[Mitworld] Sandy Pentland on Cars and Drivers, CRE Panel on Energy Efficient Buildings

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 15 |  November 17, 2010

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Engineering Smarter Drivers
October 5, 2010

While automakers market increasingly intelligent cars, they may be missing the point. No matter how 
sophisticated the vehicle’s brain, suggests Alex (Sandy) Pentland, the smartest element on the road 
is still the human driver.  In search of safe, responsive vehicles, designers should not think of 
separate components -- machine and operator -- but rather, an integrated system comprised of two, 
complementary intelligences. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/836

Speaker:
Alex (Sandy) Pentland PhD '82
Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, MIT Media LabCo-founder and Faculty Director, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"The car ought to be trying to perceive the person’s intent actively, so it can prepare for what the 
person will do. And the person should be an integral part of the control process."
-Alex (Sandy) Pentland

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Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
October 1, 2010

The built environment consumes a very large share of the nation’s energy, and so offers rich 
opportunities for reducing our overall carbon footprint. MIT researchers share innovations that 
could soon radically alter the energy profile, as well as form and function, of buildings. Their work 
may prove invaluable to those in the real estate or construction industries seeking not just 
efficiency, but a good investment.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/837

Moderator:
Tony Ciochetti
Thomas G. Eastman Chair and Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate

Event Host:
MIT Center for Real Estate

"Here’s how we pay for energy in buildings: It’s as if you went to a grocery store with a shopping 
cart, filled it with everything you wanted, no prices on anything, and at the end of the month, 
they direct debited it from your bank account. You didn’t know caviar was expensive because there 
was no price on it."
-John Ochsendorf

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In The Pipeline:

The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear Energy in Meeting It

Presented By:
Nuclear Science and Engineering
David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology

Speaker:
John P. Holdren
Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President

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