[Mitworld] New: MIT Leadership Center, Panel on Digital Commons

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MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 5 | number 10 | November 16, 2005
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[LEADERSHIP IN A COMPLEX, TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN WORLD]

In celebrating the launch of the MIT Leadership Center, prominent
leaders in their fields come together to discuss the finer points of
leadership, including having and believing in a vision, taking the long
view, and never giving up.

SPEAKERS:
Rosalind Williams
	The Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing

Robert S. Langer
	Institute Professor and
	Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical
	Engineering

Robert Metcalfe
	General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

Phillip A. Sharp
	Institute Professor
	Founding Director McGovern Institute for Brain Research


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/304/>

[QUOTE]
"I like to set a goal: I'd like to see this technology do that, or
answer this scientific question. So I set a goal in a five to 10-year
period, and work to achieve it."
--Phillip A. Sharp

EVENT HOST:  MIT Leadership Center

<http://sloanleadership.mit.edu/>

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[THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL COMMONS]

Panelists discuss how the internet has fundamentally changed access to
information and why the old regimes of property management need to
change.

SPEAKERS:

Nancy Kranich
	Former President,
	American Library Association
	Guest Lecturer

Ann Wolpert
	Director, MIT Libraries

Steven Pinker
	Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology
	Harvard University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/303/>

[QUOTE]
"The important work of the academy is intended to be shared, not stuffed
in the same box as Mickey Mouse."
--Ann Wolpert

EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum
<http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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IN THE PIPELINE:

Center for International Studies presents:

Laurie Garrett
	Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations

Dr. Marc Lipsitch
	Harvard School of Public Health


[SCIENTIFIC, HEALTH AND POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF AN AVIAN FLU PANDEMIC]

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November 5-10, 2006

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