From mit.world at MIT.EDU Wed Jun 3 07:43:19 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:43:19 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Archives and History, Agarwal on the Future of Computing
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 41 | June 3, 2009
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Archives and History
April 24, 2009
Archivists, librarians, and historians reflect the anxiety and exhilaration of a digital age that is
constantly transforming their disciplines.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/674
Moderator:
Peter Walsh
Webmaster, Andover Newton Theological School
Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum
"Persistence in the digital world does not happen by luck but through intentional action and
explicit investment. The odds that bits will survive in a shoe box in the attic are pretty small."
-Ann J. Wolpert
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The Future of Computing
April 28, 2009
Wielding numerous analogies in this Principles of Engineering Practice lecture, Anant Agarwal makes
the case that the next generation of computers, not to mention much of the technology in everyday
life, will be built with smaller, simpler parts ?combined in a clever way."
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/671
Speaker:
Anant Agarwal
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Associate Director, CSAIL, MIT
Event Host:
Materials Processing Center
"There?s a movement in engineering where simple things are put together to make a powerful
big thing. Look for things like that in life; it?s a good engineering principle."
-Anant Agarwal
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In The Pipeline:
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's Opportunities
Presented By:
MIT Enterprise Forum
Moderator:
William Aulet
Senior Lecturer
MIT Sloan School of Management
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From mit.world at MIT.EDU Wed Jun 10 13:29:45 2009
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:29:45 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Ochsendorf on Engineering in the Ecological Age,
Buonassisi on Next Generation Solar Cells
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 42 | June 10, 2009
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Engineering for the Ecological Age: Lessons from History
May 1, 2009
As composers know Mozart, and philosophers know the works of Plato, says Ochsendorf, the next
generation of engineers must review the works of their forebears, if they?re to maintain
existing infrastructure, and create better designs for the future.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/673
Speaker:
John Ochsendorf
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT
2008 MacArthur Fellow
Event Host:
Program in Science, Technology and Society
"The 21st century is going to be a wild ride in terms of natural resources. We need to rethink
the ways we?re using and consuming resources, and the way we meet our needs and live the affluent
lifestyles we?re accustomed to while dealing with climate change, when carbon emissions reach
levels unseen for a few hundred thousand years."
-John Ochsendorf
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Next Generation Solar Cells
Lowering Costs, Improving Performance and Scale
May 5, 2009
According to Tonio Buonassisi, we?re ?on the cusp? of achieving a competitive technology for
capturing the limitless energy of the sun. Buonassisi, in conversation with an MIT Museum audience,
describes how, with the work of MIT and other researchers, photovoltaics may finally be
coming into its own.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/675
Speaker:
Tonio Buonassisi
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Event Host:
MIT Museum
"The sun is a nuclear reactor, about 100 million miles away, producing orders of magnitude more
energy than we?re actually consuming. If we could only capture a small percentage of the energy
reaching the Earth?s surface, we?d be in good shape."
-Tonio Buonassisi
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In The Pipeline:
Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells
Presented By:
MIT Museum Soap Box Series
Speaker:
Vladimir Bulovic
KDD Associate Professor of Communications and Technology
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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From mit.world at MIT.EDU Wed Jun 17 10:37:20 2009
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:37:20 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Hockfield and Sur on Brain Research at MIT,
Mark Bear on Autism
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 8, Number 43 | June 17, 2009
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Introduction/Overview of Brain Disorders
May 4, 2009
In their symposium introduction, Susan Hockfield and Mriganka Sur place MIT at the forefront
of a revolution in neuroscience. Hockfield, MIT President and Professor of Neuroscience, recaps
the evolution of the discipline at MIT, from its 1964 start in the Department of Psychology to
the more recent establishment of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Sur explains how MIT addresses research problems through a ?unique interdisciplinary effort?
comprising molecular biology, neuron and cognitive science, and computation.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/677
Speakers:
Dr. Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Professor of Neuroscience
Mriganka Sur
Newton Professor in Neuroscience
Head, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Event Host:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
"At MIT we love bold experiments, the kind that change the rules, and we have an impressive record
of making bets that win. That fearless experimental spirit coupled with intense collaboration among
investigators, with the support of philanthropic friends, is exactly what will drive us
to the next level in brain research."
-Susan Hockfield
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The Autistic Neuron
May 4, 2009
This self-described ?basic neuroscientist? confesses he never thought he?d give a talk on autism,
but as Mark Bear recounts, decades of research in the basics are now paying off with important
insights into the etiology and treatment of brain disorders, including autism.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/678
Speaker:
Mark Bear
Director, and Picower Professor of Neuroscience
The Picower Center for Learning and MemoryInvestigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Event Host:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
"No single lab can answer all the questions (about autism). But the payoff will be tangible
and huge. ... By understanding the pathobiology, the pathophysiology, we hope to come up with
therapeutic interventions that are more than palliative -- that is, disease modifying interventions
to correct the course of the disease."
-Mark Bear
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The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research
Presented By:
Office of the President
Karl Taylor Compton Lecture
Speaker:
Steven Chu
U.S. Secretary of Energy
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