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 Message-ID: <221513.OSMONFEB@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 5 | number 19 | February, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Coming in March from the MIT Industrial Liaison Program [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. Find out more: Online agenda, brochure and registration: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. For a complete listing of 2006 courses, visit the MIT Professional Institute ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. SPONSORS Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services IS&T Web Communications Services Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20060202/a6c20908/attachment.htm 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 Message-ID: <281657.GQLSFXQE@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 5 | number 21 | February 8, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Partners in Executive Education MANAGING THE EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN: BEYOND PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY Globalization and technological innovation are driving the creation of extended enterprises -- dynamic networks of interconnected organizations, from suppliers' suppliers to customers' customers -- and necessitating new ways of doing business. Based on the latest research at MIT and IMD, this unique, one-week program introduces participants to the innovative strategies and tools needed to manage the complexity of today's extended supply chains. April 2-7, 2006 November 5-10, 2006 More information For more information, see the course description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. For a complete listing of 2006 courses, visit the MIT Professional Institute ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. SPONSORS Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services IS&T Web Communications Services Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20060208/28ce9f0a/attachment.htm 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 Message-ID: <214100.IMLEKVKC@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 5 | number 22 | February 15, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Executive Education [LEADING CHANGE IN COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS] To manage for the future and create an organization that is both innovative and adaptive, you must be able to drive change within the organization. But how do you design a change management strategy that is politically acceptable and culturally consistent? And where do you get the power to implement such a strategy? Join senior MIT Sloan faculty for this intensive week-long program that utilizes a unique analytical framework developed at MIT to address the change process from strategic, political, and cultural perspectives. June 4-9, 2006 For more information, see the course description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. SPONSORS Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services IS&T Web Communications Services Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20060214/cc53043d/attachment.htm