From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Aug 1 17:41:57 2007 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 17:41:57 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Jack Welch returns to Sloan, Kenneth Pollack on Iran Message-ID: <811741.PTFREXGB@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 46 | August 1, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [A CONVERSATION WITH JACK WELCH AND ALEX D'ARBELOFF] SPEAKER: Jack Welch Former Chairman and CEO General Electric Corporation PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "It (China) will be a force, it's real. But the ability to have hungry, innovative people matched up with liquidity allows us to have an entrepreneur class unmatched anywhere." --Jack Welch EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [IRAN: WAR OR PEACE?] SPEAKER: Kenneth Pollack Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "One of the things this administration is famous for is its unwillingness to staff hard foreign policy problems. It has a very bad habit of locking the Situation Room door, throwing ideas out on the table and voting for one before anyone has gone back to their staff to think things through, develop various options, recognize ramifications and understand the consequence of their actions." --Kenneth Pollack EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World on iTunes U A small sampling of MIT World videos are now available for download at Apple's iTunes site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Professional Education Programs [OPEN THE DOOR TO AN MIT EDUCATION] MIT Professional Education Programs (PEP) helps professionals stay up-to-date with the latest advances in rapidly changing disciplines, gaining new knowledge and mastering new technologies. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20070801/b63f9244/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Aug 8 19:59:50 2007 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:59:50 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Media in Transition: Collective Intelligence, Forrest on Solar Energy Message-ID: <881959.GVEQYJHB@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 47 | August 8, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [COLLABORATION AND COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE] Now that it's possible to work, politick or party with partners round the world, round the clock, what have we got to show for it? In part 2 of the Media in Transition series, this panel offers some intriguing examples of the potential of internet-driven collectives, as well as some cautionary notes. MODERATOR: Thomas W. Malone Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence PANELISTS: Trebor Scholz Assistant Professor of Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo Cory Ondrejka Chief Technology Officer, Linden Lab Mizuko (Mimi) Ito Research Scientist, USC Annenberg Center for Communication PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Rich media content is becoming the vocabulary through which we traffic and communicate and share, the way we tell other people who we are, our interests, and how we affiliate. I call this process hypersociality: it's social life, sharing, communication, augmented by a dense set of media signifiers." --Mimi Ito EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ELECTRONICS ON PLASTIC: A SOLUTION TO THE ENERGY CHALLENGE, OR A PIPE DREAM?] As urgency to address climate change mounts, there's ever greater interest in harnessing the unlimited potential of the sun to replace fossil fuels. SPEAKER: Stephen R. Forrest Vice President for Research, University of Michigan PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "On the world market today, if you put a gallon of gas in your car, you're paying 10 times less money than if the same energy were supplied through solar, due to the materials, production, packaging, installation and storage cost." --Stephen Forrest EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Friends, With this issue of the MIT World Newsletter, we take a brief hiatus. In this past academic year we published 94 new videos on every topic imaginable, (and some unimaginable); the video collection is now at 449. We pause to get ready for the new year, and to give you time to catch up on a few lectures that you have missed. We thank you for the thousands of emails and on going feedback. This past year we began offering a small sampling of the content on Apple's iTunesU. We will be adding more to the iTunes inventory in the fall. Also, MIT World is now part of video at MIT -- a gateway which showcases three major video publications at MIT -- MIT Tech TV, MIT World and course videos from MIT's OpenCourseWare. Check it out at . We'll be back for our 7th year with new videos from MIT Sloan School of Management's Back to the Classroom series, the Alumni Association's Tech Day 2007, more panels from the Media In Transition 5 series Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age, a lecture from Engineering Systems on the electoral college, and one from the MIT Enterprise Forum on how technology can better serve persons with disabilities. We thank the more than 80 content producing hosts -- from MIT's schools, labs, centers, departments, programs and offices -- whose lectures, panels and symposia are published on MIT World. Thanks to the entire MIT World virtual production team: MIT Libraries' Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), for video capture, production and digitizing, MIT IS&T's Departmental Consulting and Application Development Team (DCAD), for newsletter production, web hosting and technical support, MIT's Publishing Services Bureau for graphics production, RiverRun Media for editorial and research services and Akamai Technologies for global video distribution. Thanks to our sponsors, MIT School of Engineering, MIT Professional Education Programs, The Lord Foundation of Massachusetts and the Office of the Provost at MIT. See you in September. Laurie A. 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