[Mitworld] Susan Hockfield at Tech Day, Martin Wattenberg on Visualization

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 52 |  August 4, 2010

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Annual Technology Day Report 2010
June 5, 2010

MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT Alumni at the annual 
Technology Day event.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/799

Speaker:
Dr. Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Professor of Neuroscience


Event Host:
Alumni Association

"The research in the Koch Institute (for Integrated Cancer Research) has shifted far more toward 
directed research…it’s an interesting switch as it also brings the biologists much closer to the 
engineers and makes it easier for them to have the kinds of conversations that will create 
breakthrough technologies."
-Susan Hockfield

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Numbers, Words and Colors
May 21, 2010

Tools developed by Martin Wattenberg and his associate Fernanda Viégas, have changed the way people 
look at and use visualizations, by empowering and equipping users with the methodology needed to ask 
different questions. Wattenberg, whose background is in math and computer science, asks how the 
humanities have influenced the evolution of data visualization and then answers with several 
examples from his own work. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/804

Speaker:
Martin Wattenberg
Co-Founder, Flowing Media


Event Host:
HyperStudio

"The truth is that text is not just a bag of words… small words are indicators of style, of how we're 
framing issues – they're very  important. This was a complete revelation to me as a computer 
scientist. Realizing that these simple, small words hold so much meaning was fascinating…
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-Martin Wattenberg

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In The Pipeline:

Looking at 20th Century Art through the Eyes of a Physicist

Presented By:
Department of Physics/Independent Activities Period

Speaker:
Walter Lewin
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
MIT Department of Physics

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