001 it has grown to reflect a great deal about MIT and the world of ideas that are generated, discussed and analyzed every day on campus. Send comments to Project Manager MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg. 9 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 http://web.mit.edu/mitworld -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20030630/153e7148/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Mon Jun 30 14:45:31 2003 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:45:31 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] NEW MIT WORLD web site Message-ID: Dear Friends of MIT World, Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu/ to see the new MIT WORLD Web site. The site was launched today, June 30, 2003 at 1:30PM Eastern time. Please change your bookmarks and any internal links. All pages will have redirect page so that you can easily find specific pages. There are many improvements to the site. We have taken in your helpful comments and suggestions and incorporated many of them into the new design. The functionality of the site is greatly improved, and it features a cleaner, brighter design. While we retained the original logo, we've put it in a new environment. All of the content is now searchable in a data base. Some of the features include: Video Finder Search on "any word" and find the video. Search on a broad list of "categories" Search on MIT Host. Hosts are the departments, labs, centers, programs or schools at MIT who are the presenters of events. The old site organized the videos this way. Email to a friend You can send an email to someone telling them about a specific video of interest. Videos of Note In addition to the 2 videos featured in the What's New area, there are now 4 other videos to keep in mind. As you can imagine this new site is the work of many dedicated professionals who have worked throughout the better part of 2003 on this effort. Our partners include MIT IS's Web Communication Services, who helped in assessing the needs of the audience and in recommending the major framework for the new content management system. WCS consultants have worked closely on every step in this process from RFP development to vendor selection, usability and accessibility concerns, and integrating the site into the new environment. Check them out on the new MIT IS site http://web.mit.edu/is/ at http://web.mit.edu/is/web/index.html The site was built and designed by L/M Interactive of Andover Massachusetts. Their technical knowledge and creative energies have made this an elegant state of the art site with grace, style with a solid infrastructure and room for growth. See more on L/M Interactive at http://www.lminteractive.com/ info at lminteractive.com Funding for the new web site was provided by the Lord Foundation of Massachusetts. For a full list of credits go to http://mitworld.mit.edu/credits.php My personal thanks to all involved in this effort, and to all of the MIT WORLD viewers who have given us so much feedback in the past year. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. Best regards, Laurie Everett Project Manager MIT World -- MIT World (http://web.mit.edu/mitworld) is a free, open streaming media web site of significant public events at MIT. It features the most recent speakers and guests from across the campus and around the world. Since its inception in September 2001 it has grown to reflect a great deal about MIT and the world of ideas that are generated, discussed and analyzed every day on campus. Send comments to Project Manager MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Bldg. 9 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 http://mitworld.mit.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20030630/ad0a8cb0/attachment.htm