[Mitworld] New: Pinker's Farewell and EECS-Transforming Health Care

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The MIT Communications Forum presents


Steven Pinker

"Pinker's Farewell"

Steven Pinker reflects on his 21 years at MIT as he leaves for 
Harvard in a discussion led by Emeritus Professor Samuel Jay Keyser. 
This very personal event is filled with insight, appreciation, 
inspiration and reflection, oh, and a few verbs too.

  Go directly to the video page:  http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/160/

This is the third lecture on MIT World featuring Steven Pinker.  See 
the "Authors at MIT " presentation of Pinker's latest book, "The Blank 
Slate" at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/23


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The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science presents

EECS Centennial Celebration

"Transforming Health Care"

Moderator
Barbara Liskov

Panelists: Dennis Freeman, Martha Gray, Peter Szolovits and Eric Grimson

Hear how research in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is 
transforming care, in areas such as hearing loss, arthritis and brain 
surgery.

Go directly to the video page:  http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/159/

The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Centennial 
Celebration was held in May 2003.
This is the third of four talks on MIT World from this event.  See 
the others at http://mitworld.mit.edu/series/43/. The final one will 
be on MIT World soon.




In the Pipeline

The Alumni Association's Family Weekend
Keynote Speaker
Professor Pauline Maier
"Teaching History at MIT"

Engineering Systems Division presents
2003 Brunel Lecture
Sheila Widnall
"The Columbia Tragedy: System-Level Issues for Engineering"

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