From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Oct 7 11:32:10 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:32:10 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Max Tegmark on Cosmology, Panel on SBIR Funding Message-ID: <1071132.MYNWLJST@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 8 | Number 6 | October 7, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [PRECISION COSMOLOGY] Buzz Lightyear has nothing on Max Tegmark, who takes his alumni audience on a dizzying tour of the universe and beyond. Before Tegmark begins, MIT President Susan Hockfield highlights some newsworthy Institute milestones and initiatives, including breaking ground on a new cancer research center that will bring together engineering and life sciences; and pioneering work on new energy solutions, with a focus on harnessing light from the sun. SPEAKER: Max Tegmark Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "It wasn't until 1925 that the American astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that there were other galaxies. Now we're so spoiled, with a few clicks of the mouse, we can zoom out 'til a whole galaxy is just a little dot, and other dots -- not stars but other galaxies, with hundreds of millions of stars of their own." -- Max Tegmark EVENT HOST: Alumni Association ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INNOVATION TO COMMERCIALIZATION: USING GOVERNMENT FUNDING TO KICK START YOUR START-UP] This informative roundtable provides useful tips to aspiring entrepreneurs on obtaining government dollars. Through conversation and Q&A, moderator Bruce Gellerman elicits some key dos and don'ts from a National Science Foundation small business program officer, and from tech CEOs who have benefited from the government's programs. MODERATOR: Bruce Gellerman Producer and Reporter, Living on Earth, Public Radio International PANELISTS: Thomas Allnutt Program Director, National Science Foundation, Small Business Innovation Research & Small Business Technology Transfer Milton Chen CEO, VSee Christopher Loose PhD '07 Chief Technology Officer, Semprus Biosciences Bill Townsend '84, SM '77 Founder, Barrett Technology PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We have room for people who want VC, people who want to sell services, people who want bootstrapping. We're open to anything that's reasonable. We're looking for people who've thought through at least one plan." -- Thomas Allnut EVENT HOST: MIT Enterprise Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Alumni Association Technology Day 2008 presents Cynthia Breazeal LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Director, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Laboratory Personal Robots ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Dava Newman, SM '89, PhD '92 Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems Director of Technology and Policy Program and MacVicar Faculty Fellow PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We can get people to Mars safely, keep them alive. We may have to accept that maybe everyone doesn't come back alive. That's just the business of exploration. When we first went to Antarctica and all around the world, we didn't bring back all the crews." -- Dava Newman EVENT HOST: Alumni Association ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [PERSONAL ROBOTS] Cynthia Breazeal's eminently charming and huggable creatures appear to have stepped out of Santa's North Pole workshop. But Breazeal wants you to know that her robots are attempts to create socially intelligent machines "whose behaviors are governed not just by physics but by having a mind," and which might someday collaborate with humans in critical interactions. SPEAKER: Cynthia Breazeal SM '93, SCD '00 LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Director, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Laboratory PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "In the past, robots were seen as tools. There's a new sort of work: What if robots can be partners who do things with us as partners, or teammates? How do we coordinate human minds and bodies with robot minds and bodies?" -- Cynthia Breazeal EVENT HOST: Alumni Association ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Museum Soap Box series presents Ethan Zuckerman Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Harvard University Law School Technologies and Emerging Democracies: Building a Better Gatekeeper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Kagame on Rwanda's Future, Panel on US Foreign Policy Message-ID: <1023168.TLDTFNSV@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 8 | Number 8 | October 24, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [IMPERATIVE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ACCELERATING AFRICAN AND RWANDAN DEVELOPMENT] SPEAKER: Paul Kagame President, Republic of Rwanda PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Without a knowledge base, Africa's imperative for agricultural and industrial development to create wealth will remain unrealized." -- His Excellency Paul Kagame EVENT HOST: Karl Taylor Compton Lecture ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [FOREIGN POLICY AND THE NEXT U.S. ADMINISTRATION] SPEAKER: Barry Posen Ford International Professor of Political Science Director, CIS Security Studies Program, MIT SPEAKER: Carol Saivetz Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, MIT Research Associate,Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University SPEAKER: Taylor Fravel Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science Member, CIS Security Studies Program, MIT PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "You could make the argument that maybe if we were weaned off this (oil), not just us but the rest of the world, we could look at (the Persian Gulf) with more equanimity, we could commit less military power, spend less money on it, be less out there, and take a piece of the story away from the Al Qaeda narrative." -- Barry Posen EVENT HOST: Center for International Studies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Sloan School of Management Dean's Innovative Leader Series presents Ronald A. Williams Chairman and CEO Aetna, Inc. Leading Change: A Conversation with Ron Williams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: David Schmittlein John C Head III, Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management SPEAKER: Richard M. Locke PhD '89 Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science, MIT Sloan School of Management SPEAKER: John Sterman PhD '82 Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT SPEAKER: Vladimir Bulovic KDD Associate Professor of Communications and Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT SPEAKER: Kevin Moss Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BT Americas PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "If we can cut the use of fossil fuels, it puts money in our pockets....I believe those folks who say we can't address the problem, that it's too expensive, that it will hurt the economy, have a profoundly pessimistic view about human creativity, about our capacity to work together and collectively for the greater good and for future generations." -- John Sterman EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [A VIEW FROM INDUSTRY] Gary Cowger details environmental sustainability efforts at General Motors to date and highlights more ambitious plans for the future. SPEAKER: Gary L. Cowger, SF '78 Group Vice President of Global Manufacturing and Labor Relations, General Motors Corporation PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "When we combine all recycling, energy conservation, forestry and renewable initiatives, we have reduced CO2 equal to what is released by producing energy for nearly 400 thousand houses a year." -- Gary Cowger EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT's Industrial Liaison Program presents John Chambers Chairman and CEO, Cisco Building the Next Generation Company: Innovation, Talent, Excellence ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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