From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Mon Sep 19 12:13:58 2005
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:13:58 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Interdisciplinary Research at MIT
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[Interdisciplinary Research at MIT: Making Uncommon Connections]
MIT Vice President for Research Alice Gast hosts this symposium
featuring professors of writing, environmental studies, chemistry and
mechanical engineering. This is the first of two symposia held in
celebration of the Inauguration of Susan Hockfield, 16th President of
MIT.
[SPEAKERS]
**Speakers:**
**Alice P. Gast**
Vice President for Research and Associate Provost
**Rosalind H. Williams**
Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing
**Sallie (Penny) Chisholm**
The Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies MIT
**Moungi G. Bawendi**
Professor of Chemistry
**Alexander H. Slocum**
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"If all human beings looking at the ocean started to think of the ocean
as providing a service--maintaining the planet--we'd start to evolve
thinking about the planet in a different way."
-- Penny Chisholm
EVENT HOST: The Inauguration Committee
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IN THE PIPELINE:
**Industrial Liaison Program presents**
** John Chambers**
Chairman & CEO, Cisco Systems
[** "From Transactions to Interactions: The Next-Generation of
Productivity"]
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[**MIT Research and Development Conference**]
"Innovation for Industry"
This annual conference will showcase cutting-edge research and
disruptive technologies essential to the R&D professional. MIT faculty,
researchers, and industry leaders will share the results of new research
at MIT that is relevant to the future of many industries. In addition to
two general sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to choose
among several concurrent technology tracks with themes that include:
**homeland security, human/machine interface, new materials,
manufacturing and productivity, photonics, and wireless networks and
devices.**
**November
2-3, 2005**
[Online agenda, brochure and registration]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Sep 20 14:13:58 2005
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:13:58 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld]
Subject line: New: Art and Technology, Chomsky and Long on Vietnam
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[ART AND TECHNOLOGY]
Associate Provost for the Arts Alan Brody moderates this talk focused on
how art has affected technology and how technology has changed art.
[SPEAKERS]
**Speakers:**
**Alan Brody**
Associate Provost for the Arts
**Evan Ziporyn**
Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music
**Jay Scheib**
Assistant Professor of Theater
**Krzysztof Wodiczko**
Director of the Center of Art, Culture and Technology
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Every crisis is an opportunity. I feel that some of the best music I've
written in the last ten years has been made either in compensation for
mistakes I've made in regard to the computer, or mistakes the computer
has made, or through a deliberate misuse of computer technology"
-- Evan Ziporyn
EVENT HOST: The Inauguration Committee
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[VIETNAM REMEMBERED]
Ngo Ving Long and Noam Chomsky reflect on the Vietnam War on the date
considered the anniversary of the "end" of the war, with poignant and
somber reminders of the horrors of war, both past and present.
[SPEAKERS]
**Speakers:**
**Ngo Ving Long**
Professor of History, University of Maine
**Noam Chomsky**
Institute Professor;
Professor of Linguistics
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"What's the point of speaking truth to power? .... Try to do what a good
teacher does--encourage people to figure things out for themselves and
do something about it. Engage with others. Use whatever good fortune you
have--privilege, resources, training--to help people figure out the
truth for themselves"
-- Noam Chomsky
EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum at MIT]
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IN THE PIPELINE:
**MIT Poverty Action Lab presents**
**Muhammad Yunus**
Founder and Managing Director
Grameen Bank
[** "Ending Global Poverty"**]
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[**Coming in November from the MIT Industrial Liaison Program**]
Achieving Growth Through Strategic Innovation
Brussels Conference
**Charlemagne Building, European Commission Brussels, Belgium**
Co-organized by Agoria, this conference will provide an important forum
for European business leaders and government authorities to discuss
innovation policy and to review approaches to fostering innovation at
the national, regional and organizational levels. MIT faculty and
industry speakers will focus on current and future innovation
mechanisms, evaluate measures designed to support innovation, and
present specific innovation opportunities for an aging population.
**November
14-15, 2005**
[Online agenda, brochure and registration]
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MIT Learning International Networks Consortium
**"Impacting Economic Development Through E-Learning"**
This year's LINC Symposium will focus on the impact of
technology-enabled education on global economic development, especially
through group learning, regional collaborations, and across
international borders. In addition to MIT speakers, there will be
presentations from educational leaders from Latin America, Africa, the
Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. Participants will leave the
program with insights into current best practices of educational
technology, and ideas on how to create and sustain learning communities
across pedagogical, technological, economical and social borders. The
program fosters a collaborative environment for scholars, researchers,
funders, and entrepreneurs.
Register by September and save $50.
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Sep 28 13:25:01 2005
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:25:01 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Yunus on Global Poverty, Panel on Forced Labor
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[ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY]
Muhammad Yunus provides an overview of the revolutionary microcredit
system he created, making small loans to the world's poorest people.
[SPEAKERS]
**Speakers:**
**Muhammad Yunus**
Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank
Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Poverty is created by institutions we built--banking is one--the
policies we pursue, concepts in classrooms. If you want to get poverty
out of the world, we must redesign concepts, those theoretical
structures. If you fix those things, nobody will be poor."
-- Muhammad Yunus
EVENT HOST: Poverty Action Lab
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[FORCED LABOR IN THE GLOBALIZED WORLD]
Tom Ashbrook moderates this first of two panels on forced labor that
considers issues of child labor, international law, multinational
corporate governance, activism and competition.
[SPEAKERS]
**Moderator:**
**Tom Ashbrook**
Host, On Point, WBUR-FM, Boston
**PANELISTS:**
**Terry Collingsworth**
Executive Director, International Labor Rights Fund
**Regina Abrami**
Assistant Professor, Business, Government and the International Economy
Harvard Business School
**Roger Plant**
Head of the Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor, International
Labor Organization
**Thomas Kochan**
George M. Bunker Professor of Management
MIT Sloan
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"I don't think any company does anything unless you make them. Things
that the Gap and Nike are doing are happening because they were hounded
for 15 years by student groups and their brand names started to be
affected by it. Pressure has to remain for companies to take action."
-- Terry Collingsworth
EVENT HOST: Center for International Studies
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IN THE PIPELINE:
**The Energy Research Council and the
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment present**
**Steve Koonin**
Chief Scientist at BP
[** "ENERGY FOR THE COMING DECADES:
TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES"**]
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