[Mitworld] New: Benner on the Edge of the Internet, Resnick and Panel on Youth and Civic Engagement

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 56 | August 13, 2008
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[A ROADMAP FOR THE EDGE OF THE INTERNET]

SPEAKER:
Alan Benner
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Systems and Technology Group


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/582/>

[QUOTE]
"The amount of energy going to information technology on the planet is
growing like crazy....We need 10 more big power plants every few years
to handle these data centers."
-- Alan Benner


EVENT HOST: Principles of Engineering Practice (3.003)
<http://scripts.mit.edu/~3.003/EngPrac/>

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[YOUTH AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT]

MODERATOR:
Mitchel Resnick SM '88, PhD '92
LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab
Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

PANELISTS:
Lance Bennett
Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication and Professor of
Political Science, University of Washington

Ingeborg Endter SM '00
Outreach Manager, MIT Center for Future Civic Media

Alan Khazei
Founder and CEO, Be the Change, Inc.
Co-Founder and Former CEO, City Year


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/584/>

[QUOTE]
"You can't learn citizenship by reading about it in a book. We need to
support young people who want to do civic advocacy."
-- Alan Khazei


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

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MIT Sloan School of Management
Back to the Classroom 2008 presents

Drazen Prelec
Professor of Management Science
MIT Sloan School of Management

Neuroeconomics

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