[Mitworld] Ronald Rivest on Cryptography, MIT150 Panel on Microeconomics and Regulation

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 32 |  March 10, 2011

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The Growth of Cryptography
February 8, 2011

It’s not every day that Euclid appears in public with “Alice and Bob,” but in a lecture spanning a 
few thousand years, Ronald Rivest summons these and other notables in his history of cryptography. 
While citing milestones of code-making and breaking, Rivest also brings his audience up to date on 
the latest systems for securing information and communication networks, which owe much to his 
own research.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/879

Speaker:
Ronald Rivest
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT


Event Host:
The Office of the President of MIT

"Cryptography increases transparency and verifiability. Maybe large prime numbers have a role to 
play in our democracy down the road a bit."
-Ronald Rivest

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Economic Policy Challenges: Microeconomics and Regulation
January 27, 2011

Given its contributions to policy and practice in such key sectors as health care, industrial 
organization and technological innovation, and energy and the environment, microeconomics may not 
be getting the kind of respect, or at least attention, it deserves, these panelists suggest.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/877

Moderator:
Nancy Lin Rose PhD '85
Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, MIT

Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"It’s frankly amazing when you look across energy and environmental policy the extent to which policy 
is still inefficiently pursuing goals that don’t make much sense. The problems really are political, 
not technical, and come from the fact that this stuff tends to be on the second page of 
the business section.
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-Richard Schmalensee

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In The Pipeline:

How to Make a Great Mistake

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

Speaker:
Ellyn McColgan
Director
Primerica, Inc.

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