[Mitworld] New: NSF's Atkiins on Cyberinfrastructure, MIT Libraries Panel on Copyright

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 30 | April 10, 2007
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[THE NSF CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE: VISION AND IMPLEMENTATION
 TOWARDS LEARNING AND DISCOVERY WITHOUT BARRIERS]

In 2006 the National Science Foundation created the Office of
Cyberinfrastructure to make competitive, merit-reviewed awards for
leading-edge, IT-based infrastructure that is essential to science and
engineering, and named Daniel Atkins director of this new office. In
his talk, Atkins outlines his ambitious goals for this new post.

SPEAKER:
Daniel Atkins
Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School
of Information, the University of Michigan


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/434/>

[QUOTE]
"Cyberinfrastrcture offers the opportunity for new global-scale
collaborations across disciplines and geography.... Realizing its
potential will however also require a new wave of commitment to
collaborate between the complex array of stake holders necessary to
create, deploy, sustain and apply cyberinfrastructure in transformative
ways."
-- Daniel Atkins


EVENT HOST: iCampus <http://icampus.mit.edu/index.shtml>

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[MANAGING COPYRIGHT TO ADVANCE RESEARCH AND TEACHING]

The MIT Libraries' IAP panel on authors' rights and access to research
examines how MIT authors can take actions that will increase the impact
of their own work, and serve the advancement of science and technology
by maximizing the full potential of research to be shared and reused.

MODERATOR:
Ann Wolpert
Director, MIT Libraries

PANELISTS:
Claude R. Canizares
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics, in the Department of Physics and the
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Vice President
for Research and Associate Provost

Thinh Nguyen
Counsel, Science Commons

Ann Hammersla
Senior Counsel for Intellectual Property, MIT

Ellen Finnie Duranceau
Scholarly Publishing Consultant

Brian Evans
Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/436/>

[QUOTE]
"We're finding increasing consolidation in the publishing industry, in
the hands of publishers who are less and less flexible....many of the
publishers are part of large international conglomerates. They could be
selling widgets or beans as well as journals."
-- Ann Wolpert


EVENT HOST: MIT Libraries <http://libraries.mit.edu/>

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MIT Engineering Systems DIvision
Annual Charles L. Miller Lecture presents

Yossi Sheffi
Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Envrironmental
Engineering
Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

Geeks and Chiefs:
Engineering Education @ MIT
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