[Mitworld] John Seely Brown on Blended Learning, David Simchi-Levi on Volatility of Supply Chains

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 34 |  April 20, 2010

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Blended Learning Revisited
March 10, 2010

John Seely Brown, former chief scientist at Xerox, has morphed in recent years into 
the “Chief of Confusion,” seeking “the right questions” in a range of fields, including education. He is joined by Dava Newman and John Belcher for a discussion on education in the 21st century.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/765

Speakers:
John Seely Brown
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern CaliforniaFormer Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation and Former Director, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Dava Newman SM '89, PhD '92
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering SystemsDirector of Technology and Policy Program and MacVicar Faculty Fellow

John Belcher
Class of '22 Professor of Physics

MacVicar Faculty Fellow


Event Host:
MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory

"Playing at its deepest sense -- making, testing, trying, riddling the system -- that’s the thing....
If that isn’t an interesting description of deep research, I don’t know what is."
-John Seely Brown

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Creating Value in a Volatile World
February 23, 2010

The need for flexible management of supply chains to increase operational efficiencies could not 
be greater, as modern companies outsource and manufacture overseas.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/761

Speaker:
David Simchi-Levi
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems
Co-Director, Leaders For Global Operations and System Design and Management Programs


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"Optimization technology (the combined effect of algorithms and machines) means that some things 
in 1988 that took two months to solve, in 2004 they took less than 1 second. Between 2004 and 
2008, algorithms improved by a factor of 100.
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-David Simchi-Levi

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In The Pipeline:

Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach

Presented By:
Transportation at MIT

Speaker:
Joseph Sussman
J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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