[Mitworld] Sherry Turkle on Technology, David Miliband on Afghanistan, MIT150 Final Panel on Women

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 48 |  June 1, 2011

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A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
April 12, 2011

Please don’t confuse Sherry Turkle with a latter-day Luddite; she knows from email and Twitter, 
and appreciates the benefits of digital technology. What she worries about are people who are 
inseparable from their devices, who can’t enjoy, as she does, “a solitary walk across the dunes.” 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/911

Speakers:
Sherry Turkle
Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology

Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self


David Thorburn
MIT Professor of Literature
MacVicar Faculty FellowDirector, MIT Communications Forum


Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"This constant connection, turning to devices almost instinctively ... There’s a panic of disconnection. It worries me we’re only going to feel isolated, that we won’t learn how to have a solitude that sustains us, and which is important for creativity.
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-Sherry Turkle

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Afghanistan: Mending it Not Just Ending It
April 13, 2011

While the U.S. and coalition allies may have an end date in mind for the war in Afghanistan (2014), 
 they have not yet articulated an end game, which to David Miliband threatens “both the substantive 
 long-term interests we have in Afghanistan, and the final narrative of the Afghan drama that began 
 on 9/11.” In his talk, the former British foreign secretary lays out his ideas 
 for an “end game process.”

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/909

Speaker:
Rt. Honorable David Miliband SM '90
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom

Former Foreign Secretary (2007-2010)


Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"There has been next to no discussion about how a durable secure exit for foreign troops is to be engineered in a way that does justice to the blood and treasure spilled…The result is today our troops and Afghan civilians are at the frontline of a strategy that has an end date, but no clear end game. "
-David Miliband

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Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs IV
March 29, 2011

The wind-up session of this multi-part symposium on women at MIT brings together brains and brine -- two researchers’ pioneering work in neuroscience and ocean microbes.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/912

Speakers:
Sallie (Penny) Chisholm
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biology; 
 Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies
 Director, MIT Earth System Initiative

Nancy Kanwisher '80, PhD '86
Investigator, McGovern Institute

Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience




Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"I look at water now and see information. A liter of sea water has as much information as the human genome. It’s a gene jungle all moving around out there."
-Sallie (Penny) Chisholm

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In The Pipeline:

Design for Fun: What Makes a Game Good, and a Good Game?

Presented By:
The MIT Education Arcade
Sandbox Summit: Game Changers

Speaker:
Drew Davidson
Director, Entertainment Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University

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