[Mitworld] Robert Merton on Economics, Thomas Pettitt on the Gutenberg Parenthesis

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 42 |  June 11, 2010

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Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Merton
April 26, 2010

As an MIT Museum audience peppers him with queries ranging from the barter system to development, 
and the role of intuition in economics, Nobel Prize-winner Robert Merton pushes back against any 
assumptions that he might be a “renaissance man.” He carefully steers listeners to his areas of 
expertise -- financial engineering and innovation, and risk management.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/781

Speaker:
Robert C. Merton Ph.D. '70
John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard Business School, Harvard UniversityNobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 1997


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"We are always going to be vulnerable to financial crisis. "
-Robert Merton

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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies
April 1, 2010

Thomas Pettitt makes the deliberately provocative case for a Gutenberg “Parenthesis” -- a period 
marked by the reign of the printing press and isolated from the largely oral culture that came 
before, and the digitally shaped culture emerging today. 


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/775

Speakers:
James Paradis
Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing, and Program Head, Writing and Humanistic Studies, MIT

Thomas Pettitt
Associate Professor of English, University of Southern Denmark

Peter Donaldson
Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Head of the Literature Faculty, MITDirector, Shakespeare Electronic Archive


Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"The Internet will make us less categorical in the way we perceive the world, make us less panicky, 
less worried about distinctions between human and divine, human and machine, human and animal, 
male and female, living and dead."
-Thomas Pettitt

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In The Pipeline:

Lunch with a Laureate:
 Eric Chivian

Presented By:
MIT Museum
 Cambridge Science Festival

Speaker:
Eric Chivian
Co-founder
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

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