[Mitworld] New: Soap Box on Energy, Bezos on Amazon

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 20 | January 31, 2007
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[GROWING PAINS - TRANSITIONING TO A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ECONOMY]

In this final program from Soap Box series on energy, Heywood makes a
strong case for energy conservation, while Ansolabehere sees barriers
to change in a world that still sees energy and abundant and cheap.

SPEAKERS:
John B. Heywood
Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Sloan Automotive Laboratory Co-Director, Lab for 21st Century
Energy

Stephen Ansolabehere
Elting R. Morison Professor of Political Science


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/416/>

[QUOTE]
"We conserve wealth. Most of us don't spend all our money before we
die. We want to hand it on to our children. Why don't we think that way
about the environment -- think of handing on a decent environment?"
-- John Heywood


EVENT HOST: Soapbox
<http://edcoord.mit.edu/soapbox/>

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[OPENING KEYNOTE AND KEYNOTE INTERVIEW WITH JEFF BEZOS]

Bezos returns to MIT with an array of new web scale computing services,
including Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service and Elastic Compute
Cloud.

SPEAKER:
Jeffrey Bezos
Founder and CEO of Amazon.com


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/417/>

[QUOTE]
"Here's a dirty secret: Up to 70% of the time, energy and dollars for
web scale applications goes into undifferentiated, heavy lifting,
infrastructure. I call this heavy lifting muck. The thing about muck,
you have to do it at the highest quality level."
-- Jeff Bezos


EVENT HOST: Technology Review
<http://www.technologyreview.com/>

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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Creativity: The Mind, Machines, and Mathematics presents

B. Jack Copeland
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Turing Archive for the
History of Computing, University of Canterbury

Alan Turing: Codebreaker and AI Pioneer
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