From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Jul 8 09:15:13 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:15:13 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Rafael del Pino on Ferrovial, Dower on Cultures of War Message-ID: <78915.JLXMLWSV@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 50 | July 7, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [The Internationalization of Spanish Companies: Ferrovial, The Rise of a Multinational] Rafael del Pino tells the story of Ferrovial, a European firm that started out in the 1950's building sleeper cars for railroads, that has grown to a major infrastructure, design, construction, financing and operations powerhouse. SPEAKER: Rafael del Pino SM'86 Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Grupo Ferrovial PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] (on being a young CEO) "One of the questions they (visiting Sloan students) asked is, 'how come you became a CEO at such a young age'? And I said, 'well I joined the company as a simple engineer and I was soon promoted to son of the owner'." -- Rafael del Pino EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq] The current administration began its "great misuse of history" shortly after 9/11, says John Dower, when it seized upon Japan's 1941 Pearl Harbor attack as a useful analogy, a way to promote its own invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation. SPEAKER: John W. Dower Ford International Professor of History, MIT PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Terror and massive destruction are perceived by their users as genuinely dual use or dual effect tactics. They are morale destroying where the enemy's concerned, but simultaneously morale boosting where one's own side is concerned." -- John Dower EVENT HOST: The Office of the President of MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Center for Global Change Science and The Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences present Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture Veerabhadran Ramanathan Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences University of California, San Diego Global and Regional Climate Change: Underlying Science and Emerging Riddles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Gary Hack PhD '76 Dean of the School of Design and Paley Professor of City & Regional Planning University of Pennsylvania PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Over the next 30 years, 70% of the new population and 80% of new jobs will land in 10 mega-regions in the US. We must think about those as new entities. We are poorly equipped. Regional-spatial planning went out, and we must revive it." -- Gary Hack EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SUSTAINING CITIES: ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND EMPOWERMENT] This panel of urban scholars provides an in depth look at the concept of sustainability, and considers a framework of environmental and economic justice on a global scale. MODERATOR: Lawrence J. Vale SM '88 Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT School of Architecture and Planning Margaret MacVicar Fellow PANELISTS: Judith Layzer Ph.D. '99 Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, MIT Jason Corburn S.M. '96, Ph.D. '02 Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley J. Phillip Thompson Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Chris Zegras '01 SM, MCP, PhD '05 Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning, MIT Adil Najam CE'96, PhD' 01 Fredrick Pardee Professor of Global Policy and Director, Pardee Center for the Study of Long-Term Future, Boston University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "At 24 acres, the per capita ecological footprint of the average U.S. citizen is 5 times the world average, and almost 10 times what would be environmentally sustainable. So we need many, many earths if everybody on the earth is going to live the way we do." -- Judith Layzer EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Department of Architecture Goldstein Architecture, Engineering, and Science Lecture presents Werner Sobek Engineer, Werner Sobek Ingenieure Director, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design High-Eco-Tech: Building Avant la Garde ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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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MODERATOR: Henry Jenkins Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities Director of Comparative Media Studies Program PANELISTS: Cass Sunstein Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago Yochai Benkler Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies Co-director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We need a new model of human cooperation, of understanding human behavior and action that builds in imperfections, that doesn't imagine utopian altruism, that understands people are different from each other, that some people are more generous under some conditions, some people have more trust and reciprocity, and others have more commitment to the collective good and doing something well." -- Yochai Benkler EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Neurobiology of Fear, Anxiety and Extinction: Implications for Psychotherapy] In his talk, Davis describes the meticulous experiments he and others have conducted over many years on fear and anxiety, exploring what neural mechanisms underlie the startle reflex, and how fear plays a part in the response. SPEAKER: Michael Davis Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "It's a very exciting time. We are really not trying to treat symptoms or reduce anxiety. We're trying to improve the learning process we think is inherent to psychotherapy, namely the extinction process." -- Michael Davis EVENT HOST: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space A conversation with Giuliana Bruno, Terrie Sultan, and Chantal Akerman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: John Doerr Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Going green, solving that problem, is going to be the largest transformation we've seen on the planet at least since it went aerobic, from methane to oxygen." -- John Doerr EVENT HOST: MIT Energy Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [BUILDING TECHNOLOGY, TALENT AND POLICY BRIDGES TO A LOW-CARBON FUTURE] After 20-plus years in the utility industry, James Rogers is emphatic that we must "build a bridge to a low carbon world." He confesses to a missionary zeal around clean energy, and to the fact that he must reinvent his business, Duke Energy. SPEAKER: James Rogers Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Notre Dame took 104 years, three generations. The architect never saw it finished. Stone masons never saw the stained glass windows. ...My challenge to you is, have the same cathedral thinking on the carbon issue. We won't get it done in a decade. It took us 100 years to get here, it will take a while to get out of this." -- James Rogers EVENT HOST: MIT Energy Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Department of Urban Studies and Planning Changing Cities: Celebrating 75 Years of Planning Better Futures at MIT presents Allan Goodman President and CEO Institute of International Education If the World is Flat, What are we Still Doing in Cambridge? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. Conference speakers from MIT: Peter Senge, Yossi Sheffi, Olivier de Weck, Nancy Leveson, Patrick Hale Conference speakers from industry: Valerie Casey, IDEO; John deVadoss, Microsoft Corporation; Paul Murray, Herman Miller; Girish Navani, eClinical Works; Lee Ng, Agilent Technologies; Michael Schulte, Capgemini; Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot October 23 - 24, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Management Review [WHAT SHOULD MANAGERS DO WITH 'SUSTAINABILITY?'] >From the world's leading management thinkers, teachers, and writers The issues surrounding sustainability loom large for managers. Practices and attitudes will change as companies adapt. MIT Sloan Management Review forecasts the coming changes with research reports, essays, and opinions on sustainability issues for managers and companies. MIT SMR helps managers sort out the competing choruses on sustainability, and understand what's important and what to focus on as we move into the Sustainable Age. "Clearly you are staking out the high ground as the leading journal for business innovation." Sign up for the free MIT SMR Sustainability Issues for Managers e-newsletter and receive "The Roots of Sustainability" 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 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SPEAKERS: John Hockenberry Distinguished Fellow, MIT Media Lab Host, The Takeaway, WNYC Radio, PRI Hugh Herr Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "The dream here is that one day I and other people with limb amputations will not only be able to walk across a sandy beach but feel the sand against their prosthesis." -- Hugh Herr EVENT HOST: MIT Museum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [BUILDING RESPONSIVE CITIES: TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN, AND DEVELOPMENT] This panel of experts tries to create a vision for a responsive city, claiming that we need to confront the immense challenges of rapid urbanization, universal mobility sustainability and basic livability. MODERATOR: Lawrence J. Vale SM '88 Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT School of Architecture and Planning Margaret MacVicar Fellow PANELISTS: Dennis Frenchman, MCP '76, MAA '76 Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning, and Director, City Design and Development, MIT Antonio Di Mambro '71, MAA '77, MCP '77 Principal, Antonio di Mambro+ Associates Martha Lampkin Welborne, MCP '81, MAA '81 Thomas J. Campanella, PhD '99 Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Even a Robert Moses would hardly budge the needle on a Chinese urban Richter scale. In his whole master builder career, Moses constructed 420 miles of urban expressway in the New York metro region. Shanghai officials in the '90s built 4 times that amount." -- Tom Campanella EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Center for International Studies Starr Forum presents Greg Mitchell Editor, Editor and Publisher Magazine So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the President Failed on Iraq ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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