[bioundgrd] Fwd: New Class: Revolutionary Ventures

[Janice Chang]

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From: "Desiree D. Dudley" <desiree.dawn at gmail.com<mailto:desiree.dawn at gmail.com>>
Subject: New Class: Revolutionary Ventures
Date: September 10, 2015 at 12:43:41 PM EDT


Prof Ed Boyden and Dr. Adam Marblestone asked me if I might forward
this email to you in hopes of it being sent out to the Biology
students list as an announcement today for the first week of classes?

It's a brand new interdisciplinary class and we are still selecting applicants.

I realize you may be very busy this week, so any and all help would be
very much appreciated!

Desiree

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NEW CLASS:  Revolutionary Ventures (9.455, 15.128, 20.454, MAS.883)

Announcing a new class, Revolutionary Ventures, about how to transform
scientific fields and industries, solving major problems of the human
condition, through problem-directed design and strategic deployment of
new organizations.

Instructors: J. Bonsen ~ E. Boyden ~ D. Dudley ~ R. Ellis-Behnke ~ J.
Jacobson ~ A. Marblestone
Units: 2-0-7 Units
Time: Thursdays, 2-4pm
Place: E15-341, MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA

Description

Seminar on envisioning and building ideas and organizations to
accelerate engineering revolutions. Focuses on emerging technology
domains, such as neurotechnology, imaging, cryotechnology,
gerontechnology, and bio-and-nano fabrication. Draws on historical
examples as well as live case studies of existing or emerging
organizations, including labs, institutes, startups, and companies.
Goals range from accelerating basic science to developing
transformative products or therapeutics. Each class is devoted to a
specific area, often with invited speakers, exploring issues from the
deeply technical through the strategic. Individually or in small
groups, students prototype new ventures aimed at inventing and
deploying revolutionary technologies.

Limited Enrollment

Please email reven at media.mit.edu<mailto:reven at media.mit.edu> three paragraphs summarizing: (1)
your trajectory in education and/or career to the present day,
emphasizing any special skills or unique experiences, (2) your
inventive, scientific, and/or entrepreneurial aspirations over the
coming decade, (3) your biggest ambition about how the human condition
could be transformed for the better within our lifetimes.

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--
Ed Boyden, Ph. D.
Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute,
  Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Co-Director, MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering
New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building E15: E15-421, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 (mailing address)
Building 46: 46-2171C, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
email - esb at media.mit.edu<mailto:esb at media.mit.edu>
phone - (617) 324-3085
cell - (650) 468-5625
fax - (617) 253-6285
Google Hangout - eboyden3 at gmail.com<mailto:eboyden3 at gmail.com>
skype - eboyden3
web - http://syntheticneurobiology.org
twitter - http://twitter.com/eboyden3

--
Desiree D. Dudley
Director of Neurotechnology Partnerships
Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT
Room E15-417, 20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02139
http://www.syntheticneurobiology.org
MIT-work email: desireed at mit.edu
all-purpose: desiree.dawn at gmail.com
cell: 510-759-5908
office: 617-452-5699
fax: 617-253-6285

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