[Mitworld] Anatoly Chubais on Rusnano, Johanna Drucker at HyperStudio Conference

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 47 |  July 7, 2010

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Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia
April 9, 2010

In both lecture format and conversation with Sloan Senior Lecturer Noubar Afeyan, Rusnano CEO 
Anatoly Chubais presents an ambitious plan to create Russia’s Nanotechnology Center—a $10 billion, 
entrepreneurial ecosystem that incorporates education, research and business incubation.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/787

Speakers:
Anatoly Chubais
Chairman and CEO, Rusnano

Noubar Afeyan PhD '87
Managing Partner and CEO, Flagship Ventures
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management


Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"We should do either the best technologies in the world, or (do) nothing."
-Anatoly Chubais

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Humanistic Approaches to the Graphical Expression of Interpretation
May 20, 2010

Declaring that visualization techniques originally developed for empirical sciences and quantitative 
analytics lack the sophistication needed by humanists, Johanna Drucker emphasizes that humanists 
must remember their core orientation and approach interpretation not strictly as visualization.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/796

Speaker:
Johanna Drucker
Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliography
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA


Event Host:
HyperStudio

"We tend to look at static media as if they were fixed, final and self-evident things. They are not. 
They are not self-evident. They are provocations for performance. "
-Johanna Drucker

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In The Pipeline:

Alzheimer’s Disease: Realizing the Promise of Molecular Medicine

Presented By:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
 Cells, Circuits, and Behavior

Speaker:
Steven Paul
Former President
Lilly Research Laboratories

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