From mit.world at mit.edu Wed Feb 2 14:43:59 2011 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:43:59 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] Kent Kresa on an Engineering Career, Sanjay Sarma on Energy and Vehicle Emissions Logging Message-ID: <201102021943.p12Jhx71020588@mrkrabs.MIT.EDU> MIT World Newsletter Volume 10, Number 27 | February 2, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------- An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out December 1, 2010 Kent Kresa describes how an MIT education helped shape his professional path, leading to a topflight career in the aviation and defense industry. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/866 Speaker: Kent Kresa '59, SM '61, EAA '66 Chairman Emeritus, Northrop Grumman Corporation Event Host: MIT School of Engineering "As the 21st century unfolds, engineering will become central and influential in society. We have tremendous technological needs in infrastructure renewal, cyber security, energy sourcing, environmental sustainability. The people who think through what is needed and ... are going to be important in making the solutions happen. That is mostly the engineering and science population." -Kent Kresa -------------------------------------------------------------- Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles November 30, 2010 Sanjay Sarma has been investigating ways to take advantage of the on board diagnostic (OBD) module that records and conveys information about the vehicle?s components and systems. Sarma hopes to make the OBD increasingly useful and essential to consumers concerned about their fuel consumption and carbon footprint. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/867 Speaker: Sanjay Sarma Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Event Host: Transportation at MIT "When we think of roads, we think in terms of distances, but cars don?t know distance, cars know fuel consumption. On bad days,with bad traffic, the road kind of warps. It becomes much longer than on a good day. It?s changing on you, like in Star Wars. The distance is greater in terms of energy consumed." -Sanjay Sarma -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Gaza in Crisis Presented By: Center for International Studies Speaker: Noam Chomsky Institute Professor, Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, MIT Nancy Murray Co-founder and President, Gaza Mental Health Foundation -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Facebook New videos posted to Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-World/203063341516

Find newest videos on Facebook. We also feature lectures of topics in the news--at MIT and in the world. Become a Fan, or add MIT World to things you Like on Facebook today http://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-World/203063341516 -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly: Write to mitworld-request at mit.edu with "unsubscribe" in the subject line -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20110202/aa19c419/attachment.htm From mit.world at mit.edu Wed Feb 9 14:20:43 2011 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:20:43 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] Communications in Slow-Moving Crises, Jose Maria Aznar on Economic Growth in Europe Message-ID: <201102091920.p19JKhG5030785@mrkrabs.MIT.EDU> MIT World Newsletter Volume 10, Number 28 | February 9, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------- Communications in Slow-Moving Crises November 18, 2010 These panelists discuss how to approach slowly evolving but urgent stories at a time when news coverage has shifted inexorably from print and its variable deadlines to the constant, repetitive churn of cable news and instant internet information. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/869 Moderator: Thomas Levenson Professor, Program Head and Director of the Graduate Program, Writing and Humanistic Studies Documentary producer Event Host: MIT Communications Forum "'Crisis' combined with 'slow-moving' is an oxymoron, a contradiction. That is interesting. It says something is happening in the world that hasn?t happened before and our language hasn?t caught up with events. " -Rosalind Williams -------------------------------------------------------------- Relaunching Growth in Europe December 6, 2010 Jos? Mar?a Aznar finds it difficult to witness the calamitous decline of Spain, a nation he led to robust economic health as prime minister from 1996 to 2004. The gains during his administration have vanished following the international financial crisis. But the economic misfortunes of Spain and other European nations are actually long-standing, Aznar says, and represent a profound underlying ?political, cultural and social crisis? suffered by the entire European continent. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/868 Speaker: Jos? Mar?a Aznar Former Prime Minister, Spain Event Host: MIT Sloan School of Management "I honestly believe right now that political intervention in the economy has trespassed all reasonable limits and has invaded areas which should not be under its scope. The consensus around the European social model have been damaged by this." -Jos? Mar?a Aznar -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: The Future of Finance Presented By: MIT150 Inventional Wisdom Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy Speaker: Robert C. Merton MIT Sloan School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Twittter Follow MIT World on Twitter
140 characters at a time http://twitter.com/#!/MITWorld

New videos are posted on Twitter--a new way to keep up with MIT World. http://twitter.com/#!/MITWorld -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly: Write to mitworld-request at mit.edu with "unsubscribe" in the subject line -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20110209/bdc720d4/attachment.htm From mit.world at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 16 10:18:08 2011 From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:18:08 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] MIT150 Economic Science Evolution, James Simons on Mathematics and His Careers Message-ID: <201102161518.p1GFI8GT015875@mrkrabs.MIT.EDU> MIT World Newsletter Volume 10, Number 29 | February 16, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------- The Evolution of Economic Science: Individual and Firm Behavior January 27, 2011 As they discuss the evolution of the economics profession and their own work, a distinguished group of economists also attest to MIT?s unique role as a place of research, teaching, and influence in the larger world. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/872 Moderator: James Poterba Mitsui Professor of Economics, MIT Event Host: MIT150 Inventional Wisdom "Looking back at the (MIT Economics) history ... an incredibly long list of contributions emerged: the theory of public goods, full-employment deficit, growth theory, optimal tax theory, optimal temporal consumption ... All these things have emerged from a melting pot of analytical tools and mathematical methods, mixed with a healthy interest in real world questions, grounded in real world problems." -James Poterba -------------------------------------------------------------- Mathematics, Common Sense, and Good Luck: My Life and Careers December 9, 2010 Don?t expect to glean any market tips or trading secrets from James Simons, who steadfastly refuses to disclose the method behind his remarkable record in investing. Instead, listen to this mathematician, hedge fund manager and philanthropist sum up a remarkably varied and rich career, and offer some ?guiding principles? distilled along the way. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/870 Speaker: James Simons '58 President, Euclidean CapitalFounder and Chairman, Math for America Event Host: MIT School of Science "Be guided by beauty. Everything I?ve done has had an aesthetic component to me. Building a company trading bonds, what?s aesthetic? ... If you?re the first one to do it right, it?s a terrific feeling and a beautiful thing to do something right, like solving a math problem." -James Simons -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice and the Quality of Life Presented By: MIT Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaker: Roland Martin Journalist, Political Analyst -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Twittter Follow MIT World on Twitter
140 characters at a time http://twitter.com/#!/MITWorld

New videos are posted on Twitter--a new way to keep up with MIT World. http://twitter.com/#!/MITWorld -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 mit.world at mit.edu | http://mitworld.mit.edu You are viewing this email because you have subscribed to the MIT World Newsletter Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly: Write to mitworld-request at mit.edu with "unsubscribe" in the subject line -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitworld/attachments/20110216/dbf2dd90/attachment.htm From mit.world at mit.edu Wed Feb 23 12:03:18 2011 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:03:18 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] Robert Solow, Peter Diamond, Robert Hall, Esther Duflo on Macroeconomics, Seth Teller on Robots Message-ID: <201102231703.p1NH3IoU031540@mrkrabs.MIT.EDU> MIT World Newsletter Volume 10, Number 30 | February 23, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------- The Evolution of Economic Science: Macroeconomics, Growth, and Development January 27, 2011 This panel first looks inward, at the evolution of macroeconomics in the past century, and the emergence of microeconomic foundations in macroeconomics, then shifts outward, to the application of economic analysis to such issues as structural unemployment, the ongoing U.S. recession, and the best ways to help developing nations. Panelists: Robert M. Solow, Peter Diamond, Robert Hall, Esther Duflo http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/874 Moderator: Daron Acemoglu James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT Event Host: MIT150 Inventional Wisdom "A government that spends money...supporting higher education, supporting technological innovation, supporting R&D generally, certainly has more than a prayer, a likelihood, of affecting the steady state rate of growth." -Robert Solow -------------------------------------------------------------- Perceptive Mobile Robots Working Safely Alongside Humans December 7, 2010 Although we are still far from the moment of singularity, or even Star Wars ?droids, we can anticipate robot colleagues in the near future, believes Seth Teller. He is developing ?situationally aware? machines to help out humans in those ?unstructured environments?where we live, work and recreate. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/871 Speaker: Seth Teller Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Event Host: Transportation at MIT "We?re working with ways of creating natural interactions between humans and robots, paying attention to notions of human acceptance or cultural tolerability." -Seth Teller -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: The Fruits of Diversity Presented By: MIT150 Inventional Wisdom Human Diversity and Social Order Moderator: Adele Naude Santos Dean MIT School of Architecture and Planning -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World on Twittter Follow MIT World on Twitter
140 characters at a time http://twitter.com/#!/MITWorld