[Mitworld] New: NASA Administrator Griffin and Panel on TV's New Economics

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 5 | Number 32 | May 10, 2006
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[DEVELOPING THE HARDWARE FOR FUTURE HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION]

Griffin outlines NASA's vision to resume human space exploration, and
provides insight into the challenges facing the agency as it prepares to

return to the moon by 2020.

SPEAKER:
Michael Griffin
NASA Administrator



PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/352/>

[QUOTE]
"We spend seven tenths of one percent of our national budget on space
exploration; fifteen cents for the average person every day. I spend
more than that on chewing gum."

--Michael Griffin

EVENT HOST: Mass Space Grant Consortium

<http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/masgc/phaseI.html>

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[TVíS NEW ECONOMICS]

Poltrack provides insight into how CBS is positioning itself in the new
era of web based, nonlinear television. Schement relays fascinating
demographic and historical information about the in-home use of radios,
televisions, computers, as our connected homes become "nodes on a
network".

MODERATOR:
Henry Jenkins
John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities and Director of Comparative
Media Studies Program

PANELISTS:
David F. Poltrack
Executive Vice President, Research and Planning, CBS Television

Jorge Reina Schement
Distinguished Professor of Communications
Professor of Information Sciences and Technologies and Co-Director of
the Institute for Information Policy, College of Communications, The
Pennsylvania State University

PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/345/>

[QUOTE]
"We focus on technology so much that we miss driving forces that are non

technological. TV arrived just at the right time, when Americans were
forming households, and had little disposable income."

--Jorge Schement

EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum

<http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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