[Mitworld] New: Lemelson Panel on Invention, Chomsky and Spelke on Human Rights

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2005 INNOVATION FORUM

Dick Gordon hosts a panel discussion featuring 4 recent winners of the
Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. Inventors Daniel DiLorenzo, Amy Smith, James
McLurkin and David Berry provide insights into the mission behind their
inventions and balancing the academic and commercial implications of
their work.


Moderator:
Dick Gordon:
Host, The Connection, WBUR-FM

Speakers:
Daniel DiLorenzo:
	1999 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
Amy Smith:
	2000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
	2004 MacArthur Fellow
James McLurkin:
	2003 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
David Berry:
	2005 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/256/>

EVENT HOST: Lemelson-MIT Program
<http://web.mit.edu/invent/>


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THE IDEA OF UNIVERSALITY IN LINGUISTICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Noam Chomsky and Elizabeth Spelke take on the complexity of human nature
discussing links between language and morality to human rights.

This is part three of a five part series Science Technology and Human
Rights presented by the Program in Human Rights and Justice
<http://web.mit.edu/phrj/>

Speakers:
Noam Chomsky:
	Institute Professor
Professor of Linguistics
	Elizabeth S. Spelke:
	Professor of Psychology
	Co-Director, Mind, Brain, and Behavior Inter-faculty Initiative,
		Harvard University.

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/257/>


EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning
<http://dusp.mit.edu/>


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IN THE PIPELINE:

authors at MIT
a lecture series sponsored by MIT Libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore



Eric von Hippel
	MIT Professor of Management of Innovation
	Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group
	MIT Sloan School of Management

"DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION"

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