From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Mon Nov 1 13:35:34 2004 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:35:34 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Magnanti on Engineering Systems, Billington on Swiss Bridges Message-ID: Hello Friends of MIT World, Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu for the latest additions to MIT World. Engineering Systems Division Brunel Lecture Series on Complex Systems presents Thomas L. Magnanti Dean, MIT School of Engineering Institute Professor Professor of Management Science and Electrical Engineering "Engineering Engineering Systems" Dean Magnanti looks at the top engineering achievements of the 20th century as complex technical systems, and considers how Engineering Systems will evolve to serve the next century's challenges. Go directly to the video page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/233/ This is the third Brunel Lecture on MIT World. See the others at http://mitworld.mit.edu/series/13/. *********************** The MIT Museum presents David P. Billington Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering Princeton University "The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy" This lecture showcases the work of Robert Maillart, Othmar Ammann, Heinz Isler and Christian Menn, and illustrates a Swiss tradition of 20th century bridge building. Go directly to the video page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/232/ See the exhibit at the Compton Gallery, now through December 30, 2004. http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/compton.html IN THE PIPELINE Technology Review The Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT Tim Berners-Lee Opening Keynote 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. -- 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/20041101/66492db8/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Nov 2 09:29:29 2004 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:29:29 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] News: Akamai distributes MIT World videos Message-ID: November 2, 2004 Dear Friends of MIT World, With the arrival of our fourth season, we want to share some new features at MIT World. First, you can now access MIT World directly from the MIT home page. Find it under the Education heading, next to OpenCourseWare. Click on "video" and go directly to MIT World. Second, the video content (which now includes more than 215 video events) is being distributed via Akamai's 15,000 servers worldwide. Akamai operates the world's largest distributed network of its kind - with servers in 65 countries. Our international visitors, as well as those of you outside of Massachusetts will now be able to access the video content from a server local to where you are on the Web. This change will make the video stream more robust, and enable us to handle increases in traffic and usage. We worked closely with MIT's OpenCourseWare, whose content is also distributed by Akamai, to provide this enhancement. We welcome Akamai as a new partner and thank our colleagues at MIT's OpenCourseWare for their assistance. The email announcements that you receive from MIT World will soon be reformatted. The new format will have new features including announcements about upcoming MIT sponsored conferences, publications and events, and links to our partners. The new email is being designed by Barrett Communications and will be deployed later this fall. All of these changes are in direct response to the thousands of emails we've received with your suggestions and comments. We thank you for your ideas and feedback. Sincerely, The MIT World Team 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. -- 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/20041102/920d6fa2/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Nov 9 15:56:39 2004 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:56:39 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Educational Innovation, Cameron from Cargill, Inc. Message-ID: Hello friends of MIT World, Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu for the latest additions to MIT World. The MIT Alumni Association Alumni Leadership Conference presents "Focus on Educational Innovation" MIT President Charles Vest hosts a lively discussion featuring 3 faculty members whose work demonstrates new ways of thinking about education. MIT Associate Dean of Engineering Dick K. P. Yue discusses MIT's leadership role in creating OpenCourseWare and the global impact of a movement toward openness and sharing knowledge. Shigeru Miyagawa discusses the Star Project, designed to help younger students understand their own cultural identities. Henry Jenkins makes the case for more and better video games and demonstrates a new project called Revolution. Go directly to the video page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/234/. ******************** MIT Department of Chemical Engineering Frontiers in Biotechnology Lecture Series presents Douglas C. Cameron Director of Biotechnology Cargill, Inc. "The Emergence of a 'Renewable Feedstock-Based' Chemical Industry" In this talk, Cameron discusses how a crops such as corn, wheat, soy, sunflower and other staples have multiple biotech applications. Go directly to the video page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/235/. IN THE PIPELINE authors at MIT "Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities" Charles M. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20041109/3b4ca6a4/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Nov 18 12:14:56 2004 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:14:56 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Tim Berners-Lee, Nobel Laureate Wilczek Message-ID: Hello Friends of MIT World, Go to http://mitworld.mit.edu for the latest additions to MIT World. Technology Review The Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT presents Tim-Berners Lee Senior Research Scientist Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) Director, World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) Tim Berners-Lee provides a new vision for the web-- the "semantic web" a way of indexing and linking together different kinds of web content. This fast paced Keynote speech includes a Q&A session with Bob Metcalfe, Founder of 3Com Corporation. At 48:03, the creator of the ethernet asks the inventor of the internet, "what web browser do you use"? MIT World will provide more videos from this conference in December. **************************** MIT Physics Department presents Frank Wilczek Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT 2004 Nobel Laureate 2004 Nobel Colloquium A day after receiving the early morning phone call from Stockholm, Wilczek explains the "strong force", his breakthrough discovery that earned him the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics. This is the third video lecture by Wilczek on MIT World, see The Origins of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity and the World's Numerical Recipe. IN THE PIPELINE MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice Science, Technology and Human Rights Series "Human Cloning, Stem Cells and Human Health: Promises and Perils" Rudolph Jaenisch Sponsor Coming in December from the MIT Industrial Liaison Program: 2004 MIT Research & Development Conference: R&D 2005-2010: Challenges and Opportunities December 7-8, 2004 The annual MIT R&D Conference showcases MIT's leadership role in science and technology. R&D professionals throughout industry gather to hear first-hand how MIT faculty and researchers are creating and shaping new fields in infotechnology, biotechnology nanotechnology, and more. This year's program focuses on R&D challenges and opportunities for the second half of the decade, with general sessions on space research, nanotechnology, technology commercialization and licensing. Attendees will choose from seven concurrent technology tracks including: medical imaging, sensors and control, mechatronics, unmanned vehicles, portable power, intelligent soldier nanotechnology, and new directions in materials. Online agenda, brochure and registration at: http://ilp-www.mit.edu/events/RD2004-MITW/. 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