From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 2 15:13:04 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:13:04 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Sheffi's Resilient Enterprise, Garrett on Avian Flu
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[THE RESILIENT ENTERPRISE: OVERCOMING VULNERABILITY FOR COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE]
Disaster can cause come companies to thrive and others to fail. Sheffi
explains how companies can respond to supply chain disruption by
building in flexibility before disaster strikes. A post 9/11 must read.
SPEAKER:
Yossi Sheffi
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering
Systems
Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"If you build in the ability to respond quickly to disruption you build
in the ability to, whether you like it or not, to respond quickly to the
marketplace."
--Yossi Sheffi
EVENT HOST: authors at mit
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[SCIENTIFIC, HEALTH AND POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AN AVIAN FLU PANDEMIC]
Pulitzer Prize winning writer Laurie Garrett speaks with authority,
conviction and insight about the real dangers of an avian flu, pandemic
in this sobering and troubling talk. Marc Lipsitch, Associate Professosr
at the Harvard School of Public Health responds.
SPEAKER:
Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"The likely death toll (from the avian flu) would dwarf all but
thermonuclear threats....This flu is lethal to the healthiest. It
mirrors the 1918 great pandemic, which killed somewhere between 40 and
100 million people in 18 months circumnavigating the planet three times
in the absence of commercial air travel."
--Laurie Garrett
EVENT HOST: Center for International Studies
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IN THE PIPELINE:
MIT Response to Hurricane Katrina
Big Questions after Big Hurricanes
[HOW CAN WE PLAN FOR SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE REGIONS?]
A panel discussion moderated by
Professor Andrew Whittle
MIT Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering
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[2006 MIT LIFE SCIENCES CONFERENCE]
Challenges and Opportunities in Neuroscience
March 14-15, 2006
This day and a half conference is designed for senior researchers,
managers and corporate strategists from the life sciences and healthcare
industries. Each year, this program includes MIT faculty, researchers,
and industry representatives discussing timely and challenging themes in
the broad context of human healthcare advances. This year's conference
will highlight rapidly expanding neuroscience research at MIT.
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 8 16:57:27 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:57:27 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Altshuler on Genetics, Bill Joy on the Six Webs
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[HUMAN GENETICS: OUR PAST AND OUR FUTURE]
In this first Soap Box event, the MIT Museum presents geneticist David
Altshuler in a lively discussion on the social and ethical
considerations surrounding the use of genetic information.
SPEAKER:
David Altshuler
Founding Member, and Director of the Program in Medical and
Population Genetics, Broad Institute
Associate Professor, Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"There's both tremendous benefit and risk to our work. We feel most
comfortable studying disease. But what would it mean to find genes for
other traits?"
--David?Altshuler
EVENT HOST: MIT Museum
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[THE SIX WEBS, 10 YEARS ON]
Bill Joy reflects on the six webs--defined as far, near, here, weird,
B2B, and D2D--as an ongoing organizing principle for thinking about the
internet.
SPEAKER:
Bill Joy
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Former Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"In 1994, we put a wireless network over the city of Aspen....It was a
strange experience then, at a point when no one had seen the internet or
web, to walk into a bar, open a notebook computer and be surfing the
web."
--Bill?Joy
EVENT HOST: Technology Review
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IN THE PIPELINE:
MIT Sloan School of Management
Dean's Innovative Leader Series
Peter H. Diamandis, MD
Chairman and CEO
The X PRIZE Foundation
[FROM SPACE TO ENERGY: CHANGING THE WORLD. FOR GOOD]
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MANAGING THE EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN: BEYOND PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY
Globalization and technological innovation are driving the creation of
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April 2-7, 2006
November 5-10, 2006
More information
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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.
For a complete listing of 2006 courses, visit the
MIT Professional Institute
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Feb 14 10:00:02 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:00:02 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Gary Hart on War on Terror,
Ray Kurzweil on the Flat World
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[REPORT CARD ON THE WAR ON TERROR]
Former U.S. Senator and national security expert Gary Hart hosts Daniel
Benjamin and Steve Simon as they discuss their recent book "The Next
Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it
Right."
MODERATOR:
Gary Hart
Former Colorado Senator and one-time presidential candidate
Co-Chair, Hart-Rudman Commission on Homeland Security in the 21st
Century (1998-2001)
PANELISTS:
Daniel Benjamin
Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic &
International Studies
Steven Simon
Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"We're so thoroughly hated that moderates won't stand with us. We need
allies. We need people to go back to believing America as an upholder of
ideals it was not too long ago."
--Daniel?Benjamin
EVENT HOST: Center for International Studies
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[INNOVATION EVERYWHERE--HOW THE ACCELERATION OF "GNR" (GENETICS,
NANOTECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS) WILL CREATE A FLAT AND EQUITABLE WORLD]
Inventor Ray Kurzweil demonstrates how the rate of change in
technological progress is increasing at a dizzying pace, and looks to
the next 15 years as ones filled with great promise to solve some of the
world's most complex challenges.
SPEAKER:
Raymond Kurzweil
Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
Author, The Singularity is Near
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Because of the exponential nature of exponential growth, we'll see
20,000 years of progress in the 21st century, about 1000 times greater
than the 20th century."
--Ray?Kurzweil
EVENT HOST: Technology Review
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IN THE PIPELINE:
MIT Sloan School of Management
Dean's Innovative Leader Series
Lawrence K. Fish
Chairman and CEO
Citizens Financial Group
[NOT YOUR TYPICAL CEO]
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[LEADING CHANGE IN COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS]
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June 4-9, 2006
For more information, see the course description
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Coming in April from the MIT Industrial Liaison Program,
2006 MIT Information Technology Conference:
[NEXT GENERATION COMPUTING AND WIRELESS NETWORKS]
The MIT IT Conference will present research from MIT laboratories that
will define future directions in IT and networks--technologies that will
impact industry, commerce and the way we live. Talks and demonstrations
include secure access to information, new intelligent interfaces, wired
and wireless high-performance networks, very large-scale distributed
computing, tools for reliability of large systems, managing IT
resources, deriving value from IT investments, and new applications that
will drive the technologies on the horizon.
Online agenda, brochure and registration
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PARTNERS
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