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Conference</font> presents</div>
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<div align="center"><b>F. Thomson Leighton</b></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Co-Founder and Chief
Scientist, Akamai</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>MIT Professor of Applied
Mathematics</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>"The Akamai Story:
>From Theory to Practice"</b></font><br>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Tom Leighton tells an
amazing modern day adventure story that is full of insights, lessons,
tipping points and surprises. Hear how Akamai grew from a
reluctant 8-page business plan in the MIT 50k Competition to a world
leader in distributing content on the web for everyone from ESPN to
Land's End to Microsoft.</font></div>
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<div align="center">The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
presents</div>
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<div align="center"><b>Susan Lindquist</b></div>
<div align="center"><b>Director, Whitehead Institute</b></div>
<div align="center"><b>MIT<font color="#000000"> Professor of
Biology</font></b></div>
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<div align="center"><b>"Are We as Crazy as Mad
Cows?"</b></div>
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<div align="center">Lindquist explains the process of protein folding,
and the terrible outcomes when the folding goes wrong. In this
presentation filled with vivid and memorable slides, she explains and
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time to do the damage that it does. </div>
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<div><font face="Charcoal" color="#000000">"The Origin of Mass
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