[Mitworld] New: Roberto Rigobon on the Global Economy, Brad Feld on the Next Generation of Software

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 8 | Number 4 | September 23, 2008
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[THE U.S. AND THE WORLD'S RECESSION]

Roberto Rigobon summarizes preliminary research on worldwide inflation
and recession, data that bring some grim tidings about our global
economic state of health.

SPEAKER:
Roberto Rigobon, PhD '97
Professor of Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/595/>

[QUOTE]
"Responsible central bankers should and must be increasing interest
rates in the future. They have to take care of the fact that we're going
to face more than 10% inflation in the next couple of years."
-- Roberto Rigobon


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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[SOFTWARE INNOVATION -- DO YOU THINK THE LAST 20 YEARS WERE EXCITING?
 THE NEXT 20 YEARS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND]

Feld discusses the next generation of software in context of changes in
the last twenty years, and considers software that provides an immersive
experience, the prospect of decoupling mouse and keyboard and the
implications of cloud computing.

SPEAKER:
Brad Feld '87, SM '88
Co-founder and Managing Director at Foundry Group and Mobius Venture
Capital


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/596/>

[QUOTE]
"None of us have any privacy. Just get used to the idea that privacy is
gone."
-- Brad Feld


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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MIT Alumni Association
Technology Day 2008 presents

Max Tegmark
Associate Professor of Physics

Precision Cosmology

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