[Mitworld] New: Robert Langer on Cancer, Jon Miller on Technology and Entertainment

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 34 | May 4, 2007
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[ENGINEERING NEW APPROACHES TO CANCER DETECTION AND THERAPY]

This talk, which concludes the 11-part series on cancer research, deals
with Langer's efforts to design materials for safer and more effective
cancer treatment.

SPEAKER:
Robert S. Langer, Jr.
Institute Professor and Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical
and Biomedical Engineering


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/402/>

[QUOTE]
"When you're at a place like MIT, you often do speculative work, and
when you do speculative work, you're not always greeted that well in the
scientific community."
-- Robert Langer


EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science <http://web.mit.edu/science/>

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[EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TRENDS IN ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT AND BUSINESS]

Miller discusses the explosion in media content: more choices, more
venues, more technology platforms, but still only 24 hours in the day.

SPEAKERS:
Jonathan F. Miller
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AOL LLC
Board Member, Next New Networks

David Faber
Anchor, CNBC's Faber Report and contributor to Squawk on the Street


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/443/>

[QUOTE]
"Consumers are part of a creative and distributive process now, part of
a value chain in a new way. Content becomes the catalyst for new
behavior."
-- Jonathan Miller


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

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Research Laboratory for Electronics
RLE 60th Anniversary Colloquia Series-Beyond the Limits presents

Sir John Pendry
Imperial College

The Perfect Lens: Resolution Beyond the Limits of Wavelength
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