From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 4 15:54:09 2007 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:54:09 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Sir Jonathan Sacks on the Dignity of Difference, Daniel Pauly on Fisheries and Global Warming Message-ID: <1241554.VPDLIDTO@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 15 | December 4, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [THE DIGNITY OF DIFFERENCE] SPEAKER: Jonathan Sacks Chief Rabbi, United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Politicians haven't recognized that we're in a battle of ideas, not of armies." -- Sir Jonathan Sacks EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [FISHERIES AND GLOBAL WARMING: IMPACTS ON MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD SECURITY] SPEAKER: Daniel Pauly Professor and Director, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "The normalization of catch-per-effort has to take into account the fact that technology -- GPS and various devices -- is making boats about 4.5% more efficient per year." -- Daniel Pauly EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences presents Dr. Paul Farmer Founding Director Partners in Health Global Health Equity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Management Review The Art and Science of Management >From the world's leading management thinkers, teachers, and writers MIT Sloan Management Review brings you research, ideas and opinions on the state of management practice today. 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Bennett IBM Fellow, Yorktown Quantum Information Group, IBM PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Two entangled photons can be said to be in a definite state of sameness even though neither has a polarization of its own....This is an idea that's hard to explain to many people." -- Charles H. Bennett EVENT HOST: Department of Mechanical Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [HUMAN SIMULATIONS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING] This is part one of nine from the full-day symposium, Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong? The entire symposium will be published on MIT World during December 2007, and early 2008. SPEAKERS: Michael Coen Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin-Madison Lila Gleitman Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "It's probably not very realistic to suppose there's no biological given in a language learning situation. There's plenty." -- Lila Gleitman EVENT HOST: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Sloan School of Management Dean's Innovative Leader Series presents Dr. Jim Yong Kim Bridging the Delivery Gap to the Global Health ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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SPEAKER: Paul Levy President and Chief Executive Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Medicine remains for the most part a cottage industry. It's one to one like the shoe repairman in Old Sturbridge Village, making shoes for you...The nurse looks at you and treats you or the doctor does. Maybe a consultant comes in, but it's one to one again. There's virtually nothing about a medical education that teaches a systems approach to problems." -- Paul Levy EVENT HOST: Engineering Systems Division ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL HARVEST] In part 4 of this series, Cynthia Rosenzweig discusses climate change and its affect on the global harvest. SPEAKER: Cynthia Rosenzweig Senior Researcher, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Despite posing tremendous challenges, climate change is a transformative issue by which agricultural sustainability may be achieved." -- Cynthia Rosenzweig EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong? Noam Chomsky MIT Institute Professor Professor of Linguistics The Biology of the Language Faculty: Its Perfection, Past and Future ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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Prinn TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Director, Center for Global Change Science; Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We don't have another planet to play around with." -- Ron Prinn EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL HARVEST] In part 4 of this series, Cynthia Rosenzweig discusses climate change and its affect on the global harvest. SPEAKER: Cynthia Rosenzweig Senior Researcher, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Twentieth century linguistics was mistakenly searching for homogeneity in language, under the misguided assumption that only homogenous systems can be structured." -- Christopher Manning EVENT HOST: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nuclear Science and Engineering presents Thomas A. Christopher President and CEO, AREVA NP Inc. The U.S. Energy Crisis and the Role of New Nuclear Plants ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 - DCAD 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/20071228/9542a4a6/attachment.htm