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<div class=WordSection1><pre><b><u><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>TODAY<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></pre><pre><b><u><span
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please join us for a special talk, by STS Professor Emeritus Loren Graham:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Russia's Dilemma: Natural Resource State or High-Tech Player?"<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Monday, Oct. 18, 4 - 5:30 pm <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Room E51-275<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Russia has a very unusual pattern in its effort to modernize<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>technologically. For three hundred years, since the time of Peter the<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Great, it has made repeated attempts to catch up in modern technology, and<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>it has achieved many momentary successes - in railroads, in armaments, in<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>atomic energy, in space flights, in aviation, and in many other fields - but<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>it has fallen back behind again after these achievements. Today it is<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>largely dependent on extractive industries (especially oil and gas) for its<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>economic prosperity, not high technology. At the present time it is making<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>another major effort to catch up - especially in nanotechnology and in the<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>construction of a "Russian Silicon Valley" in Skolkovo. I have made four<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>trips to Russia in the last five months examining these efforts, and in my<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>talk I will describe them and give some opinions about their probability of<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>success or lack of it.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>For a little info on Prof. Graham: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/graham.html">http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/graham.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Paree
K. Pinkney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Administrative
Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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in Science, Technology, and Society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Massachusetts
Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>77
Massachusetts Avenue, E51-185<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>Cambridge,
MA 02139<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>(617)
253-4084 (office)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>(617)
258-8118 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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