As the leader of strategic and integration planning for Google’s 2012 acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Matt Vokoun, LGO ’05, has played a key role in the Internet giant’s move into the mobile space. In a recent web seminar for the LGO community, Matt ...
With knowledge and data, a smarter world will divide work between humans and computers, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said in this Nov. 15, 2011, talk at MIT Sloan.
Join us as we hear pitches from 5 companies who are changing the way online retailers advertise to consumers. We will learn how these innovative entrepreneurs plan to disrupt the web ad online advertising space and dig down to learn more about their ideas and business models. We expect a very ...
Vint Cerf, a coinventor of the Internet's original protocols and now chief Internet evangelist for Google, describes what Google is doing to try to defeat the scourge of Web-based malware.
04/26/2011 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJack Welch, Founder Jack Welch Management Institute Description: Jack Welch has never been one to pussyfoot around when it comes to discussions of leadership, and he doesn't break from form during a lively give"and"take with MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein ...
A missile-targeting technology is adapted to process aerial photos into 3-D city maps sharper than Google Earth's.
04/11/2011 9:00 AM David A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Victor Zue, ScD '76, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director, CSAIL; ...
LGO Web Seminar Series Jim Miller, LGO '93, Vice President of Worldwide Operations, Google Lessons on Leadership and Life Post-LGO Presentation Date: April 8, 2011 Slides from this presentation (Extended version - an abridged slide set was used during the ...
Rafael Marañón, Co-founder MIT Social Media Club Set up your MIT domain blog and configure WordPress blog. Learn blogging best practice Thank you very much all of you for attending today our Workshop: Your very own MIT domain blog. Congratulations to all of you: ...
01/27/2011 3:45 PM KresgeNancy L. Rose, PhD '85, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, MIT; Dennis W. Carlton, SM '74 PhD '75, Katherine Dusak Miller Professor of Economics,; Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Richard Schmalensee, '65 ...
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance.
10/07/2010 4:45 PM 10"250Dr. Charles C"Y Zhang, Ph.D. 94, Founder, Chairman CEO SOHU.COMDescription: Few better personify the vitality and ambition fueling China's economic surge than Charles C"Y Zhang. In this energetic and revelatory talk, Zhang relates his personal ...
09/30/2010 6:30 PM 32"141Aaron Koblin, Abramowitz Artist in Residence, MITDescription: Where others see just data points and fodder for bar graphs, Aaron Koblin visualizes dynamic systems where information assumes forms both abstract and familiar. In this talk, Koblin ...
04/28/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumWilliam A. Porter, SF '67, Co"Founder & Chairman Emeritus, E"Trade Financial Corporation; Howard Anderson, William Porter Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, MIT SloanDescription: Some of the lessons Bill Porter picked ...
The WebPub presentation from Thursday April 1, 2010. There are so many Web Analytics engines available it's hard to decide what to use. And once you have Web Analytics installed-what do you do with all of that data? Our April 1 presentation will talk about some of the ...
Should we view the last 500 years or so of Western culture as a strange interlude, defined by printed page and other artifacts that once dominated the landscape but are now fading in relevance?
This short video summarizes the vehicle assembly and flight test activities from approximately April through June 2009.
06/06/2009 9:00 AM Wong AuditoriumFiona Murray, Sarofim Family Career Development ProfessorDescription: Cooperation may be making us "a little bit too nice" when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there's nothing like competition for injecting ...
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, ...