From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Mon Mar 3 07:34:54 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 07:34:54 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Leinen on Carbon Sequestration, Frontiers of the Second Law of Thermodynamics Message-ID: <33734.TVHLYXCT@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 29 | March 3, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [GEOSCIENCES AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE] SPEAKER: Margaret Leinen Chief Science Officer, Climos, Inc. PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We're going to be dealing with catch-up for a long enough time that we will suffer the consequences of emissions regardless of whether we put policies in place." -- Margaret Leinen EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [FRONTIERS OF THE SECOND LAW] MODERATOR: Seth Lloyd Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems, Engineering Systems Division, MIT PANELISTS: Adrian Bejan J. A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Duke University Bjarne Andresen Professor of Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen Miguel Rubi Professor of Physics, University of Barcelona Signe Kjelstrup Professor of Physical Chemistry, Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology David Jou Professor of Physics,University of Catalonia Miroslav Grmela Researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal Lyndsay Gordon Author, "The Decrease in Entropy via Fluctuations," Entropy Eric Schneider Co-Author, Into the Cool George N. Hatsopoulos Chairman, American DG Energy PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "With the constructed law of generation of configuration in nature, thermodynamics becomes a science of systems with configuration, or read in the opposite direction, our design ceases to be art and comes closer to being science, a mental activity with its feet planted firmly in principle." -- Adrian Bejan EVENT HOST: Department of Mechanical Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman is now available for download at Apple iTunes U. Check it out, along with other MIT World Videos, and course videos from MIT OpenCourseWare at the MIT section of iTunes U ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Eric Klopfer Scheller Career Development Professor of Science Education and Educational Technology Director, Teacher Education Program, MIT PANELISTS: Mario Armstrong NPR Technology Correspondent Co-founder, Urban Video Game Academy Ian Bogost Founding Partner,Persuasive Games LLC Assistant Professor, School of Communications, Georgia Institute of Technology PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Gaming shouldn't be seen just as recreational activity. It should be seen as a time of reflection and study, research and understanding." -- Mario Armstrong EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [A REVERSE NOTICE AND TAKEDOWN REGIME TO ENABLE PUBLIC INTEREST USES OF TECHNICALLY PROTECTED COPYRIGHTED WORKS] Pamela Samuelson walks her audience through dense and murky regulations and case law surrounding digital rights management, glimpsing a somewhat brighter way ahead for advocates of fair use. SPEAKER: Pamela Samuelson Chancellor's Professor of Information Management and of Law, University of California, Berkeley PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "A lot of what people like me have been worried about was that copyright industries have a keen desire to control all technologies that can process digital information." -- Pamela Samuelson EVENT HOST: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Enterprise Forum presents Are You Ready for IPO? Strategies and Steps For How and When to Take Your Company Public A Panel Discussion Moderator Robert Buderi Founder, CEO, Editor in Chief, Xconomy Panelists Jonathan Bush Chairman & CEO, athenahealth Bruce Evans Managing Partner, Summit Partners Jonathan Goldstein Managing Director, TA Associates Gail Goodman President & CEO, Constant Contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Before discussing how to deal with Earth systems, Brad Allenby asks that we think carefully about the complexity of human systems, especially our tendency to generate far more complexity than we realize. SPEAKER: Brad Allenby Templeton Fellow Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Engineering Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor of Law, Arizona State University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "If you want to be responsible in this world, we must talk across boundaries and not add to them." -- Brad Allenby EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [OPEN SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING] Scientists and educational institutions in a digital age must push back forcefully against the old paradigms for scholarly communications, or risk imperiling the course of scientific research. These speakers describe how traditional modes of publication have constricted public sharing of ideas on which scientific progress is based, and propose approaches more appropriate for a web-based world. SPEAKERS: Hal Abelson Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT School of Engineering John Wilbanks Vice President, Science Commons Anna Gold Associate Dean for Public Services, Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "This thinking about knowledge as a product you sell and lock up versus something you integrate is basically causing a systemic failure." -- John Wilbanks EVENT HOST: MIT Libraries ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Energy Initiative presents Alliance for Global Sustainability Conference How Would Climate Change Influence Society in the 21st Century? Rajendra K. Pachauri 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Director-General, The Energy and Resources 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 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Simple price mechanisms can fix congestion, says Stern, but climate change, which he views as "the greatest market failure the world has ever seen," requires unprecedented measures to contend with its potentially cataclysmic, long-term global impacts. SPEAKER: Nicholas Stern IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government Head, India Observatory, Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "I do believe if you look at the politics of rich and poor countries, changes seen in the last couple years do give me some hope you will get to this global deal." -- Sir Nicholas Stern EVENT HOST: MIT Energy Initiative ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ["IDEAL" LANGUAGE LEARNING AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCE PROBLEM] Some linguists study what can be learned in principle, but William Gregory Sakas asks "the feasibility question -- how efficient learning takes place." This talk focuses on such research, its historical antecedents, and issues that trouble Sakas and his colleagues. SPEAKER: 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 PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Is there anyone else out there trying to solve the psychological resource problem?" -- William Gregory Sakas EVENT HOST: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and the MIT Industrial Liaison Program present Dr. Craig R. Barrett Chairman, Intel Corporation Digital Evolution ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Kenneth Dill Professor of Biophysics Associate Dean of Research, University of California, San Francisco PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "This is not quite Maxwell's demon because that would be a temperature difference. This is really sort of Maxwells' brother's demon or Maxwell's demon's brother. In which case, what happens is, it's going up against a concentration gradient instead of a temperature gradient." -- Kenneth Dill EVENT HOST: Department of Mechanical Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [NBC'S HEROES: APPOINTMENT TV TO ENGAGEMENT TV] Two progenitors of broadcast TV's rapid expansion into the digital world provide narrative and back story for the development of NBC's crossover series, Heroes. MODERATOR: Henry Jenkins Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and Director of Comparative Media Studies Program PANELISTS: Jesse Alexander Co-Executive Producer and Writer, Heroes, NBC Mark Warshaw Writer, Producer, Director, Heroes, NBC PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "As to how fans get compensated, they won't even compensate writers. We as creators will find ways to show appreciation to the diehard fans. We'll incorporate their names into shows, encode secret messages for them." -- Jesse Alexander EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now available for download from Apple's iTunes U Marvin Minsky Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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