You Teach History at MIT?
You Teach History at MIT?
10/18/2003 9:00 AM KresgePauline Maier, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History; Description: "There was a time when it took enormous effort to make MIT students comfortable with subjects that had 'not just one right answer'. And so it has become easier to achieve what I think is ...
Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of ...
Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli ...
02/22/2010 4:30 PM 66"110Victor Kattan, Fellow, University of London; Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: Given the volume of writing on the Arab"Israeli conflict, "you might think that everything has been said," says Noam Chomsky. But Victor Kattan's ...
What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the ...
What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the System of Electing a ...
10/17/2008 11:00 AM Bartos theaterArnold Barnett, PhD '73, George Eastman Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan; Dr. Alexander S. Belenky, Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals; David C. King, Lecturer in Public Policy, JFKennedy ...
What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the ...
What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the System of Electing a ...
10/17/2008 9:15 AM Bartos theaterAkhil Amar, Professor of Law at Yale Law School; Vikram Amar, Professor of Law UC Davis Law School; Robert Bennett, Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law, Northwestern Law; Alexander Keyssar, Professor of History and Social Policy, ...
Welcome and Opening Remarks, History
Welcome and Opening Remarks, History
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; ...
America's Path to Permanent War
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
Washington stubbornly sticks to national security policies that don't work, are devoid of moral considerations, and rob future generations, says Andrew J. Bacevich
U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?
U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?
09/23/2009 4:30 PM Wong AuditoriumJulia Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow For Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Wayne Smith, Senior Fellow and Director of the Cuba Program, Center for International PolicyDescription: To the dismay of ...
TV's New Economics
TV's New Economics
03/08/2006 5:00 PM BartosHenry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; David F. Poltrack, Executive Vice President, Research and Planning, CBS Television ; Jorge Reina Schement, Distinguished Professor of ...
Trauma and Rebuilding in the Digital Electronic Era
Trauma and Rebuilding in the Digital Electronic Era
05/13/2002, 5:30, 10-485 William J. Mitchell Anthony J. Townsend When cities have suffered major destruction in the past, through fire, earthquake, bombing, and so on, the physical rebuilding task has involved (1) recreating network infrastructure -- transportation ...
Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally ...
Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally and Walking the ...
10/20/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Frederick P. Salvucci, '61, SM '62, Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MITDescription: Why do so many sustainable transportation programs turn out, like the Alice in the Wonderland parable to lead us down unexpected ...
The World Economy Blanchard, Caballero and Rigobon
The World Economy Blanchard, Caballero and Rigobon
01/23/2002, 5:00 PM, E51-345 Olivier Blanchard Ricardo Caballero Roberto Rigobon Three members of the Economics Department came together for a discussion on where the world economy appears to be going, and the potential implications of September 11th. School of ...
The Virtues and Limits of Data-Intensive Methods in Korean ...
The Virtues and Limits of Data-Intensive Methods in Korean History
Speaker: Javier Cha. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: The Cold War ended more than twenty years ago, and the average bandwidth of broadband internet in present-day South Korea is reportedly twenty years ahead of that in the United States. Our ...
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture (Part ...
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture
(Part One)
05/08/2004 10:00 AM 26-100Charles Vest, President, MIT; Jame Farver, Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center ; ; James Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University Description: The opening of The Ray and Maria Stata Center, ...
The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years
The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years
09/18/2000 7:00 PM KresgeFranco Modigliani, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Paul A. Samuelson, 1970 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Robert M. Solow, MIT Institute Professor, Emeritus 1987 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsHost(s): Office of the President, Ford/MIT Nobel ...
The Second Law and Statistical Mechanics
The Second Law and Statistical Mechanics
10/04/2007 9:00 AM Broad InstituteDick Bedeaux, Professor II of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NorwayDescription: Dick Bedeaux patiently traces the evolution of the second law of thermodynamics from its formulation in ...
The Second Law and Quantum Physics
The Second Law and Quantum Physics
10/04/2007 10:20 AM Broad InstituteCharles Bennett, IBM Fellow, IBMDescription: In this often droll lecture on a very abstract subject, Charles Bennettexplores entropy, "one of my long loves," and how it relates to quantum information. He first reminds his audience that such information is ...
The Second Law and Cosmology
The Second Law and Cosmology
10/04/2007 11:10 AM Broad InstituteMax Tegmark, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MITDescription: In spite of its old age, the Second Law of Thermodynamics "is alive and kicking," says Max Tegmark, stimulating research on "really, really big puzzles." In Tegmark's case, ...
The Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and ...
The Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City
04/29/2002, 5:30, 10-485 Edward T. Linenthal In this talk, Edward Linenthal discusses the similarities and differences in cultural reactions to the events of September 11, 2001, and the aftermath of the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing of April 19, 1995. He explores ...
The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World's Brains ...
The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World's Brains on your ...
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 ...
The Philosophy of Conflict Resolution
The Philosophy of Conflict Resolution
10/15/2001 10"250John Hume, 1998 Laureate for PeaceHost(s): Office of the President, Ford/MIT Nobel Laureate Lecture Series