[Mitworld] The Climategate Debate, Google's Davidson on Public Policy and Technology

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 18 |  December 22, 2009

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The Great Climategate Debate
December 10, 2009

The hacking of emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in November 
rocked the world of climate change science, energized global warming skeptics, and threatened 
to derail policy negotiations at Copenhagen.  These panelists, who differ on the scientific 
implications of the released emails, generally agree that the episode will have long-term 
consequences for the larger scientific community.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/730

Moderator:
Henry D. Jacoby
Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
 Co-Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT

Event Host:
MIT School of Science

"My view of the risk is that we have no other planet to retreat to if we are wrong."
-Ronald Prinn

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Liberty by Design
November 9, 2009

Alan Davidson discusses the impact of public policy on the way technology is evolving in the 
Internet space. Instead of viewing it as a lawyer for a public policy interest group — his previous role — 
he now approaches it from his new perspective as a public policy advisor to Google's engineering 
design group, counseling them on how to build products and run a business. He encourages his 
fellow engineers "to think broadly […] about their role in the world […], to be more 
than bench-tied engineers and more involved in the deep social debates of the time.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/732

Speaker:
Alan Davidson '89, SM '93
Washington Policy Counsel and head of Google's government affairs office


Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"It's actually a very different perspective to be lucky enough to be in a very innovative 
company — a very disruptive company — and to spend some time thinking about what does it 
mean to build products, to build technologies, to deploy systems in a way that is aware 
of these public policy debates that are going on."
-Alan Davidson

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In The Pipeline:

Humans in Space

Presented By:
MIT Museum 
Soap Box Series

Speaker:
Dava Newman
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
 Director, Technology and Policy Program 

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