From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 2 17:10:56 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:10:56 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: George Shultz on Energy, Ronald Williams On Leading Change Message-ID: <1221710.CYMXGKMM@MIT.EDU> MIT World Newsletter Volume 8, Number 13 | December 2, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------- Energy: The Past Must Not Be Prologue October 15, 2008 In this insightful lecture, George Shultz makes the case for investing heavily in basic research and discusses his hopes for a new era of thoughtful, results-based energy and science policies. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/615 Speaker: George Shultz PhD '49 Former Secretary of State Event Host: MIT Energy Initiative The big enchilada is investing heavily in basic research. If you're going to subsidize something, support activities that will get results that will pay off for us. -George Shultz -------------------------------------------------------------- Leading Change: A Conversation with Ron Williams October 9, 2008 In what Dean Dave Schmittlein bills as a master class, Ronald A. Williams discusses how an emphasis on new technology and application of basic values helped turn around the health care giant Aetna. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/615 Speaker: Ronald A. Williams SF '84 Chairman & CEO, Aetna, Inc. Event Host: MIT Sloan School of Management We believe there's a huge opportunity to help make health care more accessible and affordable, to slow down the rate of increase and improve quality. ... (We must) deploy technology the way we've used it to transform every other aspect of society and American business. -Ronald Williams -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Religion and the Election: What Do We Think We Know? Presented By: The Office of the Chaplain to the Institute Speakers: Shaun Casey and Alan Wolfe -------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored Link MIT Sloan Management Review Escape the confines of traditional business thinking With adaptability and change management the currency of the realm, who better than MIT to lead the way? Starting in Winter 2009 the new MIT Sloan Management Review brings you a new focus on innovation and managing change. The newest creations from worldwide thinkers and managers, vetted and filtered at the home of all things innovation. Take a new look at the new MIT Sloan Management Review. 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This "juicy bait on a hook," as he calls it, often leads to an in-depth, fascinating report about a culture or perspective far removed from most Americans'. At a time when the world has become connected by infrastructure of all kinds, it behooves Americans to take a closer look at our neighbors, especially those in developing nations. But capturing people's attention on these matters, says Zuckerman, turns out to be a "surprisingly difficult problem." http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/616 Speaker: Ethan Zuckerman Fellow, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Law School Co-founder, Global Voices and Geekcorps Event Host: MIT Museum "My sense is that it's literally not responsible to be hyper-local in this world. If you're going to take on interesting problems, whether economic, social, environmental, you must look to solve them on a global scale." -Ethan Zuckerman -------------------------------------------------------------- Sustainable Building Design @ MIT: Walking the Talk September 19, 2008 There's "just exactly enough time, with no time to lose" to address the massive challenge of climate change and renewable energy, says moderator John Sterman. With this sense of urgency, MIT faculty, administration and students have taken to heart the mission of rendering their campus and the larger world more sustainable. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/617 Speaker: Moderator: John Sterman PhD '82 Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Event Host: MIT Sloan School of Management "There's enough energy, resources, material, enough environmental resilience and enough human virtue to bring about a sustainable world that's fair and creates opportunity for everyone." -John Sterman -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: The Role of Civc Media in the 2008 US Presidential Election Presented By: MIT Museum Soap Box Series Speakers: Henry Jenkins Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities Professor of Literature and Comparative Media Studies -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? 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After every economic challenge, he says, Cisco has come out with dramatic gains in market share. This time won't be different, if Chambers' bets pay off. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/619 Speaker: John Chambers President and CEO, Cisco Systems Event Host: Industrial Liaison Program "Regardless of industry, it's about getting market transitions right and being there well ahead of your peers." -John Chambers -------------------------------------------------------------- The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces: Anticipating a New Golden Age October 16, 2008 Listening to Frank Wilczek describe his research, one might not recognize simple English words, for they assume unfamiliar meanings in the context of physics. The deceptive lexicon of particles, forces and equations includes "up," "down," "flavor," "color," "strange," "everything," and the compelling "beautiful." Rigorous science is conveyed in poetry and metaphor. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/618 Speaker: Frank Wilczek Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT Event Host: MIT Libraries "The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is our civilization's answer to the Pyramids in that it's a gigantic project for a conceptual, as opposed to practical, purpose. But it's much better than the Pyramids because it's a monument to curiosity, as opposed to superstition." -Frank Wilczek -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Global Concerns of National Importance for the Next US Administration Presented By: Center for International Studies Starr Forum Speakers: Admiral William Fallon Former Head of CENTCOM Robert E. 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Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University Director, Harvard University Library Event Host: MIT Communications Forum "It's important to preserve as much as you can because you don't know what will turn out to be significant. ... I don't think I should be an intellectual policeman saying preserve this, not that. I leave it to future generations to explore in the vast world of the preserved what they deem most significant." -Robert Darnton -------------------------------------------------------------- 20-Ton Canaries: The Great Whales of the North Atlantic (Keynote) October 15, 2008 This two-part lecture provides a brief illustrated journey through our whaling past, and the heart-breaking current story of the North Atlantic right whale. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/620 Speakers: Eric Jay Dolin Author, Leviathan: A History of Whaling in America Michael Moore Senior Research Specialist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Event Host: MIT Sea Grant College Program "My biggest sadness is there hasn't been more of an attempt to model in the lab and field what they're trying to do before we incur costs on industry. The frustration is, as those modifications in large part fail, then the fishing industry becomes more and more resistant to further changes." -Michael Moore -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: The Inner History of Devices Presented By: The MIT Libraries and the MIT Press Bookstore authors at MIT Speakers: Sherry Turkle Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly: Write to mitworld-request at mit.edu with "unsubscribe" in the subject line -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This discussion provides a historical look at the role of religion in modern presidential elections. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/624 Speakers: Shaun Casey Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Wesley Theological Seminary National Evangelical Coordinator for the Barack Obama Campaign Alan Wolfe SM '56 Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College Event Host: The Office of the Chaplain of the Institute "Between Karl Rove and George Bush, they elevated religious outreach to an art form not seen in American politics." -Shaun Casey -------------------------------------------------------------- 20-Ton Canaries: The Great Whales of the North Atlantic (Panel) October 15, 2008 These legal, environmental and policy experts don?t converge on a dominant strategy for saving whales, but make the case in their own ways that we are fast approaching a moment of no return for the great cetaceans, and quite possibly the oceans we all rely on. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/621 Moderator: Douglas Fraser Reporter, Cape Cod Times Event Host: MIT Sea Grant College Program "I think whaling has to stop absolutely. It doesn?t work on any level. There?s a time to end things. It?s time to end the killing of them, since it serves no purpose whatsoever, and especially since it symbolizes the destruction of the entire ocean." -Max Strahan -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: A Few Things Learned from Craigslist Presented By MIT Center for Collective Intelligence Speaker: Craig Newmark Founder, Craigslist -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly: Write to mitworld-request at mit.edu with "unsubscribe" in the subject line -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(Part 1) October 17, 2008 In part one of this five-part symposium, Alex Belenky provides and overview of the Electoral College, and panelist make the case for keeping it--citing that it beats all of the alternatives. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/626 Speakers: Judith Best Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, Cortland Robert Hardaway Professor of Law, University of Denver College of Law Alexander S. Belenky Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals John Fortier Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Event Host: MIT Sloan School of Management "It?s been estimated that if we?d had direct elections in 1960, we still wouldn?t know who won; we?d have recounts to this day." -Robert Hardaway -------------------------------------------------------------- What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the System of Electing a President? (Part 2) October 17, 2008 The Electoral College emphatically does not represent the best of all possible worlds, say these panelists, in clear opposition to the EC advocates who precede them in this conference. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/627 Speakers: Akhil Amar Professor of Law, Yale University Law School Vikram Amar Professor of Law, University of California, Davis Law School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Robert Bennett Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law, Northwestern University Law School Alexander Keyssar Professor of History and Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Paul Schumaker Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas Event Host: MIT Sloan School of Management "We have controlled experiments in 50 states, and the direct election of (their) chief executive, and it works just fine." -Akhil Amar -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Celebrating James Marshall and Humor in Children?s Books Presented By: MIT Office of Government and Community Relations Moderator: Roger Sutton Editor in Chief, The Horn Book -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? 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