From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Jan 5 16:36:49 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:36:49 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Revolutionary Thinking, Ancona on Leadership
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[THE POWER OF REVOLUTIONARY THINKING: WHAT TODAY'S SCIENTISTS CAN TEACH
YOU ABOUT DRIVING INNOVATION IN YOUR ORGANIZATION]
Whether finding new forms of life in caves, exploring space in a Biosuit
system or creating a real space elevator, these inspiring scientists
talk about research that is truly revolutionary.
MODERATOR:
Alf Nucifora
Chairman, Nucifora Consulting Group
Marketing Consultant
PANELISTS:
Penelope Boston
Director of Cave and Karst Studies and Professor of Earth and
Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology
Dava Newman
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering
Systems, MIT
Bradley Carl Edwards
President and Founder, Carbon Designs
PLAY NOW:
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"Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations in
the nature of reality. On the artist side, there's Picasso, a free
thinker. Compare Picasso with Einstein. Each visualizes something before
creating an equation or putting paintbrush to canvas."
--Robert Cassanova
EVENT HOST: MIT Enterprise Forum
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[LEADERSHIP IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY]
Sloan's Ancona hosts a discussion with heads of two very different
companies, who explain how leadership can be distributed throughout an
organization.
MODERATOR:
Deborah G. Ancona
Seley Distinguished Professor of Management; Faculty Director, MIT
Leadership Center
PANELISTS:
James Parker
Former C.E.O. and Vice-Chairman of the Board, Southwest Airlines
Company
Barbara Stocking
Director General, Oxfam, Great Britain
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"You have to recognize that if you allow people to make decisions,
they'll make mistakes. The natural tendency is to want to control
everything. People who rose to the top level of an organization got
there by being perfectionists. We must accept that in a world of chaos,
not everything will be perfect."
--James Parker
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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Professor of Atmospheric Science
MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Jan 11 13:34:42 2006
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:34:42 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Hawkins, Ford
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[CAN A NEW THEORY OF THE NEOCORTEX LEAD TO TRULY INTELLIGENT MACHINES?]
PalmPilot creator Hawkins turns his attention to understanding the
brain's higher functions, in order to create better thinking machines.
SPEAKER:
Jeff Hawkins
Chief Technical Officer, Palm Inc.
Co-founder, Numenta
Executive Director and Chairman,
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience,
University of California, Berkeley
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"We can go beyond biology, and make systems faster. With neurons and
silicon there's about a million-fold difference in performance. Brains
are actually made of really slow components. We should be able to make
these things run a lot faster than biology."
--Jeff Hawkins
EVENT HOST: Technology Review
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[REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO RE-ENERGIZE THE PLANNING
PROFESSION?]
Ford provides valuable insight into the realities on the ground in New
Orleans, and argues for a plan to rebuild it that honestly reflects the
character of her native city.
SPEAKER:
Kristina Ford
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College
Former Executive Director,
New Orleans City Planning Commission
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"We should try to work with history to reveal the cultural roots of
this vibrant, wonderful and important city and not end up with some
imitation, pale simulacrum, Orlando-version of what the French Quarter
used to be."
-- Kristina Ford
EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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[HUMAN GENETICS: OUR PAST AND OUR FUTURE]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Fri Jan 20 18:37:07 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:37:07 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Lewin on Electricity, Emanuel on Hurricanes
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[THE WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM]
For Lewin's 100th online lecture, he pulls out all the stops in this
high voltage performance before a live audience.
SPEAKER:
Walter Lewin
Professor of Physics, MIT
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"When I stick my fingers in an electric outlet at home, I can kill
myself. The reason is that, with 110 volts, the resistance of Walter
Lewin is too low. I get a high current, and that's the end of Walter
Lewin."
-- Walter Lewin
EVENT HOST: http://web.mit.edu/museum/
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[WHAT DOES CURRENT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE PRESENT AND
FUTURE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANES?]
In Part Four of this series, Emanuel discusses the challenges of
predicting hurricane paths, and what affect climate changes will have in
wind intensity and destructive potential of future hurricanes.
SPEAKER:
Kerry Emanuel
Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"We have a bad time predicting in real time when and where hurricanes
will develop. It's not even easy to state over a long period of time
what the
probability is."
-- Kerry Emanuel
EVENT HOST: MIT Response to Hurricane Katrina
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Soap Box Series Presents
Rodney Brooks
[ROBOTICS IN SPACE EXPLORATION]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Fri Jan 27 17:08:48 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:08:48 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Tomorrow's Engineering Crisis, Fiorina at Sloan
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[TOMORROW'S ENGINEERING CRISIS]
Two prominent deans of engineering and two top-level executives discuss
the future of engineering education and careers--a sobering assessment in
a must-see presentation.
SPEAKER:
MODERATOR:
Howard Anderson
William Porter Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, MIT
Sloan
PANELISTS:
Kristina M. Johnson
Dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
Jeffrey M. Nick
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation
Sophie V. Vandebroek
Chief Engineer and Vice President, Xerox Engineering Center, Xerox
Corporation
Thomas L. Magnanti
Dean, MIT School of Engineering
Institute Professor
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"There's a direct translation between engineering in sciences and math,
and GDP. We're a country of innovation and technology and if we don't
continue to invest as the rest of the world ramps up dramatically, we'll
see a double whammy: we're decreasing in focus and they're increasing in
focus, and that has nothing to do with the raw economics of it."
--Jeffrey M. Nick
EVENT HOST: Technology Review
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[CONVOCATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS (2)]
Fiorina reflects on her experiences at Sloan and the value of a
multidisciplinary education, particularly in today's complex global
business environment. In the Q&A, she contemplates life after HP.
SPEAKER:
Carly Fiorina
Former Chairman and CEO Hewlett-Packard
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"We've seen in Katrina, and 9/11 that problems arise through lack of
horizontal collaboration, and can't be solved simply through vertical
chains of command."
--Carly Fiorina
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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IN THE PIPELINE:
TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Emerging Technologies Conference 2005
Bill Joy
Former Chief Scientist
Sun Microsystems
[THE SIX WEBS]
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