[Mitworld] Champy and ESD Panel on Systems, Glimcher on the Brain and Value

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 2 |  September 16, 2009

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Critical Issues and Grand Challenges
June 15, 2009

James Champy moderates this panel that uses the lens of systems engineering to focus sharply 
on some signature global challenges in finance, healthcare, energy and IT. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/697

Moderator:
James A. Champy '63, SM '65
Chairman of Consulting
Perot Systems Corporation

Life Member, MIT Corporation
Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"From an engineering systems point of view, we want to understand what’s going on in the 
(finance) industry and create a regulatory framework that would allow this industry to function 
even under adverse conditions. We have to deal with the intra-industry web of relationships 
and credit flows and what happens if some of the key nodes disappear, such as the bankruptcy of Lehman."
-John Reed

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Representation of Value in the Primate Brain
May 7, 2009

Pigeons really like millet seed, monkeys crave juice, and humans get a kick out of winning money. 
While all animals don’t enjoy the same rewards, Paul Glimcher has discovered some common features 
in the way animal brains learn to recognize and pursue something of value.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/702

Speaker:
Paul Glimcher
Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology

Director, Center for Neuroeconomics

New York University



Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"One of the principle functions of the basal ganglia is to learn the values of our actions, 
represent them, and pump out the data to produce choice."
-Paul Glimcher

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In The Pipeline:

Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities

Presented By:
B&K Securities MIT India Program

Speaker:
Dr. Montek Singh Ahulwalia
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
Government of India

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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Health Care, Energy, Space, and the Environment<BR><BR>October 22-23, 2009 at MIT						

http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09

Sponsored by the MIT System Design and Management Program, John Deere, and MITRE 

Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems 
thinking to some of the most complex challenges facing today's world. 

<B>Special focus: Health Care</B>

On October 23, MIT experts and industry experts will cover the following topics:  framing health 
care systems challenges; a Lean Enterprise systems approach to transforming health care 
systems; re-engineering U.S. health care with health care information technology (HCIT); clinical 
systems issues in stroke care; a systems-based approach to high-risk operations; and 
aging and health care. 


http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938

http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09

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