[Mitworld] Joseph Sussman on Transportation Systems, Sasa Stanisic reads from How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 39 |  May 26, 2010

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Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
March 9, 2010

Joseph Sussman explains how transportation has entered a new phase-- a period of immense complexity
or CLIOS-- complex, large scale, interconnected, open and sociotechical and how
this acronym is becoming the mantra of transportation engineers.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/772

Speaker:
Joseph M. Sussman PhD '67
JR East Professor Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"We are moving toward a period where new technology and mathematical solutions allow us to better 
recognize and value previously un-priced externalities."
-Joseph Sussman

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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
March 9, 2010

Saša Stanišić reads from his acclaimed book, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone--a tale of a 
boy who experiences the war in Bosnia and finds the secret to survival in language and stories.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/771

Speaker:
Saša  Stanišić
2010 Max Kade Writer in Residence in Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT


Event Host:
MIT Libraries

"On writing from the perspective of a child: “I have to force myself to stay naive. . . It reminds 
me of a child I know who ends every story with ‘and then the horse came and ate it’."
-Saša Stanišić

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In The Pipeline:

Bill Porter in Conversation with Howard Anderson

Presented By:
MIT Sloan School of Management
Dean’s Innovative Leader Series

Speaker:
William A. Porter
Co-Founder & Chairman Emeritus
E-Trade Financial Corporation 

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