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<div align="center">Brunel Lecture Series on Complex Systems
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<div align="center"><b>Sheila Widnall</b></div>
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<div align="center"><b>"The Columbia Tragedy: System Level Issues
for Engineering"</b></div>
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<div align="center">MIT Institute Professor Widnall provides a first
hand account of the process and findings of the Columbia Accident
Investigation Board. She discusses failure in multiple systems
as well as human communication that led to the destruction of the
space shuttle Columbia.</div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">authors@MIT
presents</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>William J.
Mitchell</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>"Me++
The Cyborg Self and the Networked City"</b></font></div>
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<div align="center">Bill Mitchell discusses how digital technologies
are transforming the fabric of everyday life, from smart devices that
seem to know everything about us, and hand held objects that are
always "in danger of being put down for something
else". <b> Me++</b> takes on a wide range of networking
implications, as its third chapter,<b> Wireless Bipeds</b>
concludes,<i> "I am part of the networks, and the networks are a
part of me. I show up in directories. I am visible to Google.
I link, therefore I am".</i></div>
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