[Mitworld] Don Sadoway on 3.091 and Energy Storage, Shneiderman on Visualizing Data

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 50 |  July 21, 2010

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Innovation in Energy Storage: What I Learned in 3.091 was All I Needed to Know
June 5, 2010

In a lecture that could have been titled, "Better Education through Chemistry", Don Sadoway begins 
with solar energy, grid-level storage, and liquid metal batteries and moves into education 
innovation, sharing creative ways to teach chemistry, through music, art and poetry.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/800

Speaker:
Donald R. Sadoway
John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry
 Department of Materials Science EngineeringMargaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow


Event Host:
Alumni Association

"How do we think against the grain? Pose the right question."
-Don Sadoway

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Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage:  Interactive Exploration for Scholars in the Humanities, Arts, and Beyond
May 20, 2010

A focus on designing technologies that allow the "visualization of things not visible" has been at 
the center of Ben Shneiderman’s work over the past two decades. He advocates the discovery of 
temporal patterns, relationships and clusters via an empowering user experience which enables 
discovery at a customizable pace and depth.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/802

Speaker:
Ben Shneiderman
Professor, Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland


Event Host:
HyperStudio

"We're after things like trends, clusters, gaps and outliers and (the) tools we work with are the 
design variables - the retinal variables - of color, size, shape and proximity. … The game is really 
wide open as to how to do that correctly."
-Ben Shneiderman

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In The Pipeline:

Network-Driven Transportation

Presented By:
Transportation at MIT

Speaker:
Li-Shiuan Peh
 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT

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