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<div align="center"><font face="Chalkboard" size="+1"
color="#FF0000">******Please note new speaker and revised seminar
topic for next week. The original speaker is unavailable due to
a family emergency.*******</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#0000FF"><b>Tuesday,
January 18th</b></font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2"
color="#0000FF"><b><x-tab>
</x-tab>Municipal Electric Utilities' Role in</b></font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><b>Telecommunications Services</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+2"><i>Sharon Gillett</i></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2"><i>Principal Research
Associate</i></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2"><i>Center for Technology, Policy,
and Industrial Development</i></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2"><i><br></i></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#0000FF">Noon - 1:30
pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+2"
color="#0000FF">E40-298</font></div>
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<div>In the late 1990s, just as many governments around the world
finished privatizing their national telecommunications networks, a few
hundred US communities began experimenting with local government
provision of communications services. This seminar will examine
the drivers and scale of this trend in the US and elsewhere, the key
role of municipal electric utilities, the potential for wireless
technologies (especially unlicensed wireless), and the results of
municipal experimentation with so-called "open access"
broadband networks. Come hear the status of federal, state and
local policies regarding municipal and open access networking, and
contribute to the debate over the stakes involved. The speaker
will be Sharon Gillett, who leads the broadband working group for the
Communications Futures Program.</div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1"><i>Bring brown bag lunch; light
refreshments provided.</i></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#0000FF"><b>IAP 2005</b></font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#0000FF"><b>Issues in Technology and Policy Seminar
Series</b></font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#0000FF">Sponsored by the Technology and Policy
Program</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#0000FF">Tuesdays, Noon - 1:30 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times" size="+2"
color="#0000FF">E40-298</font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><br></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#0000FF">Upcoming
seminars:</font></div>
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<div><b>Jan. 25:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Relying on Nuclear Energy Without Spreading the Bomb -- Or
Offering</b></div>
<div><b><x-tab>
</x-tab>Terrorist Targets<x-tab>
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<div><i><x-tab>
</x-tab>Matthew Bunn, Senior Research Associate, Harvard University
Belfer Center for Science</i></div>
<div><i><x-tab> </x-tab>and
International Affairs</i></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">This seminar addresses the linkage between
civilian nuclear energy technologies and the spread of nuclear
weapons, and offers a number of metrics for judging technical and
institutional proposals to break this linkage. The talk will
also briefly address the danger of terrorist theft of nuclear
materials and sabotage of nuclear facilities, and how it might be
addressed. Matthew Bunn, a recognized expert on security issues
related to nuclear stockpiles and currently Senior Research Associate
in the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs in Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School
of Government, is also pursuing the TMP Doctoral degree here at
MIT.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times" size="+1"><i>Bring brown bag
lunch; light refreshments provided.</i></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times" size="+1"><i>For further
information contact Renee Robins, rrobins@mit.edu</i></font></div>
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Renee J. Robins<br>
Director of Special Projects, MIT Technology and Policy Program<br>
Associate Program Director for M.Phil. Programs, Cambridge-MIT
Institute<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E40-381<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
(617) 253-7662 (tel)<br>
(617) 452-2599 (fax)<br>
rrobins@mit.edu (email)<br>
http://tppserver.mit.edu (TPP web)<br>
http://www.cambridge-mit.org (CMI web)<br>
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