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 Message-ID: <151636.LAXNTTER@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 6 | number 1 | January 5, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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: [QUOTE] "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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE PIPELINE: MIT Response to Katrina Big Questions after Big Hurricanes [WHAT DOES CURRENT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE PRESENT AND FUTURE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANES?] Kerry A. Emanuel Professor of Atmospheric Science MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. 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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE PIPELINE: MIT Museum Soap Box Series Presents David Altshuler [HUMAN GENETICS: OUR PAST AND OUR FUTURE] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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... 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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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE PIPELINE: MIT Museum Soap Box Series Presents Rodney Brooks [ROBOTICS IN SPACE EXPLORATION] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20060120/1a9078f8/attachment.htm 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 Message-ID: <127178.REJTKUFT@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 5 | number 19 | January 27, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE PIPELINE: TECHNOLOGY REVIEW Emerging Technologies Conference 2005 Bill Joy Former Chief Scientist Sun Microsystems [THE SIX WEBS] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Knowledge updates New from MIT: Knowledge Updates EDUCATIONAL BRIEFINGS FOR PROFESSIONALS AND ACADEMICS * Digital briefings bring MIT learning to your home or office * Designed to bring busy professionals up to speed on complex science and engineering topics * KUs give you access to: video presentations by MIT professors, supporting articles, industry information, resources and more * Ideal for executives, consultants, lawyers, educators, journalists and marketing and sales teams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/20060127/6f4ce710/attachment.htm