From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Mon May 3 12:03:53 2004 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 12:03:53 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New:Roberts, Brooks and Langer and Mriganka Sur Message-ID: Hello Friends of MIT World Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu to see the newest additions to the video archive. The MIT Enterprise Forum presents "Innovation at the Interface: Technological Fusion at MIT" A panel discussion moderated by Edward B. Roberts David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology Chair, MIT Entrepreneurship Center featuring Rodney A. Brooks Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Robert S. Langer Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering 2002 Draper Prize Award Recipient ******************************** The School of Science presents Mriganka Sur Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience Head, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences "The Brain and the Mind" This is the sixth of 7 lectures from Fundamentals of the Brain and Mind: A Short Course in Neuroscience presented by the School of Science, with the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the Picower Center for Learning and Memory, and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. See the others at http://mitworld.mit.edu/series/42/ IN THE PIPELINE Susan Lindquist, Director, Whitehead Institute Professor of Biology, MIT "Are We as Crazy as Mad Cows?" Presented by the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research F. Thomson Leighton, Professor of Applied Mathematics Co-Founder, Akamai "The Akamai Story: From Theory to Practice" Presented by the MIT Industrial Liaison Program's 2004 MIT IT Conference: "Computation Anytime, Anywhere: Developing IT We Can Live With" MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the School of Architecture and Planning, the School of Engineering, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the Sloan School of Management, and the School of Science at MIT. Operational support is also provided by the Lord Foundation of Massachusetts. -- 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/20040503/6c3719d2/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue May 11 10:08:49 2004 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:08:49 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Margaret Atwood and Riccardo Giacconi Message-ID: Hello Friends of MIT World Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu to see the newest additions to the MIT World. The MIT Office of the Arts presents Margaret Atwood "Oryx and Crake Revealed" This lively talk by Margaret Atwood is by far one of the funnier events on MIT World. She reads from her most recent novel, Oryx and Crake, and also tells a long and winding and amusing story about her early efforts to get published. ******************************** The Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium presents Riccardo Giacconi Research Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics "Progress in the Study of the X-Ray Background" Dr. Giacconi discusses the challenges in x-ray astronomy and the quest for improved instrumentation. With the addition of Dr. Giacconi's talk, there are now videos from 16 Nobel Laureates on MIT World. Thanks to all of the hosts of these events for providing them to MIT World. T IN THE PIPELINE Authors at MIT presents Laurence J. 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Hear how Akamai grew from a reluctant 8-page business plan in the MIT 50k Competition to a world leader in distributing content on the web for everyone from ESPN to Land's End to Microsoft. *********************** The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research presents Susan Lindquist Director, Whitehead Institute MIT Professor of Biology "Are We as Crazy as Mad Cows?" Lindquist explains the process of protein folding, and the terrible outcomes when the folding goes wrong. In this presentation filled with vivid and memorable slides, she explains and demystifies Mad Cow Disease, and how and why it takes a long time to do the damage that it does. 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See the others by using the video finder, and selecting "Whitehead" from the list of "hosts". *********************** The Industrial Liaison Program Technology Executives Lecture Series presents Padmasree Warrior Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Motorola, Incorporated "Seamless Transitions" Padmasree Warrior gives an inside look at technological advances that are in the works at Motorola to enable people to make seamless transitions from work to home to car. Go directly to the page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/201/. MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs and is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the School of Architecture and Planning, the School of Engineering, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the Sloan School of Management, and the School of Science at MIT. 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