After the Unrest: Ten Years of Rebuilding Los Angeles ...
After the Unrest: Ten Years of Rebuilding Los Angeles Following the Trauma ...
4/22/2002, 5:30, 10-485 William Fulton In addition to dealing with natural disasters, Los Angeles has repeatedly had to deal with social and civic unrest over the past 40 years-most recently in 1992, when widespread unrest rattled a region already afflicted with ...
An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out
An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out
12/01/2010 4:45 PM 10"250Kent Kresa, '59, '61 MS, '66 EAA, Chairman Emeritus, Northrop Grumman CorporationDescription: Returning to his freshman physics classroom after half a century, Kent Kresa still feels passionate about MIT: "It's a place I love; I feel good when I come back, and it's ...
An Evening with Video Artist Bill Viola
An Evening with Video Artist Bill Viola
03/10/2009 6:30 PM 10"250Bill ViolaDescription: Bill Violadims the lights in MIT's Room 10"250, and begins to talk of life, death and all that lies between, leaving the realm of classroom and entering a place of potential enlightenment. Weaving together his video art, personal anecdotes, ...
Beyond Religion: Ethics, Values, & Wellbeing, Part 1 of 3, ...
Beyond Religion: Ethics, Values, & Wellbeing, Part 1 of 3, with the Dalai ...
How can we move beyond narrow religious perspectives and polarized issues to a more embracing view of human responsibilities and values? His Holiness will give a talk, with Brother David Steindl-Rast and Father Thomas Keating joining in dialogue: an historic meeting ...
Beyond Religion: Ethics, Values, & Wellbeing, Part 2 of 3, ...
Beyond Religion: Ethics, Values, & Wellbeing, Part 2 of 3, with the Dalai ...
How can we move beyond narrow religious perspectives and polarized issues to a more embracing view of human responsibilities and values? This is a talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, followed by discussion with Brother David Steindl-Rast and Father Thomas Keating: an ...
Beyond Religion: Ethics, Values, & Wellbeing, Part 3 of 3, ...
Beyond Religion: Ethics, Values, & Wellbeing, Part 3 of 3, with the Dalai ...
How can we move beyond narrow religious perspectives and polarized issues to a more embracing view of human responsibilities and values? This is a talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, followed by discussion with Brother David Steindl-Rast and Father Thomas Keating: an ...
Beyond the Headlines: Making Sense of the Stem Cell Debate
Beyond the Headlines: Making Sense of the Stem Cell Debate
11/20/2001 6"120Dr. Claudia Mickelson, Chair, Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee; National Institutes of Health and Biosafety Officer, MIT; Dr. George Daley, PhD '89, MIT/Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Mass General Hospital ; Dr. Thomas Shannon, ...
Building a Community on Trust David Baltimore
Building a Community on Trust David Baltimore
02/19/2002, Kresge Dr. David Baltimore In this lecture, Dr. Baltimore discuses the central importance of trust, in science, education, commerce and personal life. According to Dr. Baltimore, "trust is a moral stance without which a community cannot exist because, as ...
Climate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of ...
Climate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of Humanity and the ...
04/22/2009 7:00 PM Simmons HallSteven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense FundDescription: The "dominant story of the next century" will be one of either gloom or redemption, says Steven Hamburg, depending on how humanity chooses to address climate change. ...
Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
11/17/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJeffrey Hollender, Co"founder & Executive Chair; Seventh Generation Description: The "chief inspired protagonist" of one of the nation's oldest and most successful green manufacturers apologizes for delivering a talk "more depressing ...
Creativity: The Mind, Machines, and Mathematics: Public ...
Creativity: The Mind, Machines, and Mathematics: Public Debate
11/30/2006 4:30 PM 32"123Rodney A. Brooks, Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Heartland Robotics; ; Ray Kurzweil, '70, Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, IncDescription: Two of the sharpest minds in the computing arena spar gamely, but neither scores ...
Democracy after Citizens United
Democracy after Citizens United
09/30/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumLawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics; Allison R. Hayward, Vice President of Policy, Center for Competitive Politics; John Bonifaz, Founder, National Voting Rights Institute; ...
DJ Culture: Sampling and Ethics
DJ Culture: Sampling and Ethics
DJs define "sampling", and then share their thoughts about the effects of copyright law in the world of electronic music. Featuring DJ C, DJ Flack, DJ M. Singe, and DJ Spooky.
Do"It"Yourself Biology
Do"It"Yourself Biology
01/14/2009 6:00 PM MuseumNatalie Kuldell, Instructor, MIT Department; Reshma Shetty, Ph D 08Description: Inspired by the vast potential of bioengineering, ordinary people are seeking their inner Frankenstein -- doctor, not monster. Two speakers who know their way around Petri dish and beaker ...
Don Davis' Leadership Mantras: A Tribute by LGO
Don Davis' Leadership Mantras: A Tribute by LGO
Don Davis, the former CEO of Stanley Works, was for 21 years a lecturer on leadership to students in the Leaders for Manufacturing/Leaders for Global Operations program, a dual-degree MBA and SM in Engineering program at MIT. Don Davis' "leadership mantras," together ...
Dr. Stephanie Bird
Dr. Stephanie Bird
Professional Standards and Ethical Values in Science and Research
Dr. Stephanie J. Bird
Dr. Stephanie J. Bird
Dr. Stephanie J. Bird leads an open discussion concerning ethics in the research community. The discussion centers around a scenario that involves John and Bill, two old friends returning home for Christmas. Their conversation about experiences in their respective research groups is cut short ...
Ecological Intelligence
Ecological Intelligence
12/03/2009 6:30 PM 4"370Daniel Goleman, Psychologist, writer; Deborah G. Ancona, Seley Distinguished Professor of Management; Faculty Director, MIT Leadership Center; Greg Norris, '85, Founder, SylvaticaDescription: Some people believe the planet would be better off, at least ecologically, if ...
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, ...
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's ...
05/07/2009 4:30 PM Sheraton BostonWilliam Aulet, SM '94, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; Jacques Beaudry"Losique, SM '92, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy; U.S. Department of Energy; ; Christina Lampe"Onnerud, Founder and CEO, ...
Engineering Leadership - Prof. Joel Schindall - MIT Club of ...
Engineering Leadership - Prof. Joel Schindall - MIT Club of Northern ...
On Tuesday Oct 18th, come hear about one of the newest and most innovative programs at MIT and see how it can apply to you! Launched through a $20 million gift (with a matching requirement) by the Gordon Foundation -- the largest gift made to MIT's School of ...