From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Thu May 3 13:29:48 2007 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:29:48 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Robert Langer on Cancer, Jon Miller on Technology and Entertainment Message-ID: <531329.QYRBICSY@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 34 | May 4, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ENGINEERING NEW APPROACHES TO CANCER DETECTION AND THERAPY] This talk, which concludes the 11-part series on cancer research, deals with Langer's efforts to design materials for safer and more effective cancer treatment. SPEAKER: Robert S. Langer, Jr. Institute Professor and Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "When you're at a place like MIT, you often do speculative work, and when you do speculative work, you're not always greeted that well in the scientific community." -- Robert Langer EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TRENDS IN ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT AND BUSINESS] Miller discusses the explosion in media content: more choices, more venues, more technology platforms, but still only 24 hours in the day. SPEAKERS: Jonathan F. Miller Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AOL LLC Board Member, Next New Networks David Faber Anchor, CNBC's Faber Report and contributor to Squawk on the Street PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Consumers are part of a creative and distributive process now, part of a value chain in a new way. Content becomes the catalyst for new behavior." -- Jonathan Miller EVENT HOST: Technology Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research Laboratory for Electronics RLE 60th Anniversary Colloquia Series-Beyond the Limits presents Sir John Pendry Imperial College The Perfect Lens: Resolution Beyond the Limits of Wavelength ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Professional Institute [2007 SUMMER SHORT COURSES] Intensive programs from 1 to 5 days long: * led by renowned MIT faculty * taught on the MIT campus with MIT resources * geared for busy professionals * designed for in-depth learning * grant certificates and CEUs in biotechnology, chemical engineering, energy, data modeling and analysis, IT, lean fundamentals, mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, nuclear systems, lasers & optics, technology policy, system architecture and other topics of vital interest to today's engineers and scientists. 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That's Jefferson Tester's inescapable conclusion, after participating in a Department of Energy investigation into the technical and economic viability of tapping into this potentially vast energy pool. SPEAKER: Jefferson W. Tester H. P. Meissner Professor of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Department of Chemical Engineering PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Unless you're from Iceland or know about geyser sites and live in Nevada or Arizona, you don't know about geothermal. We're trying to increase awareness that technology of enhancing or engineering (geothermal) systems may not be as far way as we think." -- Jefferson W. Tester EVENT HOST: MIT Museum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [WHAT'S NEW AT THE MEDIA LAB?] Under new leadership, MIT's Media Lab has shifted gears significantly. This forum gives viewers a sense of the Lab's current priorities, via an overview by new Lab director Frank Moss, and three student presentations. SPEAKER: Frank Moss Director, MIT Media Lab Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences Jerome B. Wiesner Professorship of Media Technology PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Today, for all the wonders we have, people are afraid of the future. I see an opportunity to take a platform like the Media Lab, and direct this toward ...a better future, a way in which technology can impact people at a deeper level. This begins with people who are disabled, people who are disadvantaged, socially or economically, or disenfranchised." -- Frank Moss EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Department of Architecture presents Ted Landsmark Director Boston Architectural College Architecture Race Academe: The Black Architect's Journey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT ADVANCED STUDY PROGRAM Put MIT to Work For You Spend a Semester at MIT As an ASP fellow, you will * investigate the latest advances in your field * design a curriculum to meet individual and company goals * learn to harness the power of new technologies * access the full range of MIT courses and resources * build a lifelong network of colleagues Accepting applications for Fall 2007 Classes begin September 5 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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... 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SPEAKER: Joseph Cirincione Senior Vice-President for National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "To convince Iran to give up (the nuclear) option, they must be convinced that that's where history's going, in the region, and globally, and that means us. We have to give up our nuclear fetish. We don't need 10 thousand nuclear weapons, we'll cut down to 5 thousand nuclear weapons -- there's still enough to destroy the planet several times over just in our arsenal." -- Joseph Cirincione EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum at MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: THE INNOVATORS' VIEW] Innovators are like jazz musicians... or like permanent teenagers. These and other analogies flowed, as top-flight tech inventors tried to put their fingers on the precise nature of innovation and how it can best be coaxed into existence. MODERATOR: Padmasree Warrior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Motorola Incorporated PANELISTS: Yair Goldfinger Co-Founder and CTO, Dotomi Phillip A. Sharp Institute Professor Jay Walker Chairman, Walker Digital LLC Iqbal Quadir Co-founder and Director, MIT Program for Developmental Entrepreneurship PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Innovators are fundamentally, permanently dissatisfied people. They're unhappy -- not good with the status quo thing. The difference between not liking it and being an innovator is that innovators decide to do something about it." -- Jay Walker EVENT HOST: Technology Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research Laboratory for Electronics Nanotechnology Public Lecture Series presents Bruce Donald Professor of Computer Science at Duke University Professor of Biochemistry in the Duke University Medical Center Building Very Small Mobile Micro-Robots ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Professional Institute [2007 SUMMER SHORT COURSES] Intensive programs from 1 to 5 days long: * led by renowned MIT faculty * taught on the MIT campus with MIT resources * geared for busy professionals * designed for in-depth learning * grant certificates and CEUs in biotechnology, chemical engineering, energy, data modeling and analysis, IT, lean fundamentals, mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, nuclear systems, lasers & optics, technology policy, system architecture and other topics of vital interest to today's engineers and scientists. 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SPEAKER: George David Chairman and CEO, United Technologies Corporation PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "There is no force more powerful in modern business than productivity. You do it or die." -- George David EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY] Nuclear energy will emerge either as a solution to the twin crises of global warming and a secure energy supply, or global catastrophe. Within this panel at least, there doesn't seem to be a comfortable middle ground. MODERATOR: John Durant Director, MIT Museum PANELISTS: Andrew C. Kadak Professor of the Practice of Nuclear Engineering, MIT Allison Macfarlane Associate Professor of Environment Science and Policy at George Mason University Victor Reis Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Energy PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "There are two inconvenient truths. The first is that global warming is happening. The second inconvenient truth: to deal with global warming all non-CO2 emitting energy sources must be used, including nuclear energy." -- Andrew Kadak EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum at MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Center for Global Change Science and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences present Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture Stephen H. Schneider Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University Uncertainties in Climate Forecasts: Causes, Magnitudes and Policy Implications ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT ADVANCED STUDY PROGRAM Put MIT to Work For You Spend a Semester at MIT As an ASP fellow, you will * investigate the latest advances in your field * design a curriculum to meet individual and company goals * learn to harness the power of new technologies * access the full range of MIT courses and resources * build a lifelong network of colleagues Accepting applications for Fall 2007 Classes begin September 5 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/20070524/21616534/attachment.htm