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<div><font color="#000000">November 2, 2004</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Dear Friends of MIT World,</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">With the arrival of our fourth season, we
want to share some new features at</font> <a
href="http://mitworld.mit.edu"><font color="#000000">MIT
World</font></a><font color="#000000">.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">First, you can now access MIT World
directly from the</font> <a href="http://mit.edu"><font
color="#000000"><u>MIT home page</u></font></a><font color="#000000">.
Find it under the<b> Education</b> heading, next to OpenCourseWare.
Click on "video" and go directly to MIT World.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Second, the video content (which now
includes more than 215 video events) is being distributed via</font> <a
href="http://www.akamai.com/index_flash.html"><font
color="#000000"><u>Akamai's 15,000 servers
worldwide</u></font></a><font color="#000000"><u>.</u> Akamai
operates the world's largest distributed network of its kind - with
servers in 65 countries. Our international visitors, as well as
those of you outside of Massachusetts will now be able to access the
video content from a server local to where you are on the Web.
This change will make the video stream more robust, and enable us to
handle increases in traffic and usage. We worked closely
with</font> <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html"><font
color="#000000"><u>MIT's OpenCourseWare</u></font></a><font
color="#000000">, whose content is also distributed by Akamai, to
provide this enhancement. We welcome Akamai as a new partner and
thank our colleagues at MIT's OpenCourseWare for their
assistance.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">The email announcements that you receive
from MIT World will soon be reformatted. The new format will
have new features including announcements about upcoming MIT sponsored
conferences, publications and events, and links to our partners.
The new email is being designed by</font> <a
href="http://www.barrett.com/"><font color="#000000"><u>Barrett
Communications</u></font></a><font color="#000000"> and will be
deployed later this fall. </font></div>
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All of these changes are in direct response to the thousands of emails
we've received with your suggestions and comments. We thank
you for your ideas and feedback. </font><br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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The MIT World Team</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">MIT World is a project of the<b> School of
Engineering's Professional Education Programs</b> and is sponsored by
the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for
Research, the School of Architecture and Planning, the School of
Engineering, the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the
Sloan School of Management, and the School of Science at
MIT.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#0000FF">Send comments to</font></div>
<div><font color="#0000FF">Project Manager</font></div>
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