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<p style="color: #777777;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;margin: 0;padding: 0 0 10px 0;">Volume 8, Number 47</p>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"Can we design a modern-day equivalent of Lincoln Labs or Los Alamos, focused on mission driven research, but also connected to fundamental research and the industrial world?"</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Steven Chu</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/683" style="color: #94353b;">The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">May 12, 2009</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Just as science in the 1970s produced a “green revolution” in agricultural productivity, preventing mass starvation in a swelling global population, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is counting on transformative scientific and engineering ideas to achieve sustainable energy and cap climate change. </p>
<h3 style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;margin:0;padding-top:20px;text-transform:uppercase;">Speaker</h3>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Steven Chu</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">U.S. Secretary of Energy
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<p style="color: #94353b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;"><div style="width:200px;"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/hockfield/" style="color: #94353b;">The Office of the President of MIT</a></div>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"The future of publishing will be building communities around works. An old-school author’s commitment is to engage with a subject matter on behalf of future readers. A new-school
author makes a commitment to engage with readers in the context of particular subject. "</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Bob Stein</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/685" style="color: #94353b;">The Future of Publishing</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">April 25, 2009</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Nostalgia, anxiety and optimism mix in this panel devoted to imagining what lies ahead for the book, as publishing professionals and others discuss the impact of digital technology on the book publishing business.</p>
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<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Geoffrey Long</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Researcher and Communications Director, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, Comparative Media Studies, MIT </p>
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<h3 style="color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;margin:0;padding-top:0;text-transform:uppercase;">In The Pipeline:</h3>
<h3 style="color: #ffffff;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 22px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:15px;">The Mysterious Field of Engineering Systems</h3>
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<p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Engineering Systems Division<BR> International Engineering Systems Symposium</p>
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<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Norman R. Augustine</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Retired, Chairman and CEO <br />Lockheed Martin Corporation </p>
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