From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Tue Sep 9 10:27:39 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:27:39 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Greg Mitchell on the War and the Press, V. Ramanathan on the Science of Climate Change Message-ID: <991027.TRLSJQEP@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 8 | Number 1 | September 9, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: HOW THE PRESS, THE PUNDITS AND THE PRESIDENT FAILED ON IRAQ] Greg Mitchell has found both comedy and tragedy in what he calls the shameless and near-universal complicity between the American press and the Bush Administration around the Iraq war and occupation. SPEAKER: Greg Mitchell Editor, Editor and Publisher Magazine PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Reporters weren't skeptical enough when Cheney talked about aluminum tubes and when Bush linked Saddam to 9/11 and WMDs -- and these were the greatest reporters." -- Greg Mitchell EVENT HOST: Center for International Studies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE: UNDERLYING SCIENCE AND EMERGING RIDDLES] Veerabhadran Ramanathan recaps 35 years of key findings, and brings his audience up to date on the latest climate data, models, and observations which together demonstrate how CO2 is but one piece of a complex puzzle. SPEAKER: Veerabhadran Ramanathan Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego Director, Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "The whole discussion now is we shouldn't let the planet warm more than 2 degrees because climate tipping elements will come into play. My analysis shows that's in our rear view mirror. We're driving fast." -- Veerabhadran Ramanathan EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Sloan School of Management Back to the Classroom 2008 presents Brad Feld Managing Director, Foundry Group and Mobius Venture Capital Software Innovation -- Do You Think the Last 20 Years Were Exciting? The Next 20 Years Will Blow Your Mind ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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: Allan Goodman President and CEO, Institute of International Education PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "I think we should aspire to say, to be educated in America means you need to have international (study) as part of your education." -- Allan Goodman EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [CHANTAL AKERMAN: MOVING THROUGH TIME AND SPACE] Two experts on the work of filmmaker and artist Chantal Akerman -- join her in a discussion of her work exhibited at MIT's List Visual Arts Center. SPEAKER: Chantal Akerman Filmmaker, Video artist Professor of Film, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "I heard a well-known artist say what's important is the idea. I try to go with almost no idea. Of course, they are probably there, but I don't like to write them down or put them in words, otherwise, why do it? I like to discover what I'm looking for in the process of the work." -- Chantal Akerman EVENT HOST: MIT List Visual Arts Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Sloan School of Management Back to the Classroom 2008 presents Anjali Sastry Senior Lecturer Projects for Change: Bringing Management Tools and Ideas, Collaboration, and Learning-by-Doing to the Challenge of Global Health Delivery ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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He also reveals how we may harness his insights in such socially significant and complex industries as healthcare. SPEAKER: Clayton Christensen Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Author, The Innovator's Dilemma PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "If you develop a product or service that helps people do something more affordably and conveniently, something they're not trying to do, it just never works. Even if they should do it, if they're not trying to do it, it never works. A lot of problems with wellness programs: becoming healthy is not a job people try to do until they're really sick." -- Clayton Christensen EVENT HOST: Engineering Systems Division ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [HOW DEMOCRACY RESOLVES CONFLICT IN DIFFICULT GAMES] Just in time for the election.... Using game theory, and with some help from the Bible, Steven Brams argues that voting can resolve certain kinds of conflicts. SPEAKER: Steven Brams SB '62 Professor of Politics, New York University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "When games become voting games, cooperative outcomes take on a new status... The idea is, if you don't have a sufficient number, nobody pays, everybody suffers. If you have a sufficient number, everybody pays....There aren't in-between outcomes where some pay and some don't, and the ones that don't pay make out like bandits. That's what voting does, it prevents that banditry." -- Steven Brams EVENT HOST: Principles of Engineering Practice (3.003) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The "new" MIT World is coming. Watch for a radically new design and videos delivered in Flash format later this fall. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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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SPEAKER: Roberto Rigobon, PhD '97 Professor of Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Responsible central bankers should and must be increasing interest rates in the future. They have to take care of the fact that we're going to face more than 10% inflation in the next couple of years." -- Roberto Rigobon EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SOFTWARE INNOVATION -- DO YOU THINK THE LAST 20 YEARS WERE EXCITING? THE NEXT 20 YEARS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND] Feld discusses the next generation of software in context of changes in the last twenty years, and considers software that provides an immersive experience, the prospect of decoupling mouse and keyboard and the implications of cloud computing. SPEAKER: Brad Feld '87, SM '88 Co-founder and Managing Director at Foundry Group and Mobius Venture Capital PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "None of us have any privacy. Just get used to the idea that privacy is gone." -- Brad Feld EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Alumni Association Technology Day 2008 presents Max Tegmark Associate Professor of Physics Precision Cosmology ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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She cites MIT founder William Barton Rogers's 1860 exhortation for "the most earnest cooperation of intelligent culture with industrial pursuits" as the paradigm of learning by doing, the ideal way to gain and apply knowledge. SPEAKER: Anjali Sastry '86, PhD '95 Senior Lecturer, Management Science, MIT Sloan PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Obviously we've got to tackle global warming and carbon emissions, but we also need to tackle poverty." -- Anjali Sastry EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [NEUROECONOMICS] A pioneer in a "dangerously hot research area," Drazen Prelec peers into the human brain while it makes decisions, and shares his insights on the process. SPEAKER: Drazen Prelec Digital Equipment Corporation LFM Professor of Management Science Professor, Department of Economics Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "You almost can't think about human behavior without thinking about what it ought to be like, and when you see it's not that way, that's when insight starts to come." -- Drazen Prelec EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Alumni Association Technology Day 2008 presents Dave Newman Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems A New Age of Exploration: From Earth to Mars ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Sloan Management Review INNOVATIONS IN MANAGEMENT >From the world's leading management thinkers, teachers, and writers MIT Sloan Management Review brings you research, ideas and opinions on the state of management practice today. From fascinating research on the powerful global companies of the moment, to thoughtful and considered essays and opinions, The Review provides a substantive, invaluable look ahead to the coming changes in the practice of management. "Clearly you are staking out the high ground as the leading journal for business innovation." Sign up for the free MIT SMR e-newsletter and receive "The Art of Making Change Initiatives Stick" 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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