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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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; ...
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.
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, 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 ...
Professional Standards and Ethical Values in Science and Research
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...