From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Wed Aug 6 11:08:39 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:08:39 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Carter on Leading with Information Technology, Panel on Cities and Immigration Message-ID: <86118.HJWJFMIU@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 55 | August 6, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [LEADING WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY] Marshall Carter leads an MIT class through a case study on corporate transformation, highlighting tips he believes are as salient for engineering students as for those focused on business services. SPEAKER: Marshall N. Carter Chairman, Board of Directors, New York Stock Exchange Group, and Director, NYSE PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Of all the leadership challenges you'll face, leading major change at any level...will be near the top. It will require the largest allocation of time and building of teamwork you'll have to devote attention to." -- Marshall Carter EVENT HOST: Principles of Engineering Practice (3.003) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [DIVERSIFYING CITIES: MIGRATION, HABITATION, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT] In this final panel from the DUSP symposium, planners discuss how immigrant populations are transforming cities, and the opportunity for city planners to create welcoming places for incoming populations. MODERATOR: Xavier de Souza Briggs Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning, MIT PANELISTS: Anna Hardman, MCP '71, PhD '88 Lecturer, Department of Economics, Tufts University Abel Valenzuela, Jr. MCP '88, PhD '95 Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, University of California, Los Angeles Jessica Andors, MCP '99 Deputy Director, Lawrence CommunityWorks PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "In Lawrence, a lot of capital flows out, especially back to the Dominican Republic....This is a redistribution of wealth to a country that's supplied a lot of human and natural capital to the US for years and years. Remittances and the flow of capital and people are an important part of global and local economies." -- Jessica Andors EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Sloan School of Management Back to the Classroom 2008 presents Roberto Rigobon Professor of Economics MIT Sloan School of Management The U.S. and the World's Recession ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT System Design and Management Conference SYSTEMS THINKING FOR CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES SDM's annual conference provides opportunities for systems thinkers to learn practical applications from some of the world's leading innovators from MIT and industry -- as well as from each other. Speakers at this year's event, "Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges," will discuss best practices for applying systems thinking to areas that include sustainability and the environment, product design, technology strategy, entrepreneurship, and software. This two-day event has been carefully designed to provide you practical information that can be applied across industries, so that you can provide demonstrable value to your company when you return to the office. October 23 - 24, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Lawrence Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science, University of Washington Ingeborg Endter SM '00 Outreach Manager, MIT Center for Future Civic Media Alan Khazei Founder and CEO, Be the Change, Inc. Co-Founder and Former CEO, City Year PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "You can't learn citizenship by reading about it in a book. We need to support young people who want to do civic advocacy." -- Alan Khazei EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Sloan School of Management Back to the Classroom 2008 presents Drazen Prelec Professor of Management Science MIT Sloan School of Management Neuroeconomics ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Billington Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering Princeton University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Instead of stick diagrams and the occasional decorative picture thrown into a textbook, they (engineering students) should really learn the essence of engineering from the best work that's ever been done." -- David P. Billington EVENT HOST: Program in Science, Technology and Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [HIGH-ECO-TECH: BUILDING AVANT LA GARDE] There's more than a little magic in Werner Sobek's constructions, which balance aesthetics, architectural constraints and pathbreaking science to, in his words, "go beyond" nature's own limits. SPEAKER: Werner Sobek Engineer and Architect, Werner Sobek Ingenieure PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Complete know how in disciplines is one thing, but to work in terra incognita, this is something we more or less have devoted our lives to..." -- Werner Sobek EVENT HOST: Department of Architecture ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Engineering Systems Division presents Clayton Christensen Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution to the Healthcare Crisis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT System Design and Management Conference SYSTEMS THINKING FOR CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES SDM's annual conference provides opportunities for systems thinkers to learn practical applications from some of the world's leading innovators from MIT and industry -- as well as from each other. Speakers at this year's event, "Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges," will discuss best practices for applying systems thinking to areas that include sustainability and the environment, product design, technology strategy, entrepreneurship, and software. This two-day event has been carefully designed to provide you practical information that can be applied across industries, so that you can provide demonstrable value to your company when you return to the office. October 23 - 24, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Neil Pappalardo '64 Founder, Chairman and CEO, Meditech PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Some simple lessons I learned: Engage your creative talents and capacity for discovery; Follow your passion and make it your life's work; Remain confident in your abilities -- do not waiver in the face of skepticism or adversity. Above all, should you come to be rewarded for your hard work and dedication, never forget your obligations to your family, university and to society." -- A. Neil Pappalardo EVENT HOST: MIT School of Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SOCIABLE ROBOTS] Cynthia Breazeal makes social robots, machines with the capacity to interact with people on psychological terms. She says they "open up a new world of questions." But these increasingly sophisticated devices make Sherry Turkle uneasy, since they challenge the idea of human relationships and the very "purpose, importance, of living things." MODERATOR: Bruce Gellerman Producer and Reporter, Living on Earth, Public Radio International PANELISTS: Cynthia Breazeal SM '93, SCD '00 LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Director, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Laboratory Sherry Turkle Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "This is part of a larger story of people's new experience of intimacy and solitude, as they confront life increasingly lived by, with, and through machines, both online and in the company of interactive programs and robotic creatures. We've become confused by cyber intimacies and solitudes." -- Sherry Turkle EVENT HOST: MIT Museum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ With this newsletter, MIT World completes its 7th year of publication with a record 116 new lectures published since September -- reaching a total of 563 videos in the collection. We will take our annual hiatus to get ready for the new year, and will resume publication on September 8, 2008. When we return we'll have lectures from Clayton Christensen on health care and disruptive technology, Roberto Rigobon on the world economy, Chantal Akerman on moving through time and space, Max Tegmark on precision cosmology, and many more. Later in the fall, we will release a newly designed MIT World. We are busy now redesigning the site, and converting the entire video library to Flash. This will indeed be the most exciting development in MIT World's history, as we look forward to presenting new videos in a more elegant and modern environment. Watch this space for updates, as we look forward to our mid-fall launch. We thank the more than 80 content producing hosts -- from MIT's schools, labs, centers, departments, programs and offices -- whose lectures, panels and symposia are published on MIT World. Thanks to the entire MIT World virtual production team: MIT Libraries' Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), for video capture, production and digitizing, MIT IS&T's Departmental Consulting and Application Development Team (DCAD), for newsletter production, web hosting and technical support, MIT's Publishing Services Bureau (PSB) for graphics production, RiverRun Media for editorial and research services and Akamai Technologies for global video distribution. Thanks to our sponsors, the MIT Office of the President and The Lord Foundation of Massachusetts. See you in September. Laurie A. Everett Director ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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