From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Apr 2 08:27:02 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:27:02 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Morash on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Silbey and panel on Teaching the Second Law Message-ID: <42827.CUGARAUH@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 34 | April 2, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ADVANCEMENTS IN UNDERWATER VEHICLES: RESPONDING TO CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES] In this Soap Box event at the MIT Museum, Morash describes the new generation of autonomous underwater vehicles. SPEAKER: James Morash Research Engineer, MIT Seagrant Program PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "There are only a handful of deep sea submersibles in the world. ... You spend a lot of money to go out on a research vessel, deploy your sub and dive into the deep ocean. You want something to be there when you get to the bottom, especially if you're as tall as me and you're crammed into a six-foot sphere for eight to 12 hours." -- James Morash EVENT HOST: MIT Museum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [TEACHING THE SECOND LAW] This panel of educators discusses the challenges of teaching the Second Law of Thermodynamics. MODERATOR: Robert J. Silbey Class of 1942 Professor of Chemistry PANELISTS: Joseph Smith, Jr. Samuel C. Collins Senior Professor of Mechanical Engineering Howard Butler Retired Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, West Virginia University Andrew Foley Associate Professor, Engineering Department, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Kim Hamad-Schifferli Homer A. Burnell Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Biological Engineering, MIT Bernhardt Trout Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT Jeffrey Lewins Life Fellow, Praelector, Magdalene College, Cambridge University Enzo Zanchini Professore Ordinario, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Energetica, Nucleare e del Controllo Ambientale Michael von Spakovsky Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "I've taught thermodynamics in the chemistry department for about 40 years. Whenever I get to the Second Law, I always am very nervous. ... Toscanini, when he had to conduct Beethoven's 9th, told the orchestra, take courage. When you do the Second Law, it's the same thing." -- Robert J. Silbey EVENT HOST: Department of Mechanical Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The MIT Energy Initiative presents Alliance for Global Sustainability Conference John Sterman Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management Director, MIT System Dynamics Group MIT Sloan School of Management Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President 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 (AMPS), MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The class found it hard to take. ...The emotions are so strong and powerful, and beautifully enacted -- they didn't know what to do with it....They just sat there in silence, nobody moved, said a word." -- Irving Singer EVENT HOST: authors at MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [HAVE WE ALL BEEN RIGHT? LOOKING BACKWARDS AT LINGUISTIC THEORY, STATISTICS, AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION] MODERATOR: Charles Yang Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania PANELISTS: Robert Freidin Professor of the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University Jean-Roger Vergnaud Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California Norbert Hornstein Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland William Gregory Sakas Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hunter College Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science and Linguistics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Anna Maria Di Sciullo Professor of Linguistics, University of Quebec at Montreal PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "I'm trying to go back to the issue, what's poverty of the stimulus all about. When you say it's a problem, it's a problem for the learner and not the linguist. It's a tool..., only a blunt tool...." -- Josh Tenenbaum EVENT HOST: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The MIT Office of the Present presents Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Tom Brokaw Former Anchor and Managing Editor NBC Nightly News Life is Not Virtual ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President 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 (AMPS), MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SPEAKER: Rebecca Henderson Eastman Kodak LFM Professor, MIT Sloan School PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "If you asked me the single biggest difference between firms that made the transition to act in really different ways from firms who didn't, it was those firms that managed from the heart -- where people really committed to what was happening, were really willing to walk through "worse before better" because they trusted each other that this was the price that needed to be paid on the other side." -- Rebecca Henderson EVENT HOST: Industrial Liaison Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Second Law and Energy Nobel Prize-winning scientist Stephen Chu discusses the history and application of the laws of thermodynamics, which have served as "the scientific foundation of how we harness energy, and the basis of the industrial revolution, the wealth of nations." SPEAKER: Stephen Chu Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "As synthetic organic chemists try to duplicate (photosynthesis) in an artificial system, there's a real challenge here. Nature turns out to be very good." -- Stephen Chu EVENT HOST: Department of Mechanical Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program Presents Dr. Carl Wieman Director, Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative, University of British Columbia 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Management Review Innovations in 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. From fascinating research on the powerful global companies of the moment, to thoughtful and considered essays and opinions, The Review provides a substantive, invaluable look ahead to the coming changes in the practice of management. "Clearly you are staking out the high ground as the leading journal for business innovation." Sign up for the free MIT SMR e-newsletter and receive "The Art of Making Change Initiatives Stick" free. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President 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 (AMPS) MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 32-278 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/20080416/4b67628a/attachment.htm From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Fri Apr 18 10:26:03 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:26:03 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Senge on Sustainable Strategies, Forum on IPO Readiness Message-ID: <4181026.DTSPRNMU@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - volume 7 | number 37 | April 18, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES] Companies sometimes regard sustainability as "metaphoric low-hanging fruit," says moderator Peter Senge, and reach for a few easy targets to achieve cosmetic improvements. His three panelists describe how their corporations are attempting to embrace sustainability as more than just another high-profile, low-impact initiative that "goes right into an overloaded bucket." MODERATOR: Peter Senge Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan Founding Chairman, Society for International Learning PANELISTS: Wayne Balta Vice President for Corporate Environmental Affairs and Product Safety, IBM Mark Buckley Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Staples Kevin Moss Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BT Americas PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Environment is not a fad, a flavor of the month.... An organization must be able to sustain the integration of environmental considerations in its business independent of whether or not a given CEO is personally out evangelizing on the subject." --Wayne Balta EVENT HOST: Industrial Liaison Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ARE YOU READY FOR IPO? STRATEGIES AND STEPS FOR HOW AND WHEN TO TAKE YOUR COMPANY PUBLIC] These panelists serve up straight talk and occasionally dish on various aspects of going public, giving aspiring entrepreneurs an unvarnished view of the process. MODERATOR: Robert Buderi Founder and CEO, Xconomy PANELISTS: Jonathan Bush CEO, President and Chairman, athenahealth Gail Goodman President and CEO, Constant Contact Jonathan (Jono) Goldstein Managing Director, TA Associates Bruce Evans Managing Partner, Summit Partners PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "I met 250 investors in 93 meetings in 7 and a half days in 13 cities." --Jonathan Bush EVENT HOST: MIT Enterprise Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Sloan School of Management Dean's Innovative Leader Series presents Rafael del Pino, SM'86 Executive Chairman, Grupo Ferrovial, S.A. Going Global: The Internationalization of Spanish Companies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Professional Institute [ENERGY SHORT COURSES AT MIT] The MIT Professional Institute will be offering energy courses taught by MIT faculty on campus this summer. These courses are from 2-6 days long and are designed for professional audiences. Liquid Transportation Fuels from Biomass: Technology and Policy Considerations Gregory Stephanopoulos June 16-20, 2008 Renewable Energy: Capturing the Sun Daniel G. Nocera August 4-8, 2008 Additional energy courses offered by PI focus on: internal combustion engines, design of motors, organic electronics, transportation networks, and nuclear topics. For a complete listing of 2008 courses, visit the MIT Professional Institute ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President 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 (AMPS) MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 32-278 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls." -- Tom Brokaw EVENT HOST: The Office of the President of MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [LEADING GLOBAL GROWTH BY PROTECTING WHAT REALLY MATTERS MOST] SPEAKER: Ellen J. Kullman Executive Vice President, DuPont PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] (on DuPont) "At a our core, there's a huge amount of curiosity, an unending desire for scientific inquiry into what makes things work and how to make them better. A big part of my job is to keep creative minds open and working, even (as) we get bombarded with what we did this quarter in revenues, earnings, shareholder value. It is unending, the short-term pressure on companies today." -- Ellen J. Kullman EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research Laboratory for Electronics Nanotechnology Public Lecture Series Dr. Evelyn Hu Scientific Director, California Nanosystems Institute Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, U.C. Santa Barbara Nanophotonics: Discovering the Magic of Light in Nanostructures ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President 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 (AMPS), MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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