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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:50:15 -0500
Subject: [Mitworld] Ronald Rivest on Cryptography,
MIT150 Panel on Microeconomics and Regulation
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 10, Number 32 | March 10, 2011
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The Growth of Cryptography
February 8, 2011
It?s not every day that Euclid appears in public with ?Alice and Bob,? but in a lecture spanning a
few thousand years, Ronald Rivest summons these and other notables in his history of cryptography.
While citing milestones of code-making and breaking, Rivest also brings his audience up to date on
the latest systems for securing information and communication networks, which owe much to his
own research.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/879
Speaker:
Ronald Rivest
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Event Host:
The Office of the President of MIT
"Cryptography increases transparency and verifiability. Maybe large prime numbers have a role to
play in our democracy down the road a bit."
-Ronald Rivest
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Economic Policy Challenges: Microeconomics and Regulation
January 27, 2011
Given its contributions to policy and practice in such key sectors as health care, industrial
organization and technological innovation, and energy and the environment, microeconomics may not
be getting the kind of respect, or at least attention, it deserves, these panelists suggest.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/877
Moderator:
Nancy Lin Rose PhD '85
Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom
"It?s frankly amazing when you look across energy and environmental policy the extent to which policy
is still inefficiently pursuing goals that don?t make much sense. The problems really are political,
not technical, and come from the fact that this stuff tends to be on the second page of
the business section.
"
-Richard Schmalensee
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In The Pipeline:
How to Make a Great Mistake
Presented By:
MIT Sloan School of Management
Dean?s Innovative Leader Series
Speaker:
Ellyn McColgan
Director
Primerica, Inc.
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:31:04 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Ellyn McColgan on Making Mistakes,
MIT150 Panel on Finance Technology
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 10, Number 33 | March 16, 2011
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How to Make a Great Mistake
February 24, 2011
Take it from Ellyn McColgan: Colossal, cringe-inducing screw-ups can make rather than break a career.
In a self-deprecating talk aimed at educating an audience training for corporate leadership, McColgan,
who rose to run businesses managing trillions in assets, reveals how she learned from even the
most devastating mistakes.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/885
Speaker:
Ellyn McColgan
Director, Primerica, Inc. and Executive Advisor, Aquiline-LLC
Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management
"Leadership is about bringing people to a place they will not go to by themselves. Making mistakes
helps you to learn your own limits and the limits of the organization... This by the way, is the
secret to having a life worth living. Do not be afraid. Instead, make your motto: be big, be brave, be bold."
-Ellyn McColgan
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The Evolution of Financial Technology
January 28, 2011
An unmistakable glow of nostalgia rises from this reunion of ?five of the founding fathers of
modern finance,? in the words of Andrew Lo. The speakers reminisce about their start in economics,
and their professional lives at MIT, a decades-long era of intense collaboration and creativity that
both transformed the academic field and the landscape of real-world finance.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/878
Moderator:
Andrew Lo
Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom
"My guess is we?d all say it wasn?t the models that caused the crisis. It was misuse or overconfidence
in the models, or lack of comprehension of downstream effects of what various people were doing, or
the dangers they were unwittingly running. It?s true that modern finance is a powerful tool and can
be misused, but that?s not a reason to discard the tool. That?s a reason to use it better."
-Stewart C. Myers
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Inside Tahrir Square
Presented By:
Center for International Studies
Starr Forum
Speaker:
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:15:26 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Roland Martin, Susan Hockfield, Khalea Robinson,
Pierre Fuller at MLK Breakfast Celebration
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 10, Number 34 | March 18, 2011
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Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice and the Quality of Life
February 9, 2011
Exploring the past opens up new perspectives on the present and offers ways of navigating a challenging
future, these speakers suggest, in a call to action on the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.?s birthday.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/883
Speakers:
Dr. Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Professor of Neuroscience
Roland Martin
Journalist and CNN contributor
Event Host:
MIT Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There?s a capacity to change the direction of the country,
and world, if only people would accept the strong level of leadership that resides in them right now. "
-Roland Martin
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Excellence is a Shared Path: Student Remarks
February 9, 2011
In their remarks honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two students strike the
theme of collaboration. They touch on the importance of humility and listening to one?s inner voice
while pursuing a shared vision of justice and equality.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/882
Speakers:
Khalea Robinson
'11, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Pierre Fuller SM '09
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Event Host:
MIT Annual Breakfast Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The truth is that the academic elite are not the sole proprietors of solutions to the world?s problems,
and that the wealthy few do not own the key to eradicating poverty. We must humble our hearts. "
-Pierre Fuller
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Energy Education Showcase: How MIT is Preparing Students for New Challenges
Presented By:
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Speaker:
Vladimir Bulovic
Robert Jaffe
Donald Lessard
Leon Glicksman
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:42:07 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Panel on The Fruits of Diversity,
Antoinette Schoar on CEOs and the Economy
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 10, Number 35 | March 25, 2011
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The Fruits of Diversity
February 10, 2011
In a panel that offers a bounty of visual and aural pleasures, a museum curator and two artists
describe how their work ?dissolves boundaries,? in the words of moderator Adele Naude Santos,
often ?leading to new frontiers.?
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/884
Moderator:
Adele Naude Santos
Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom
"To create something new, you have to respect what came before you ... There is always some connection
to the past. The trick is learning from that and letting go."
-Donal Fox
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Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Management Style
June 5, 2010
After collecting detailed data about the career paths of CEOs from the largest 1500 publicly traded
firms between 1990 and 2007, Antoinette Schoar shows how boom and bust cycles influence these CEOs.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/793
Speaker:
Antoinette Schoar
Michael M. Koerner (1949) Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance
MIT Sloan School of Management
Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management
"Over the last few years we?ve talked a lot about recessions and about how recessions impact people?s
lives and?the economy. I want to show?a different channel?[about] how economic ups and down affect
how managers manage their firms and how they think about priorities for their firms."
-Antoinette Schoar
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In The Pipeline:
Japan?s Nuclear Crisis
Presented By:
Center for International Studies
Starr Forum
Speaker:
Richard Samuels
Kenneth Oye
Michael Golay
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:40:25 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Inside Tahrir Square, MIT150 Panel on Finance in Action
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MIT World Newsletter
Volume 10, Number 36 | March 28, 2011
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Inside Tahrir Square
February 25, 2011
Greek journalist Iason Athanasiadis offers a remarkably intimate photographic portrait of the
Egyptian revolt from its epicenter in Tahrir Square, following the brutal attacks by government
loyalists on protesters on January 25th. David Weinberg provides perspectives on US policy in the Middle East.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/887
Speakers:
Iason Athanasiadis
Journalist
David Weinberg
Graduate student, Department of Political Science, MIT
Kristin Fabbe
Graduate student, Department of Political Science, MIT
Event Host:
Center for International Studies
"The revolution was about participating in parliamentary democracy, but the real spark was Tunisia,
and the rise in price of basic foodstuffs."
-Iason Athanasiadis
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Finance in Action
January 28, 2011
Stewart Myers introduces the panelists as distinguished academics and practitioners who share their
innovative application of finance theory to entrepreneurship.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/880
Moderator:
Stewart C. Myers
Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics,
MIT Sloan School of Management
Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom
"If we don?t make sure people understand that there are real consequences to what happens, that real
people?s lives are affected, then all?the modeling and the financial science can create some fairly
amoral individuals who go out and do terrible things that hurt real people in their lives."
-Bennett Golub
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In The Pipeline:
Reflections on Major Milestones in Cancer Research and Technology Development
Presented By:
MIT150
Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering
Speaker:
Nancy Hopkins
Phillip A. Sharp
Jacqueline Lees
Robert S. Langer
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