From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Oct 11 10:15:45 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:15:45 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Sloan's Frederick on Decision Making,
Panel on Technology and Policy Education
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[INTELLIGENCE, COGNITIVE REFLECTION, AND DECISION MAKING]
Frederick connects IQ to decision making and tolerance for risk.
SPEAKER:
Shane Frederick
Shalaby and Mary Sarofim Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School of
Management
PLAY NOW:
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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[TECHNOLOGY, POLICY AND EDUCATION: EDUCATION FOR LEADERSHIP IN
ENGINEERING]
Panelists advocate for continued reform in engineering education,
underscoring the need for interdisciplinary approaches to complex
systems.
MODERATOR:
Dava Newman
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Director of Technology and Policy Program and MacVicar Faculty Fellow
PANELISTS:
Richard de Neufville
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems
Founding Director, MIT Technology and Policy Program
Sheila Widnall
Institute Professor, and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Joel Moses
Institute Professor and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
and Engineering Systems
Granger Morgan
Lord University Professor and Department Head, Engineering and Public
Policy; Carnegie Mellon University
PLAY NOW:
EVENT HOST: Technology and Policy Program
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MIT Museum
Soap Box Series presents
Nancy Hopkins
Amgen Inc. Professor of Biology
[ZEBRA FISH AND CANCER: WHAT'S THE CONNECTION?]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Mon Oct 16 15:15:12 2006
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:15:12 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Writer David Milch, Sloan's Arnold Barnett
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[TV'S GREAT WRITER]
This dark, edgy and riveting conversation with Milch, sometimes called
television's first "artistic genius" is an intense viewing experience. A
must see.
SPEAKER:
David Milch
Creator, Executive Producer and Writer, DEADWOOD, HBO
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"I believe that the distinction between subject and object is an
illusion. To separate me from what I was working on is to fail to
recognize that I'm a way-station for all kinds of influences that come
in and out."
--David Milch
EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum
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[THREE MORE FOR THE ROAD]
The ever-provocative Barnett applies statistics to understand a range of
timely topics including the Electoral College system, which he describes
as the "funhouse mirror of electoral politics".
SPEAKER:
Arnold I. Barnett
George Eastman Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of
Management
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"If we're going to understand what the problem is, we need to look at
data to distinguish what seems to be true from that which is a matter of
conjecture. "
--Arnold Barnett
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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MIT Cooperative Society presents
Steve Wozniak
Co-Founder, Apple Computer
[IWOZ: FROM COMPUTER GEEK TO CULTURE ICON: HOW I INVENTED THE PERSONAL
COMPUTER, CO-FOUNDED APPLE, AND HAD FUN DOING IT]
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Oct 19 13:48:15 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:48:15 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Fundamentals of Cancer Research
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[FUNDAMENTALS OF CANCER RESEARCH: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW]
This inaugural address lays the groundwork for an 11-part series on
MIT?s efforts in cancer research.
SPEAKERS:
Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Professor of Neuroscience
Robert J. Silbey
Dean, School of Science and Class of 1942 Professor of Chemistry
Tyler Jacks
Director, Center for Cancer Research and David H. Koch Professor of
Biology, MIT Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Better understanding of molecular alterations in cancer has translated
over the years into the development of better drugs. This is the
future."
--Tyler Jacks
EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science
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[INTRODUCTION TO CANCER GENETICS]
Weinberg offers a primer on the process of cancer formation.
SPEAKER:
Robert A. Weinberg
Founding Member, MIT Center for Cancer Research
Member, Whitehead Institute
Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer
Research
Department of Biology
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"We work with the faith that the only way to develop new, rational ways
of treating cancer is to understand what makes cancer cells tick."
--Robert Weinberg
EVENT HOST: MIT Center for Cancer Research
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Fundamentals of Cancer Research will feature additional lectures by
Leona Samson, Jacqueline Lees, Angelika Amon, Richard O. Hynes,
Eric Lander, Douglas Lauffenberger, Michael Yaffe, Jianzhu Chen,
Phillip A. Sharp and Robert Langer. The entire series will be made
available on MIT World in November.
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From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu Oct 26 12:12:27 2006
From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:12:27 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] New: Novartis' Vasella on Innovation, Samson on Cancer
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[LEADING INNOVATION]
Vasella takes us through the development of Gleevec, one of Novartis'
signature products to demonstrate the challenges of modern drug
development.
SPEAKER:
Daniel Vasella
Chairman and CEO, Novartis
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Scientists must have the ambition to discover and bring to patients
better new drugs. They must tolerate failure, because failure is more
often their daily bread than success."
--Daniel Vasella
EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
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[DNA MUTATION, REPAIR AND THE ENVIRONMENT]
In part 3 of this 11-part course, Samson explains how carcinogens can
damage DNA and lead to the growth of cancerous cells.
SPEAKER:
Leona Samson
Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences
Professor of Toxicology, and Biological Engineering
Ellison American Cancer Society Professor
PLAY NOW:
[QUOTE]
"Eventually, we'll be able to take a tumor and know every gene that's
different in that tumor from a normal cell."
--Leona Samson
EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science
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MIT Communications Forum presents a three-part series
Will Newspapers Survive?
Part One: The Emergence of Citizen?s Media
A Panel Discussion featuring Dan Gilmore, Ellen Foley and Alex Beam
Moderated by David Thorburn
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