[Mitworld] New: Amy Smith on Genius for Change, Foundations of the Second Law

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[A GENIUS FOR CHANGE, AND THE PASSION TO DO IT]

SPEAKER:
Amy Smith
Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2004 MacArthur Fellow
Founder, MIT IDEAS Competition, Edgerton Center

PANELISTS:
Jules Walter
Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,'08

Kendra Johnson
Undergraduate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, '08

Amos Winter
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, '05 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, '09


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/521/>

[QUOTE]
"In this country, we tend to think of labor as expensive and equipment
as cheap. In developing countries, it's the opposite. We don't want to
abuse that but the truth of the matter is, people have the time and
labor but no income. Allowing them to use labor to create income opens
up options."
-- Amy Smith


EVENT HOST: MIT Museum <http://web.mit.edu/museum/>

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[FOUNDATIONS OF THE SECOND LAW]

MODERATOR:
Robert J. Silbey
Class of 1942 Professor of Chemistry


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/520/>

[QUOTE]
"This is a pathetic situation for both laws of thermodynamics. We're
really declaring them to be true, and when see them not to be true, or
instantiated in nature, we simply revise our opinions and re-describe
what happens so it is true. I want to avoid doing this."
-- Seth Lloyd


EVENT HOST: Department of Mechanical Engineering <http://meche.mit.edu/>

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