From mit.world at MIT.EDU Tue Aug 4 17:33:03 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 17:33:03 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Scolnick on Research in Psychiatric Illnesses,
Huang on Rural China
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 50 | August 5, 2009
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New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
May 4, 2009
Edward Scolnick hopes the research drought for psychiatric illnesses may be over, as the current revolution in human genetics opens wide a door into the molecular biology and brain physiology behind diseases like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/687
Speaker:
Edward Scolnick
Director, Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute
Event Host:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
"For the first time, science has the ability to unravel the underlying causes of severe mental illness ... For the first time in the history of the field, there?s a way forward that can lead to significant improvement in diagnosis and therapy, and there?s no place in the world better than this university to carry out the work."
-Edward Scolnick
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Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key
June 6, 2009
Yasheng Huang?s research reveals not only how small-scale rural businesses created China?s economic miracle but how that nation?s recovery from the global recession and righting the massive East-West trade imbalance depend on this same under-acknowledged sector.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/692
Speaker:
Yasheng Huang
China Program Associate Professor in International Management, and Founder, China-India Lab, MIT Sloan
Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management
"I worry about the ideological fallout from the U.S. financial crisis when government is now viewed
as the savior. It is in the context of the U.S. But for China and India, the main issue continues to be liberalization rather than government assuming more roles in economic management. I?m worried people will learn the wrong lesson from this crisis, and believe government should play a bigger role. "
-Yasheng Huang
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In The Pipeline:
MIT Perspective on Engineering Systems
Presented By:
Engineering Systems Division
International Engineering Systems Symposium
Speaker:
Subra Suresh
Dean, MIT School of Engineering
Yossi Sheffi
Director, Engineering Systems Division
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From mit.world at MIT.EDU Wed Aug 12 14:24:56 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:24:56 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Hockfield and Saxe from Tech Day,
Barnett on Airline Safety
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 51 | August 12, 2009
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Opening Remarks/How the Brain Invents the Mind
June 6, 2009
In opening remarks, Susan Hockfield remains optimistic and committed to pursuing MIT?s massive, multi-year initiatives in energy and life sciences, even in trying financial times.
Then, fellow neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe outlines her research investigating the neural basis for a
Theory of Mind -- how the human mind seems geared to ?glean what others are thinking and feeling.?
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/693
Speakers:
Dr. Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Professor of Neuroscience
Rebecca Saxe Ph.D. '03
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Fred and Carole Middleton Career Development Professorship, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Event Host:
Alumni Association
"There?s a new administration in Washington, one that values science, analysis, and research...
We hope that it will be cool to be smart."
-Susan Hockfield
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Air Safety: Nothing But Blue Skies?
June 6, 2009
Arnold Barnett returns with new insights into aviation and aviation safety, and remains
remarkably consistent in his quite sunny assessment of the current state of
aviation safety -- even after a recent string of air accidents.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/691
Speaker:
Arnold I. Barnett PhD '73
George Eastman Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management
Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management
"There?s lots to worry about these days. Aviation risks are not the primary source of it. The skies
are not blue without clouds. Is that a reason to stay out of the sky...? The answer is no.
"
-Arnold Barnett
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In The Pipeline:
Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy for Movement Disorders
Presented By:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
The Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease
Speaker:
Andres Lozano
University of Toronto
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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Healthcare, Energy, Space, and the Environment
October 22-23, 2009 at MIT
http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09
Sponsored by the MIT System Design and Management Program
Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems
thinking to some of the most complex challenges facing today's world. Speakers will describe the use of systems thinking in
healthcare, energy, space, and the environment and how the lessons learned can be adapted and
applied across a wide range of industries.
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938
http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09
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From mit.world at MIT.EDU Wed Aug 19 12:00:41 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:00:41 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Sinha on Vision, Winston on Artificial Intelligence
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 52 | August 19, 2009
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Opening the Mind?s Eye- Learning to See
June 6, 2009
It?s rare to find research that simultaneously advances basic science and brings immediate good
into people?s lives, but Pawan Sinha?s Project Prakash does precisely that. An investigator of
human visual processing, Sinha is interested in how these brain mechanisms develop, and in treating India's vast population of blind children.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/694
Speaker:
Pawan Sinha SM '92, PhD '95
Associate Professor of Computational Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Event Host:
Alumni Association
"Whenever we?re asked how the brain does X or Y, the impulse is to work with this beloved
creature, the human infant, to see how it acquires different capabilities... But there are
challenges: Babies are not interested in being experimental subjects. They?d rather sleep
than give us good data."
-Pawan Sinha
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Computers with Commonsense: Artificial Intelligence at the MIT Round Table
June 6, 2009
Patrick Henry Winston ponders what makes humans different from our primate cousins. His field of
artificial intelligence extends that question to thinking about how humans differ from computers,
with a goal to ?develop a computational theory of intelligence.?
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/695
Speaker:
Patrick Henry Winston '65, SM '67, PhD '70
Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, MIT
Event Host:
Alumni Association
"We think with our eyes?vision is the locus of every profound kind of problem solving."
-Patrick Henry Winston
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In The Pipeline:
Vacation
Presented By:
MIT World
With this newsletter, MIT World completes its 8th year of publication with 108 new lectures published since September ? reaching a total of 671 in the collection. We will take our annual hiatus, and will resume publication on September 9, 2009.Thanks to MIT World content hosts, production partners, and our sponsors, the Office of the Vice President for Institute Affairs at MIT, and The Lord Foundation of Massachusetts.
See you in September.
Speaker:
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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Healthcare, Energy, Space, and the Environment
October 22-23, 2009 at MIT
http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09
Sponsored by the MIT System Design and Management Program
Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems
thinking to some of the most complex challenges facing today's world.
Hear Dr. Sharon Nunes, IBM's VP of Big Green Innovations, speak on Smart Systems for Planetary Water Management.
The presentation will focus on the role of IT in managing and conserving this critical natural resource.
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938
http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09
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