[Mitworld] New: Barnett on Airline Safety, Panel on Angel Investing

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[AIRLINE SAFETY AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE]

Airline security expert Arnold Barnett looks at differing mathematical
models to demonstrate the extremely low risk of commercial airline
travel. He uses a similar approach in considering the Electoral College
and the modern voting issues that give us "fly over states" and how
election outcomes could be affected by varying mathematical models.

[SPEAKER]

**Arnold I. Barnett**
George Eastman Professor of Management Science,
MIT Sloan School of Management

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/279/>

Quote:
"At a mortality risk of 1 in 13 million per flight, a passenger who took
one flight per day would on average travel for 36 thousand years before
dying in a plane crash." -- Arnold I. Barnett


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management
<http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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[ANGEL GROUPS IN ACTION: FUNDING EARLY STAGE INNOVATION]

This panel provides a view into state-of-the-art angel investing, and
explains some of the psychological insights into investor motivation.


[MODERATOR]
**Daniel Roach**
Brown & Brown, LLP

[PANELISTS]
**Jeffrey Sohl**
Director, Center for Venture Research
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences,
Whittemore School of Business and Economics,
University of New Hampshire

**James Geshwiler**
Chairman, Angel Capital Association
Managing Director, CommonAngels

**Edward B. Roberts**
David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology
Chair, MIT Entrepreneurship Center

**Jerry Schaufeld**
Former Director, Slater Fund
Founder and former Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum

PLAY NOW:  <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/280/>

Quote:

"Since the angel has been an entrepreneur, he can look over the hill,
and can say, 'maybe you're burning too much cash'. He can view at a
strategic level, a little bit in advance, while the entrepreneur is
running around like crazy making sure the floor is swept. "
-- Jeffrey Sohl


EVENT HOST: MIT Enterprise Forum
<http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/S>

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IN THE PIPELINE:

The Technology and Culture Forum presents

**Ngo Ving Long**
Professor of History, University of Maine

**Noam Chomsky**
MIT Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics

["VIETNAM REMEMBERED"]


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