[Mitworld] Hari Balakrishnan on Improving your Commute, Panel on Culture Beat and New Media

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 27 |  March 8, 2010

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Improving Your Commute
October 6, 2009

Road traffic is a challenging societal problem, and with the increasing crowding of areas in and 
around cities, it is only becoming worse. With the proliferation of wireless connectivity, 
smartphones (think cheap embedded computers), it is now possible to continuously monitor urban 
areas using mobile sensors carried by people while they drive.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/746

Speaker:
Hari Balakrishnan
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Lead, Networks and Mobile Systems, CSAIL


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"I think what’s happened over the past few years is [that] dramatic changes in computing and 
networking can enable these applications at extremely massive scale and at quite sustainable cost."
-Hari Balakrishnan

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The Culture Beat and New Media  
November 12, 2009

Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts 
criticism, but it migrates to the web, it just may survive and even thrive. 
Panelists discuss the field’s colorful history, current decline, and possibly vibrant future.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/749

Moderator:
David Thorburn
MIT Professor of Literature
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Director, MIT Communications Forum
Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"We’re coming upon a golden age of arts journalism, partly because a lot of ways in which we have 
discussed culture in this country have been stunted. We haven’t had much public discourse on 
culture in 30 to 40 years. ... People are diving in and wanting to talk about culture now."
-Douglas McLennan

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In The Pipeline:

Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need

Presented By:
Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain at MIT

Speaker:
Thomas R. Insel
Director
National Institute of Mental Health

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