[Mitworld] New: Allenby on Earth Systems, Panel on Open Scientific Publishing

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 31 | March 12, 2008
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[EARTH SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT]

If you take as a given that humans now live on a geoengineered planet,
then what is our responsibility for the future? Before discussing how to
deal with Earth systems, Brad Allenby asks that we think carefully about
the complexity of human systems, especially our tendency to generate far
more complexity than we realize.

SPEAKER:
Brad Allenby
Templeton Fellow
Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Engineering
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Law, Arizona State University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/531/>

[QUOTE]
"If you want to be responsible in this world, we must talk across
boundaries and not add to them."
-- Brad Allenby


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

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[OPEN SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING]

Scientists and educational institutions in a digital age must push back
forcefully against the old paradigms for scholarly communications, or
risk imperiling the course of scientific research. These speakers
describe how traditional modes of publication have constricted public
sharing of ideas on which scientific progress is based, and propose
approaches more appropriate for a web-based world.

SPEAKERS:
Hal Abelson
Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT School
of Engineering

John Wilbanks
Vice President, Science Commons

Anna Gold
Associate Dean for Public Services, Robert E. Kennedy Library,
California Polytechnic State University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/534/>

[QUOTE]
"This thinking about knowledge as a product you sell and lock up versus
something you integrate is basically causing a systemic failure."
-- John Wilbanks


EVENT HOST: MIT Libraries <http://libraries.mit.edu/>

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MIT Energy Initiative presents

Alliance for Global Sustainability Conference

How Would Climate Change Influence Society in the 21st Century?

Rajendra K. Pachauri
2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute
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