[Mitworld] Robert Solow, Peter Diamond, Robert Hall, Esther Duflo on Macroeconomics, Seth Teller on Robots

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 30 |  February 23, 2011

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The Evolution of Economic Science: Macroeconomics, Growth, and Development
January 27, 2011

This panel first looks inward, at the evolution of macroeconomics in the past century, and the 
emergence of microeconomic foundations in macroeconomics, then shifts outward, to the application 
of economic analysis to such issues as structural unemployment, the ongoing U.S. recession, and the 
best ways to help developing nations.
 Panelists: Robert M. Solow, Peter Diamond, Robert Hall, Esther Duflo

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/874

Moderator:
Daron Acemoglu
James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT

Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"A government that spends money...supporting higher education, supporting technological innovation,
supporting R&D generally, certainly has more than a prayer, a likelihood, of affecting the 
steady state rate of growth."
-Robert Solow

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Perceptive Mobile Robots Working Safely Alongside Humans
December 7, 2010

Although we are still far from the moment of singularity, or even Star Wars ‘droids, we can anticipate 
robot colleagues in the near future, believes Seth Teller. He is developing ‘situationally aware’ machines 
to help out humans in those “unstructured environments…where we live, work and recreate.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/871

Speaker:
Seth Teller
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"We’re working with ways of creating natural interactions between humans and robots, paying attention 
to notions of human acceptance or cultural tolerability."
-Seth Teller

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In The Pipeline:

The Fruits of Diversity

Presented By:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom
Human Diversity and Social Order

Moderator:
Adele Naude Santos
Dean
MIT School of Architecture and Planning

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