[Mitworld] New: Collective Intelligence Panel and Earth Systems Revolutions

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 12 | November 15, 2007
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[COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE]

Can human beings, with the help of smart machines, not merely avoid
"collective idiocy" but actually achieve a degree of intelligence
previously unattainable by either humans or machines alone? These three
panelists study the possibilities from different angles.

MODERATOR:
David Thorburn
MIT Professor of Literature
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Director, MIT Communications Forum

PANELISTS:
Thomas W. Malone
Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of
Management

Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human
Dynamics Research, MIT Media Lab

Karim R. Lakhani
Assistant Professor, Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard
Business School


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/494/>

[QUOTE]
"One hope of collective intelligence is that it takes the distributed
and sticky pockets of knowledge that exist in the world and finds ways
to aggregate them for us."
-- Karim R. Lakhani


EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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Electrons, Life and the Evolution of the Oxygen Cycle on Earth

In part one of this 9-part series, Paul Falkowski reveals how our watery
and rocky world underwent a massive transformation to become oxygen-rich
and biologically diverse.

SPEAKER:
Paul G. Falkowski
Board of Governors Professor of Geological and Marine Science in the
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/495/>

[QUOTE]
"In the last 150 years, we have extracted a huge amount of buried
organic matter and consumed it at unprecedented rates...The result is
a change in the temperature of the Earth and atmospheric concentration
of CO2, far from thermal equilibrium."
-- Paul Falkowski


EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science
<http://web.mit.edu/cgcs/www/>

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Research Laboratory for Electonics

Nanotechnology Public Lecture Series presents

Mark A. Reed
Associate Director, Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum
Engineering
Yale University

The Next Frontier: Bioelectronic Interfaces
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