From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Oct 3 09:21:56 2007 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:21:56 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Hockenberry, Herr and Kaman on Technology, Media In Transition panel Message-ID: <103921.QMPOBWUS@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 5 | October 2, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [A.B.L.E. TECH: ACHIEVING BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCES FOR PEOPLE WITH INJURY, DISABILITY AND AGING CHALLENGES THROUGH 21ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGIES] MODERATOR: John Hockenberry Distinguished Fellow, MIT Media Lab PANELISTS: Hugh Herr Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab Dean Kamen Chairman of Segway, LLC Founder of For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "The technology and entrepreneurial communities are inventing extraordinarily powerful tools: Neural prostheses, external robotics, machine learning. As we march into the future, you will see a world where amputees can run faster; you'll see a person who's suffered a stroke no longer limping. These powerful tools will do a tremendous service to society, in that they'll rid society of human disability." --Hugh Herr EVENT HOST: MIT Enterprise Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [REPRODUCTION, MIMICRY, CRITIQUE AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS IN VISUAL ART] MODERATOR: Bill Arning Curator, List Visual Arts Center, MIT PANELISTS: Michael Mittelman Artist, and Founder and editor, ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art Tony Cokes Artist and Researcher, Brown University Andres Laracuente Artist PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] (on distributing digital content) "The goal is many eyes, few hands." --Mike Mittelman EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Alumni Association Technology Day 2007 presents Nazli Choucri Professor of Political Science Energy in a Global Context ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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So since 1976, we have gone from printing stuff the size of a bacterium to stuff the size of a virus. We must continue down this road to sustain the growth of the industry." --Grant Willson EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SUMMARY PERSPECTIVES] MODERATOR: Nick Montfort Assistant Professor of Digital Media, MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies PANELISTS: Suzanne de Castell Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University Jose van Dijck Professor of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam Fred Turner Assistant Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program, Department of Communication, Stanford University Siva Vaidhyanathan Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities and Institute for the Future of the Book PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Was the era of corporate proprietary culture with one-to-many distribution an historical blip we dealt with for an 80-year period, and we're now getting back with how people have always dealt with each other? Isn't remix culture just culture?" --Siva Vaidhyanathan EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Department of Philosophy presents Peter Singer Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University Global Poverty: How Demanding Are Our Obligations? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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A panel discussion featuring * Henry Jenkins * Chris Csikszentmihalyi * Beth Noveck * Ethan Zuckerman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 Spring 2007 Classes begin February 5 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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But sequence studies imply the opposite.... Good things move forward in time." -- Shane Frederick EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Center for International Studies Starr Forum presents Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy A panel discussion featuring * John Mearsheimer * Stephen Walt * Bruce Riedel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 Spring 2008 Classes begin February 5 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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It's the last stop we have to influence what the brain is going to look like." -- Beatriz Luna EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [WHAT IS CIVIC MEDIA?] MODERATOR: Henry Jenkins Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and Director of Comparative Media Studies Program PANELISTS: Chris Csikszentmihalyi Muriel R. Cooper Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab Beth Noveck Professor of Law, New York Law School Director, Institute for Information Law and Policy Ethan Zuckerman Fellow, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Law School PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Technologies are inherently political devices: They allow the world to get a bit easier for a set of people and at the same time, they might or might not make it more difficult to maneuver for the other set." -- Chris Csikszentmihalyi EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) 2007 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics presents Charles Perrow Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Sociology Yale University The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS is interested in what you have to say about distance education for busy professionals. 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