[Mitworld] New: Mitchell on Placing Words, Panel on Hurricane Katrina

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[PLACING WORDS: SYMBOLS, SPACE, AND THE CITY]

In his latest book, Mitchell discusses intelligent buildings, and how
technology changes our ideas about public spaces, classrooms and cities.

SPEAKER:

William J. Mitchell
    Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences
    Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences
    Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (1954) Professorship, MIT Media Lab

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/329/>

[QUOTE]
"When I mention something, a student Googles the topic and introduces
the result of the search in real time into the conversation. The same
physical setting and social setting remains important-- face-to-face, but
injection of digital information into the context in a flexible way
changes the learning dynamic."
--William J. Mitchell

EVENT HOST: authors at mit

<http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/events/>

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[HOW CAN WE PLAN FOR SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE REGIONS?]

As various plans emerge for the recovery of New Orleans, panelists offer
some pointed lessons in flood prevention and reconstruction, from
overseas, from our own history, and from other parts of the U.S. This is
part 3 of 5 in the series "Big Questions After Big Hurricanes".

MODERATOR:

Andrew J. Whittle
    Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

PANELISTS:

Chiang C. Mei
    Donald & Martha Harleman Professor and Acting Head, Department of
    Civil and Environmental Engineering
Michael M. J. Fischer
    Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies,
    Department of Anthropology and Program in Science, Technology and
    Society
Anne Whiston Spirn
    Professor of Landscape Architecture, Departments of Architecture and
    Urban Studies and Planning


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/328/>

[QUOTE]
"There's never more support and energy for rebuilding and doing it right
than immediately following a catastrophe. But if no plan is already in
hand, the desire to do things fast and get the job done can take over
the first impulse to do things right."
--Anne Whiston Spirn

EVENT HOST:  MIT Response to Hurricane Katrina

<http://web.mit.edu/katrina/>

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IN THE PIPELINE:

MIT Sloan School of Management
Convocation 2005

[THE FUTURE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE]

A panel moderated by Stewart C. Myers


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Coming in April from the MIT Industrial Liaison Program,
2006 MIT Information Technology Conference:

[NEXT GENERATION COMPUTING AND WIRELESS NETWORKS]

April 4-5, 2006

The MIT IT Conference will present research from MIT laboratories that
will define future directions in IT and networks--technologies that will
impact industry, commerce and the way we live. Talks and demonstrations
include secure access to information, new intelligent interfaces, wired
and wireless high-performance networks, very large-scale distributed
computing, tools for reliability of large systems, managing IT
resources, deriving value from IT investments, and new applications that
will drive the technologies on the horizon.

Online agenda, brochure and registration

<http://ilp-www.mit.edu/events/IT2006-MITW/>

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