[Mitworld] New: Cirincione on Nuclear Weapons, TR Panel on Innovation

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 36 | May 18, 2007
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[BOMB SCARE: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS]

Joseph Cirincione delivers an energetic and at times impassioned primer
on the standoff with Iran on its nuclear program, drawn in part from his
latest book, The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons.

SPEAKER:
Joseph Cirincione
Senior Vice-President for National Security and International Policy,
Center for American Progress


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/445/>

[QUOTE]
"To convince Iran to give up (the nuclear) option, they must be
convinced that that's where history's going, in the region, and
globally, and that means us. We have to give up our nuclear fetish. We
don't need 10 thousand nuclear weapons, we'll cut down to 5 thousand
nuclear weapons -- there's still enough to destroy the planet several
times over just in our arsenal."
-- Joseph Cirincione


EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum at MIT
<http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/>

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[EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: THE INNOVATORS' VIEW]

Innovators are like jazz musicians... or like permanent teenagers. These
and other analogies flowed, as top-flight tech inventors tried to put
their fingers on the precise nature of innovation and how it can best be
coaxed into existence.

MODERATOR:
Padmasree Warrior
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
Motorola Incorporated

PANELISTS:
Yair Goldfinger
Co-Founder and CTO, Dotomi

Phillip A. Sharp
Institute Professor

Jay Walker
Chairman, Walker Digital LLC

Iqbal Quadir
Co-founder and Director, MIT Program for Developmental Entrepreneurship


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/446/>

[QUOTE]
"Innovators are fundamentally, permanently dissatisfied people. They're
unhappy -- not good with the status quo thing. The difference between
not liking it and being an innovator is that innovators decide to do
something about it."
-- Jay Walker


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

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Research Laboratory for Electronics
Nanotechnology Public Lecture Series presents

Bruce Donald
Professor of Computer Science at Duke University
Professor of Biochemistry in the Duke University Medical Center

Building Very Small Mobile Micro-Robots
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