From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Mon Jan 8 12:09:14 2007 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:09:14 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Mulcahy on Xerox, Lander on the Genome and Cancer Message-ID: <18129.HYVRLPUD@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 17 | January 8, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [LEADERSHIP LESSONS LEARNED ON THE FIRING LINE] Mulcahy provides a first person account of the turnaround at Xerox. SPEAKER: Anne M. Mulcahy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Xerox Corporation PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "When people ask me how this company (Xerox Corporation) made so much progress so quickly, I think they want to hear there was something particularly brilliant about the strategy or planning. The reality is, it's the alignment of people around a common set of goals. If you're a big company, it's the only way to deliver progress quickly. Otherwise, it looks good but doesn't stick." -- Anne Mulcahy EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [CANCER RESEARCH IN THE GENOMIC ERA] Lander discusses how knowledge of the human genome is being used to explore the fundamental causes of cancer. SPEAKER: Eric S. Lander Professor of Biology Founding Director, The Broad Institute Member, Whitehead Institute Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Students at MIT in 2020 will look back with a mixture of amusement and horror at the late 20th century: 'Imagine, people spent years looking for the gene for something. How antediluvian.' They won't be able to imagine what science was like before they had all the tools laid out in front of them." -- Eric Lander EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Sloan School of Management Dean's Innovative Leader Series Carly Fiorina Tough Choices ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Management Review [THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MANAGEMENT] >From the world's leading management thinkers, teachers, and writers Every quarter MIT Sloan Management Review brings you research, ideas and opinions on the state of management practice today. 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Moniz Co-Chair, MIT Energy Research Council Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Co-director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "If you took all the ice off of Greenland, melted it, and put it in the ocean, you're talking about seven meters of sea level rise: say goodbye to Cape Cod, southern Florida, a lot of Manhattan. It's maybe not a very probable event but we don't know enough to rule it out and it keeps us awake." -- Kerry Emanuel EVENT HOST: MIT Museum [QUOTE] "If the distance between each DNA base pair were one foot apart, to divide, a cell would have to copy 568 thousand miles of DNA. That's enough to go around the circumference of the earth over 22 times. And it must copy this much DNA with no errors." -- Michael Yaffe EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Creativity: The Mind, Machines, and Mathematics David Gelernter vs. Ray Kurzweil A debate on the limits of intelligent machines ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Management Review [THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MANAGEMENT] >From the world's leading management thinkers, teachers, and writers Every quarter MIT Sloan Management Review brings you research, ideas and opinions on the state of management practice today. 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SPEAKERS: Angela Belcher Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Biological Engineering Daniel Nocera W. M. Keck Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "What will be the oil of the future, my nirvana? The answer is deceptively simple: water plus light." -- Daniel Nocera EVENT HOST: MIT Museum [QUOTE] "Science fiction is like a flight simulator where you can try things out without dying." -- Joe Haldeman EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Sloan School of Management Sustainability at Sloan presents Carol Sanford CEO, InterOctave Sustainability is only Half the Solution, Regeneration is the Other Half ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] Partners in Executive Education [MANAGING THE EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN: BEYOND PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY] Globalization and technological innovation are driving the creation of extended enterprises -- dynamic networks of interconnected organizations, from suppliers' suppliers to customers' customers -- and necessitating new ways of doing business. 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Heywood Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director, Sloan Automotive Laboratory Co-Director, Lab for 21st Century Energy Stephen Ansolabehere Elting R. Morison Professor of Political Science PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We conserve wealth. Most of us don't spend all our money before we die. We want to hand it on to our children. Why don't we think that way about the environment -- think of handing on a decent environment?" -- John Heywood EVENT HOST: Soapbox ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [OPENING KEYNOTE AND KEYNOTE INTERVIEW WITH JEFF BEZOS] Bezos returns to MIT with an array of new web scale computing services, including Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service and Elastic Compute Cloud. SPEAKER: Jeffrey Bezos Founder and CEO of Amazon.com PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Here's a dirty secret: Up to 70% of the time, energy and dollars for web scale applications goes into undifferentiated, heavy lifting, infrastructure. I call this heavy lifting muck. The thing about muck, you have to do it at the highest quality level." -- Jeff Bezos EVENT HOST: Technology Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Creativity: The Mind, Machines, and Mathematics presents B. Jack Copeland Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, University of Canterbury Alan Turing: Codebreaker and AI Pioneer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Executive Education [DRIVING STRATEGIC INNOVATION] Achieving Breakthrough Performance Throughout the Value Chain Join senior MIT and IMD faculty for an intense week focused on managing innovation. This unique executive program integrates technology and innovation strategy with the tools needed to help manage the innovation process from concept to commercialization. "This was one of the best educational experiences I've ever had. The faculty created an exciting environment for understanding innovation." Jos? 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