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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:15:53 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Barnett on Airline Safety, Panel on Angel Investing
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[AIRLINE SAFETY AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE]
Airline security expert Arnold Barnett looks at differing mathematical
models to demonstrate the extremely low risk of commercial airline
travel. He uses a similar approach in considering the Electoral College
and the modern voting issues that give us "fly over states" and how
election outcomes could be affected by varying mathematical models.
[SPEAKER]
**Arnold I. Barnett**
George Eastman Professor of Management Science,
MIT Sloan School of Management
PLAY NOW:
Quote:
"At a mortality risk of 1 in 13 million per flight, a passenger who took
one flight per day would on average travel for 36 thousand years before
dying in a plane crash." -- Arnold I. Barnett
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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[ANGEL GROUPS IN ACTION: FUNDING EARLY STAGE INNOVATION]
This panel provides a view into state-of-the-art angel investing, and
explains some of the psychological insights into investor motivation.
[MODERATOR]
**Daniel Roach**
Brown & Brown, LLP
[PANELISTS]
**Jeffrey Sohl**
Director, Center for Venture Research
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences,
Whittemore School of Business and Economics,
University of New Hampshire
**James Geshwiler**
Chairman, Angel Capital Association
Managing Director, CommonAngels
**Edward B. Roberts**
David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology
Chair, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
**Jerry Schaufeld**
Former Director, Slater Fund
Founder and former Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum
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Quote:
"Since the angel has been an entrepreneur, he can look over the hill,
and can say, 'maybe you're burning too much cash'. He can view at a
strategic level, a little bit in advance, while the entrepreneur is
running around like crazy making sure the floor is swept. "
-- Jeffrey Sohl
EVENT HOST: MIT Enterprise Forum
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IN THE PIPELINE:
The Technology and Culture Forum presents
**Ngo Ving Long**
Professor of History, University of Maine
**Noam Chomsky**
MIT Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics
["VIETNAM REMEMBERED"]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Aug 11 18:25:08 2005
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:25:08 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Communications Forum: The Work of Stories
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[MIGRATORY NARRATIVES: WHY SOME STORIES REPLICATE ACROSS MEDIA,
CULTURES, HISTORICAL ERAS]
In Part One of the **Media in Transition: The Work of Stories** series,
panelists discuss how stories and myths endure over time, through
cultures, and across multiple media platforms.
[SPEAKERS]
**William C. Uricchio**
Co-Director, Comparative Media Studies Program and Professor of
Comparative Media Studies, MIT
**Thomas Pettitt**
Associate Professor of English, University of Southern Denmark
**Richard Howells**
Senior Lecturer in Communications Arts and Postgraduate Research Tutor,
Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
**Janet Staiger**
William P. Hobby Centennial Professorship in Communication, University
of Texas, Austin
PLAY NOW:
Quote:
"By still having myths, explaining ourselves in terms of myths we make
about ourselves, we have far more in common with so-called primitive
ancestors separated by time and space, but we all use media at hand to
tell theses enduring migratory narratives."
-- Richard Howells
EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum
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[ANGEL GROUPS IN ACTION: FUNDING EARLY STAGE INNOVATION]
In Part Two of this series, panelists explore the violent nature of
stories and the social consequences of increasing violence in popular
culture.
[WHY ARE STORIES VIOLENT?]
**David Thorburn**
MIT Professor of Literature, MacVicar Faculty Fellow
**Kevin Sandler**
Assistant Professor, Media Industries, The University of Arizona
**Maria Tatar**
Harvard College Professor and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic
Languages and Literatures
PLAY NOW:
Quote:
"What is the "magic art of the Great Humbug" in_ The Wizard of Oz_? The
power of language. He endows the Scarecrow with brains, he makes the
Lion courageous, just by saying so. These stories really enable children
by teaching them they too have the power to change reality--they can do
things with words. "
-- Maria Tatar
EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum
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IN THE PIPELINE:
The Chandra Astrophysics Institute presents
**Walter Lewin**
Professor of Physics, MIT
["THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT"]
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Speakers include: **Nicholas Negroponte**, Chairman of MIT Media
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Microsystems and **Michael Moritz**, General Partner at Sequoia
Capital
September 28-29, 2005 MIT's Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge MA
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Aug 18 16:24:03 2005
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:24:03 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Sive on the Brain, Panel on Narratives of Science
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[FORM FROM THE FORMLESS: THE AWESOME POWER OF THE EMBRYO ]
Sive explores embryonic brain development in the earliest days of life,
and shows an amazing video of zebra fish embryo development.
[SPEAKERS]
**Hazel Sive**
Member, Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology, MIT
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"Things go wrong surprisingly infrequently (in embryos), due to checks
and balances. There are feedback loops, where the embryo does something,
and checks to see if it has done the right thing."
-- Hazel Sive
EVENT HOST: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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[NARRATIVES OF SCIENCE]
In the final panel from this series, writers Kanigel, Levenson, and
Lightman discuss the role of storytelling, travelogues and biography in
the evolution of science writing.
[SPEAKERS]
**Robert Kanigel**
Professor of Science Writing
**Thomas Levenson**
Associate Professor, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies Graduate
Program in Science Writing
**Alan Lightman**
Adjunct Professor of Humanities
PLAY NOW:
Quote:
"In a biography of Beethoven, you'd be writing about the struggle to
compose -- in a way not so different from a scientist's struggle to do
a perfect experiment. If you were living up to the promise of a
biography of a genius, you'd feel the appropriate burden of conveying
the genius of Beethoven's music, just as you would the difficulty of
reflecting the genius of a scientist."
-- Robert Kanigel
EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum
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IN THE PIPELINE:
With these two new videos, MIT World will take a brief hiatus until mid
September. We will be back for the start of our **5th year** with a wide
range of new material including:
* MIT Physics Professor Walter Lewin on "The Mystery of Light"
* Noam Chomsky on the "30th Anniversary of the end of the War in
Vietnam"
* Alice Gast, Penny Chisholm, Rosalind Williams, Moungi Bawendi, and
Alex Slocum on "Interdisciplinary Research at MIT"
* Alan Brody, Jay Scheib, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Evan Ziporyn on "Art
and Technology"
Thanks to our partners, sponsors, and audience for ongoing feedback and
support. See you in September.
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and save $100.
Speakers include: **Nicholas Negroponte**, Chairman of MIT Media
Lab, **Edward Zander**, CEO of Motorola, **Jeff Hawkins**,
Co-founder of Palm, **Bill Joy**, Former Chief Scientist of Sun
Microsystems and **Michael Moritz**, General Partner at Sequoia
Capital
September 28-29, 2005 MIT's Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge MA
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Coming in October from the MIT Industrial Liaison Program
**2005 Aerospace & Defense Industry Conference**
"Enabling Technologies Take Flight"
During this one and a half day program, participants will have
the unique opportunity to learn from and interact with leading
MIT researchers, faculty and industry representatives as they
discuss innovative research topics, including:** mobile robots,
ultra wideband digital receivers, network centric automation and
control, multi-spectral infrared detectors, acoustic synthetic
aperture array sonar, and reusable component-based embedded
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MIT faculty will review in-process innovations at the Institute,
inviting participants to assess potential business opportunities
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October 18-19, 2005
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