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 Message-ID: <471348.VGKGXBUO@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 5 | Number 28 | April 7, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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: [QUOTE] "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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE PIPELINE: Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium Annual Public Lecture Michael Griffin NASA Administrator [DEVELOPING THE HARDWARE FOR FUTURE HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Professional Education Programs [OPEN THE DOOR TO AN MIT EDUCATION] MIT Professional Education Programs (PEP) helps professionals stay up-to-date with the latest advances in rapidly changing disciplines, gaining new knowledge and mastering new technologies. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20060407/656d8008/attachment.htm 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 Message-ID: <4141151.QSOSSMSJ@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 5 | Number 29 | April 14, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 PLAY NOW: [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE PIPELINE: MIT Communications Forum presents [A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT PINSKY] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] [MIT PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE] 2006 Summer Short Courses Intensive one-week programs: * led by renowned MIT faculty * taught on the MIT campus with MIT resources * geared for busy professionals * designed for in-depth learning * grant MIT certificates and CEUs in biotechnology, chemical engineering, energy, IT, mechanical engineering,MEMS, nanotechnology, physics, technology policy, system architecture, and other topics of vital interest to today's engineers and scientists. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20060414/569a23e7/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Apr 27 14:47:21 2006 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:47:21 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New Picower Institute: Expand Your Mind, Lynd on Biomass Message-ID: <4271447.XFBOVWLF@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 5 | Number 30 | April 27, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. 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