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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 9, Number 2</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;">"From an engineering systems point of view, we want to understand what’s going on in the
(finance) industry and create a regulatory framework that would allow this industry to function
even under adverse conditions. We have to deal with the intra-industry web of relationships
and credit flows and what happens if some of the key nodes disappear, such as the bankruptcy of Lehman."</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">John Reed</h3>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">June 15, 2009</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">James Champy moderates this panel that uses the lens of systems engineering to focus sharply
on some signature global challenges in finance, healthcare, energy and IT. </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;">Moderator</h3>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">James A. Champy '63, SM '65</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Chairman of Consulting<br>Perot Systems Corporation<BR> <br />Life Member, MIT Corporation </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;">"One of the principle functions of the basal ganglia is to learn the values of our actions,
represent them, and pump out the data to produce choice."</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Paul Glimcher</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/702" style="color: #94353b;">Representation of Value in the Primate Brain</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">May 7, 2009</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Pigeons really like millet seed, monkeys crave juice, and humans get a kick out of winning money.
While all animals don’t enjoy the same rewards, Paul Glimcher has discovered some common features
in the way animal brains learn to recognize and pursue something of value.</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;">Paul Glimcher</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology<br>
Director, Center for Neuroeconomics<br>
New York University
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