From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Fri Apr 7 13:48:13 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:48:13 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Kaiser on the Kennedy Center,
Kraft on Mission Control
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[REINVENTING THE KENNEDY CENTER]
Kaiser gives an insider's view of the realities of running large
non-profit arts organizations in this interview filled with wisdom,
insight and candor. He explains that "measuring success in the for
profit world is so much simpler than in the non-profit world?because
success is not measured by financials."
SPEAKER:
Michael Kaiser
President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
PLAY NOW:
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"The trick to turnaround in the arts is that you scrimp on
everything but what goes on stage--your product and the way you
market it."
--Michael Kaiser
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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[MISSION CONTROL OPERATIONS]
Kraft provides a very human story about the early days of space
exploration from his experience as flight director of the Mercury and
Gemini missions and gives his perspective on the challenges facing space
exploration today.
SPEAKER:
Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.
First NASA Flight Director and Former Director, Johnson Space Center
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"We decided we were going to put a man in space. It was a daunting
task, but one which most of us realized from the get-go that we were
probably in the middle of man's greatest adventure. We were in what you
might call an engineering euphoria."
--Chris Kraft
EVENT HOST: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Annual Public Lecture
Michael Griffin
NASA Administrator
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Fri Apr 14 11:51:01 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:51:01 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Picower Panel on Memory, Morris Chang at Sloan
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[CHANGE YOUR MIND: MEMORY AND DISEASE]
In Part 2 of the Picower Institute?s Inaugural Symposium, panelists
discuss research on how various diseases can affect memory.
MODERATOR:
Ira Flatow
Host/Executive Producer, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday
SPEAKERS:
Thomas Insel
Director, National Institute of Mental Health
Li-Huei Tsai
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Kerry Ressler
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Emory University School of Medicine
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[QUOTE]
"Part of the power of modern neuroscience is not just that we now know
that mental life is neural life-that you can find evidence of neural
activity-but can interrogate the brain to find out how it makes sense,
and categorizes the world-how information is processed."
-Thomas Insel
EVENT HOST: Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
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[KEYNOTE ADDRESS (3)]
In this final presentation from Sloan?s Convocation, Morris Chang shares
his insights into business strategy and what he has learned running the
largest silicon foundry in the world.
SPEAKER:
Morris Chang
Chairman and CEO, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"There is a Chinese proverb: You would jump into boiling oil, walk
through fire for the person you love, and the person you love is our
customer. We started to tell customers and show them we'd jump into
boiling oil, walk through fire, for them. It became our corporate
culture."
-Morris Chang
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Apr 27 14:47:21 2006
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:47:21 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New Picower Institute: Expand Your Mind, Lynd on Biomass
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[EXPAND YOUR MIND: GETTING A GRASP ON CONSCIOUSNESS]
Philosophy meets neurobiology in this final panel from the Picower
Inaugual.
MODERATOR:
Ira Flatow
Host/Executive Producer, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday
SPEAKERS:
Alexander Shulgin
Pharmacologist and Chemist
Christof Koch
Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology,
California Institute of Technology
Patricia Churchland
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Let's treat consciousness as an empirical problem to be tackled by the
biological sciences."
--Christof Koch
EVENT HOST: Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
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[THE ROLE OF BIOMASS IN AMERICA'S ENERGY FUTURE]
As the price of gasoline tops $3 a gallon, Lynd presents his vision for
conversion to biofuels in an agricultural process that would meet both
food and energy needs.
SPEAKER:
Lee R. Lynd
Professor of Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biology, Thayer School
of Engineering and Department of Biology, Dartmouth College
Professor Extraordinary of Microbiology at the University of
Stellenbosch in South Africa
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"There are hazards to driving with your low beams on. Sustainability and
energy security pose such serious problems that if we only drive with
our low beams, we may get so close to precipitous events that we may
have few options, or graceful options left."
--Lee R. Lynd
EVENT HOST: Energy Research Council
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IN THE PIPELINE:
MIT Energy Research Council Colloquia
Amory Lovins
Co-Founder and CEO
Rocky Mountain Institute
[WINNING THE OIL ENDGAME]
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