[Mitworld] Hamsa Balakrishnan on Airport Operations, Steven Pinker, Alison Byerly and David Thorburn on the Humanities

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 22 |  January 3, 2011

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Toward Efficient Airport Operations
October 26, 2010

Few of us would elect to spend countless hours at the airport watching planes arrive, depart and sit 
at gates. But what constitutes a punishment for some actually energizes Hamsa Balakrishnan, whose 
research focuses on improving airport operations. Her goal is to make air travel more efficient, robust 
and green.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/850

Speaker:
Hamsa Balakrishnan
T.Wilson Career Development Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Engineering Systems Division, MIT


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"Our goal is to develop practical algorithms for the air transportation system, to increase efficiency 
and robustness and ... ensure safety while coping with uncertainty, competing interests and 
environmental impacts."
-Hamsa Balakrishnan

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Humanities in the Digital Age
October 20, 2010

Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be 
reason to fear its loss of relevance. Steven Pinker and Alison Byerly, whose work touches a variety of disciplines and with wide knowledge of the worlds of academia and publishing ponder the meaning and mission of 
the humanities in the digital age.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/852

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

"It’s obvious to me video games are going to be a major aesthetic form. They belong to a special class 
of objects now emerging because digital technologies open up new forms of creativity that we’re just 
beginning to discover."
-David Thorburn

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In The Pipeline:

Probing the Plume

Presented By:
MIT Museum
Soap Box Series

Speaker:
Richard Camilli
Associate Scientist
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

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