From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Thu Jul  9 23:22:30 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:22:30 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Li-Huei Tsai on Alzheimer's Disease,
	Media in Transition Panel on Civic Media
Message-ID: <200907100322.n6A3MUAP013852@mrkrabs.mit.edu>

MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 44 |  July 10, 2009

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Alzheimer?s Disease: Current State and Hope for the Future
May 4, 2009

As life expectancy lengthens, Alzheimer?s Disease is anticipated to triple in prevalence over the 
next few decades. The disease is found in nearly 50% of people age 85 and older. Triply higher 
medical costs are incurred by seniors with Alzheimer?s. These daunting facts give urgency and weight to 
molecular neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai?s research.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/679

Speaker:
Li-Huei Tsai
Picower Professor of Neurocience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MITInvestigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School


Event Host:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

"Currently there is no treatment that can prevent, delay or reverse Alzheimer?s Disease."
-Li-Huei Tsai

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New Media, Civic Media
April 24, 2009

As old media die, new forms are emerging, but it?s not clear they will serve such vital civic 
functions as helping people form publics. These panelists point to promising experiments 
in ?Public Media 2.0,? but caution that new media are not guaranteed to shore up democracy 
or invigorate public culture.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/676

Moderator:
Pat Aufderheide
Professor, School of Communications, American University 
 Director, Center for Social Media

Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"For-profit, ad-supported mass media that was the way America got its reporting is a strange 
historical accident. I think it?s over; it?s not going to happen anymore."
-Persephone Miel

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In The Pipeline:

Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained

Presented By:
MIT Museum Soap Box Series

Speaker:
Marc Baldo
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 

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MIT Center for Real Estate<BR>Professional Development Institute
Summer and Fall Courses for Professionals						

http://mit.edu/cre/development

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	?Finance and Development
	?Strategic Thinking
	?Innovation and Entrepreneurship
	?Loan Workouts
	?Assisted Living
        ?New Markets Tax Credits



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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Mon Jul 13 10:22:02 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:22:02 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Linda Mason on a Life and a Career,
	Panel on Media Storage
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 45 |  July 14, 2009

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Composing a Career and Life
May 7, 2009

Bright Horizon's founder Linda Mason tells an inspiring story as a recession-era entrepreneur who built several 
hugely successful, socially oriented ventures, navigating very real pitfalls and challenges 
along the way.  Her ?nonlinear path? yielded important life lessons, which she shares in this talk.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/680

Speaker:
Linda Mason
Chairman and Co-Founder, Bright Horizons Family SolutionsChair, Mercy Corps


Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"We kept selling (Bright Horizons) to corporations, who saw us as flaky Peace Corps types. And 
the early education experts saw us as slick Yale MBAs who didn?t understand early education. 
We were neither extreme, just two young people with an idea we were really committed to implementing."
-Linda Mason

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Institutional Perspectives on Storage
April 25, 2009

What do we save and how do we store it?

European archivists grapple with the legal obligations, civic responsibilities and future prospects 
of their collections, which, thanks to the Internet and other new technologies, are increasingly 
awash in image and sound.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/681

Moderator:
William C. Uricchio
Co-Director, Comparative Media Studies Program and Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT
Professor of Comparative Media History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"Twenty, 50 or 100 years from now, when scholars or academics look for evidence and testimony 
for what the 21st century was, or cultural trends, historical events or debates that stirred 
society at the time, web archives will be a necessary and valuable source.
"
-Claude Mussou

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In The Pipeline:

The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World?s Brains on your Innovation Challenges

Presented By:
MIT Sloan School of Management 
Back to the Classroom 2009

Speaker:
Fiona Murray
Sarofim Family Career Development Professor
MIT Sloan School of Management

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MIT Center for Real Estate<BR>Professional Development Institute
Summer and Fall Courses for Professionals						

http://mit.edu/cre/development

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	?Finance and Development
	?Strategic Thinking
	?Innovation and Entrepreneurship
	?Loan Workouts
	?Assisted Living
        ?New Markets Tax Credits



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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Fri Jul 17 05:50:35 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:50:35 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Energy Entrepreneurship, Panel on US-Iran Relations
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 46 |  July 17, 2009

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Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today&#39;s Challenges, Tomorrow&#39;s Opportunities 
May 7, 2009

There are ample opportunities for new energy entrepreneurs, these panelists agree, but motivation 
and certain kinds of know-how play key roles in bringing new ventures to fruition.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/684

Moderator:
William Aulet SM '94
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management 

Event Host:
MIT Enterprise Forum

"This is a fun time to be a technologist. This is a data-driven opportunity. You can?t lie. 
Energy efficiency is all about statistics."
-Christina Lampe-Onnerud

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U.S.-Iran Relations
May 5, 2009

While Barack Obama has rejected the Bush administration?s harsh stance toward Iran, panelists 
warn that we?re far from the start of fruitful relations, and that achieving real diplomacy 
will paradoxically require both patience and a sense of urgency. (Note: This panel discussion
was recorded 6 weeks before the 2009 Iranian presidential election.)

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/682

Moderator:
Barry Posen
Ford International Professor of Political Science

Director, CIS Security Studies Program, MIT

Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"We need to approach Iran in a direct and sustained way to clarify US intentions in the region 
while building confidence and trust. Such an approach will require each side to exercise great 
restraint. Distrust will continue, there will be frequent setbacks, but it could lead to greater 
mutual understanding and a learned capacity to make progress on some of the most pressing 
issues in the region."
-Suzanna DiMaggio

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In The Pipeline:

Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key

Presented By:
MIT Sloan School of Management 
Back to the Classroom 2009

Speaker:
Yasheng Huang
China Program Associate Professor of International Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

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MIT Center for Real Estate<BR>Professional Development Institute
Summer and Fall Courses for Professionals						

http://mit.edu/cre/development

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	?Finance and Development
	?Strategic Thinking
	?Innovation and Entrepreneurship
	?Loan Workouts
	?Assisted Living
        ?New Markets Tax Credits



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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Wed Jul 22 11:40:34 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:40:34 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Steven Chu on Energy, Panel on the Future of Publishing
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 47 |  July 22, 2009

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The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research
May 12, 2009

Just as science in the 1970s produced a ?green revolution? in agricultural productivity, preventing mass starvation in a swelling global population, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is counting on transformative scientific and engineering ideas to achieve sustainable energy and cap climate change. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/683

Speaker:
Steven Chu
U.S. Secretary of Energy



Event Host:
The Office of the President of MIT

"Can we design a modern-day equivalent of Lincoln Labs or Los Alamos, focused on mission driven research, but also connected to fundamental research and the industrial world?"
-Steven Chu

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The Future of Publishing
April 25, 2009

Nostalgia, anxiety and optimism mix in this panel devoted to imagining what lies ahead for the book, as publishing professionals and others discuss the impact of digital technology on the book publishing business.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/685

Moderator:
Geoffrey Long
Researcher and Communications Director, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, Comparative Media Studies, MIT

Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"The future of publishing will be building communities around works. An old-school author?s commitment is to engage with a subject matter on behalf of future readers. A new-school 
author makes a commitment to engage with readers in the context of particular subject. "
-Bob Stein

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In The Pipeline:

The Mysterious Field of Engineering Systems

Presented By:
Engineering Systems Division
 International Engineering Systems Symposium

Speaker:
Norman R. Augustine
Retired, Chairman and CEO
Lockheed Martin Corporation

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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Fri Jul 24 08:48:40 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:48:40 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Bulovic on Solar Cells, Summary from Media in Transisiton
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 48 |  July 24, 2009

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Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells
May 12, 2009

Vladimir Bulovic wants to end the exorbitant use of power for lighting, and simultaneously brighten our lives more pleasantly, with the application of nanostructure materials 
called quantum dots.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/686

Speaker:
Vladimir Bulovic
KDD Associate Professor of Communications and Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"By tuning mixtures of quantum dots, we can make anything we want, by simply optically exciting quantum dots..... Beautiful colors. All the colors needed to trick the eye into seeing any color of the rainbow."
-Vladimir Bulovic

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Media in Transition 6: Summary Perspectives
April 26, 2009

At the end of the three-day Media in Transition conference, panelists swap impressions and reactions, offering some notional themes for future symposia.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/688

Moderator:
James Paradis
Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing, Program Head, Writing and Humanistic Studies, MIT

Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"If modern Shakespeares wrote masterpieces of hypertext fiction, will modern archivists work as hard to preserve them as my heroes, the typographers A, B and apprentice C 
did to transfer Shakespeare?s plays from manuscript to print?"
-Thomas Pettitt

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In The Pipeline:

Opening the Mind?s Eye: Learning to See

Presented By:
MIT Alumni Association
Technology Day 2009

Speaker:
Pawan Sinha
Associate Professor of Computational Science
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Wed Jul 29 06:43:50 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:43:50 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Baldo on Solar Concentrators,
	Murray on the Power of Competition
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 49 |  July 29, 2009

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Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained
May 19, 2009

In this final MIT Museum Soap Box event on solar energy, Marc Baldo explains how researchers are well along in designing a highly efficient, inexpensive solar cell, and discusses why the big barrier to the dissemination of solar power in society remains the problem of installation.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/689

Speaker:
Marc Baldo
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"Making solar cells is a great problem for materials scientists and electrical engineers, but it?s a problem we?re going to mow down. We?ll definitely solve that and make them cheap. The problem is getting them into society -- that?s the main challenge."
-Marc Baldo

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The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World?s Brains on your Innovation Challenges
June 6, 2009

Cooperation may be making us ?a little bit too nice? when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there?s nothing like competition for injecting energy into 
the process of solving key innovation problems, whether in business or society.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/690

Speaker:
Fiona Murray
Sarofim Family Career Development Professor

Associate Professor

Management of Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship


Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"Why do we all work hard when we have a race to run? Prizes establish incentives well beyond their pure monetary value. ... Winning is a motivating force, about attention and surprising others.
"
-Fiona Murray

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In The Pipeline:

How the Brain Encodes Reward

Presented By:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
 The Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease

Speaker:
Okihide Hikosaka
Neuronal Networks Section Chief
National Eye Institute

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