From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed May 3 16:04:30 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:04:30 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New Amory Lovins on the Oil Endgame,
Lawrence Fish of Citizens Bank
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[WINNING THE OIL ENDGAME]
Lovins makes the case that the heavy vehicles we design, build and
operate are at the heart of the oil dependency problem. He insists the
technical know-how exists to make all modes of transportation lighter
and more fuel-efficient, and that big, fast change is possible.
SPEAKER:
SPEAKER:
Amory Lovins
Founder and CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"...what if we could make super-efficient vehicles as a byproduct of
breakthrough engineering so people would buy these cars because they're
better?like going to CDs from vinyl records? ...Think of a computer with
wheels, not a car with chips."
--Amory Lovins
EVENT HOST: Energy Research Council
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[NOT YOUR TYPICAL CEO]
In this inspiring talk Fish says that people -customers, colleagues and
community- are at the heart of everything connected to Citizens
Financial Group's success.
SPEAKER:
Lawrence K. Fish
Chairman and CEO, Citizens Financial Group
Member, MIT Corporation
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"I want to be treated nice and fair, and treated that way all the time.
That's what we try and do at the bank."
--Lawrence Fish
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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[INNOVATION THROUGH DESIGN THINKING]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed May 10 17:02:58 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 17:02:58 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: NASA Administrator Griffin and Panel on TV's New
Economics
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[DEVELOPING THE HARDWARE FOR FUTURE HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION]
Griffin outlines NASA's vision to resume human space exploration, and
provides insight into the challenges facing the agency as it prepares to
return to the moon by 2020.
SPEAKER:
Michael Griffin
NASA Administrator
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"We spend seven tenths of one percent of our national budget on space
exploration; fifteen cents for the average person every day. I spend
more than that on chewing gum."
--Michael Griffin
EVENT HOST: Mass Space Grant Consortium
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[TV?S NEW ECONOMICS]
Poltrack provides insight into how CBS is positioning itself in the new
era of web based, nonlinear television. Schement relays fascinating
demographic and historical information about the in-home use of radios,
televisions, computers, as our connected homes become "nodes on a
network".
MODERATOR:
Henry Jenkins
John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities and Director of Comparative
Media Studies Program
PANELISTS:
David F. Poltrack
Executive Vice President, Research and Planning, CBS Television
Jorge Reina Schement
Distinguished Professor of Communications
Professor of Information Sciences and Technologies and Co-Director of
the Institute for Information Policy, College of Communications, The
Pennsylvania State University
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"We focus on technology so much that we miss driving forces that are non
technological. TV arrived just at the right time, when Americans were
forming households, and had little disposable income."
--Jorge Schement
EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum
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[THE IMPLICATIONS OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu May 18 14:48:59 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:48:59 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Robert Pinksy and Enterprise Forum on 2006 Markets
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[A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT PINSKY]
In this wide-ranging conversation with David Thorburn, Robert Pinsky
discusses his collaboration on an opera with Tod Machover at the MIT
Media Lab, his ongoing Favorite Poem Project, and his ideas about poetry
and democratic culture.
SPEAKER:
Robert Pinsky
Professor of English, Boston University
Former U.S. Poet Laureate
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"A lot of people writing free verse badly should not obscure the fact
that it?s possible to write rhyme in meter quite badly."
--Robert Pinksy
EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum
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[FORECASTING MARKETS: THE CAPITAL UPDATE FOR 2006]
The Enterprise Forum provides its annual look into capital markets.
MODERATOR:
Robert Crowley
PANELISTS:
Martin Hensel
President, Texterity, Inc.
Claire Wadlington
Partner & CFO, F.A. Technology Ventures.
C. Edward (Ned) Hazen
Managing Director, Lighthouse Capital Partners
T.L. Stebbins
Head of U.S. Investment Canaccord/Adams
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Trading systems and regulations in U.S. markets have made it more
difficult for companies with market caps of under $250 million."
--T.L. Stebbins
MIT Enterprise Forum
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ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DIVISION
The Annual Charles L. Miller Lecture
Clyde Prestowitz
President, The Economic Strategy Institute
[THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: THE IMPACT OF THE RETURN OF INDIA AND
CHINA TO THEIR HISTORICAL GLOBAL WEIGHT]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Sat May 27 13:13:49 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:13:49 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Donna Brazile,
David Lowry and John Pope at MLK Breakfast
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[DR. KING'S UNFINISHED AGENDA: A CALL FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL JUSTICE IN
THE 21ST CENTURY]
In this riveting talk, this "daughter of the deep South" talks about
politics, power, and poverty and her own family?s struggles in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina.
SPEAKER:
Donna Brazile
Founder and Managing Director of Brazile and Associates, LLC
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"What did you accomplish this year? Well, I got arrested because I was
trying to stop $12.1 billion from being cut from the student loan
program."
--Donna Brazile
EVENT HOST: MIT Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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[STUDENT REMARKS 2006 MLK BREAKFAST]
In this powerful 18-minute presentation David Lowry and John Pope
reflect on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
SPEAKERS:
David Lowry
Anthropology student, MIT '06
John Pope
Former EECS student, MIT
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Have we forgotten that we are only one or two generations removed from
segregation and do we believe that forgetting the past...is the path to
equality today?"
--David Lowry
EVENT HOST: MIT Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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MIT Industrial Liaison Program
CEO Guest Lecture series presents
James Dyson
Inventor and Founder
Dyson Corporation
[THE ART OF ENGINEERING]
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