From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Aug 4 16:15:53 2005 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:15:53 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Barnett on Airline Safety, Panel on Angel Investing Message-ID: <841615.IPWGRYDK@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 4 | number 35 | August 8, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 PLAY NOW: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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"] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Knowledge updates New from MIT: Knowledge Updates EDUCATIONAL BRIEFINGS FOR PROFESSIONALS AND ACADEMICS * Digital briefings bring MIT learning to your home or office * Designed to bring busy professionals up to speed on complex science and engineering topics * KUs give you access to: video presentations by MIT professors, supporting articles, industry information, resources and more * Ideal for executives, consultants, lawyers, educators, journalists and marketing and sales teams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE PIPELINE: The Chandra Astrophysics Institute presents **Walter Lewin** Professor of Physics, MIT ["THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT"] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Knowledge updates New from MIT: Knowledge Updates EDUCATIONAL BRIEFINGS FOR PROFESSIONALS AND ACADEMICS * Digital briefings bring MIT learning to your home or office * Designed to bring busy professionals up to speed on complex science and engineering topics * KUs give you access to: video presentations by MIT professors, supporting articles, industry information, resources and more * Ideal for executives, consultants, lawyers, educators, journalists and marketing and sales teams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Technology Review New from MIT: Knowledge Updates TECHNOLOGY REVIEW'S 5TH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE AT MIT Network with top industry leaders and see cutting-edge technologies at Technology Review's annual 2-day Summit. Register by August 15th 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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[SPEAKERS] **Hazel Sive** Member, Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology, MIT PLAY NOW: Quote: "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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Technology Review New from MIT: Knowledge Updates TECHNOLOGY REVIEW'S 5TH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE AT MIT Network with top industry leaders and see cutting-edge technologies at Technology Review's annual 2-day Summit. Register by August 15th 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] 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 software. MIT faculty will review in-process innovations at the Institute, inviting participants to assess potential business opportunities for their organizations, as well as the associated risks and costs of development. October 18-19, 2005 Online agenda, brochure and registration ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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