[Mitworld] New: Bennett on Quantum Physics, Coen and Gleitman on Language Learning

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 16 | December 13, 2007
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[THE SECOND LAW AND QUANTUM PHYSICS]

Charles Bennett explores entropy, and how it relates to quantum
information.

SPEAKER:
Charles H. Bennett
IBM Fellow, Yorktown Quantum Information Group, IBM


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/500/>

[QUOTE]
"Two entangled photons can be said to be in a definite state of sameness
even though neither has a polarization of its own....This is an idea
that's hard to explain to many people."
-- Charles H. Bennett


EVENT HOST: Department of Mechanical Engineering <http://meche.mit.edu/>

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[HUMAN SIMULATIONS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING]

This is part one of nine from the full-day symposium, Where Does Syntax
Come From? Have We All Been Wrong? The entire symposium will be
published on MIT World during December 2007, and early 2008.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Coen
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lila Gleitman
Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/499/>

[QUOTE]
"It's probably not very realistic to suppose there's no biological given
in a language learning situation. There's plenty."
-- Lila Gleitman


EVENT HOST: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
<http://lids.mit.edu/>

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