[Mitworld] New: Horvitz delivers Killian Lecture, Bruce Donald on Microrobots

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 45 | July 25, 2007
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[WORMS, LIFE AND DEATH: CELL SUICIDE IN DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE]

SPEAKER:
H. Robert Horvitz
David H. Koch Professor of Cancer Biology at MIT


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/464/>

[QUOTE]
"Programmed cell death involves four major steps: Identify the victim,
kill, get rid of the corpse, destroy the evidence."
--H. Robert Horvitz


EVENT HOST: The Office of the President of MIT
<http://web.mit.edu/hockfield/>

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[BUILDING VERY SMALL MOBILE MICRO-ROBOTS]

SPEAKER:
Bruce R. Donald
William and Sue Gross Professor of Computer Science and Professor of
Biochemistry, Duke University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/463/>

[QUOTE]
"I don't know where it's written down that you have to carry your power
supply with you all the time."
--Bruce Donald


EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT
<http://rleweb.mit.edu/>

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