The City Car
The City Car
03/19/2008 6:00 PM MuseumWilliam J. Mitchell, Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences ; Director, Smart Cities research group, MIT Media Lab; Ryan Chin MA, '00, SM '04, Doctoral Student, Smart Cities ProjectDescription: William Mitchell and Ryan Chin ...
Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics
Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics
Welcome to the Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics, less formally known as the Touch Lab, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Touch Lab was founded by Dr. Mandayam A. Srinivasan in 1990. The goals of research conducted in the "Touch Lab" are to understand human haptics, ...
CIS Starr Forum: Don't Be an American Idiot
CIS Starr Forum: Don't Be an American Idiot
Don't Be an American IdiotHow does the U.S. use human rights in its foreign policy? Does the occupant of the White House matter when it comes to U.S. human interests abroad? What is the role of civil society in making human rights matter?Julie Mertus co-director of ...
The Writing of Fantasy
The Writing of Fantasy
11/14/2007 7:00 PM 32"123Susan Cooper, Author; Gregory Maguire, Author; Roger Sutton, Editor in Chief, The Horn Book; Dr. Robert M. Randolph, Chaplain to the InstituteDescription: Sometimes the world gives off a glare "that's hard to look at directly," says Susan Cooper, and for her, making ...
New Lessons in Cancer Research
New Lessons in Cancer Research
10/24/2007 6:00 PM MuseumJacqueline Lees, SM '86, PhD '90, Associate Director, Center for Cancer Research and Professor, Dept of BiologyDescription: Cancer is a conniving enemy. Try to kill it off through surgery or chemotherapy, and it finds a way to sneak back in. Jacqueline Lees tells an ...
Human Rights and Politics in Israel"Palestine
Human Rights and Politics in Israel"Palestine
10/22/2007 6:30 PM 66"110Jeff Halper, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; Anat Biletzki, Professor of Philosophy, Tel Aviv UniversityDescription: Human rights are central to the fraught politics between Israelis and Palestinians, these two panelists argue. ...
The Dignity of Difference
The Dignity of Difference
10/16/2007 4:30 PM Wong AuditoriumSir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British CommonwealthDescription: In a talk that interweaves philosophy, history, religion and some classic rabbinic banter, Sir Jonathan Sacks calls for a "paradigm shift in ...
Where Morals Come From (And Why it Matters)
Where Morals Come From (And Why it Matters)
09/20/2007 5:30 PM Wong AuditoriumBeatriz Luna, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; John Mikhail, Associate Professor, Law Center and Philosophy Department, Georgetown University; Patrick Byrne, ...
When I'm 64: Discounting, Time Preference, and Personal ...
When I'm 64: Discounting, Time Preference, and Personal Identity
06/09/2007 9:00 AM Shane Frederick, Sarofim Family Career Development Professor, and Associate Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDescription: Neither philosophers nor economists can satisfactorily explain some quirky aspects of ...
A.B.L.E. Tech: Achieving Better Life Experiences for People ...
A.B.L.E. Tech: Achieving Better Life Experiences for People with Injury, ...
06/06/2007 5:30 PM KresgeJohn Hockenberry, Distinguished Fellow, MIT Media Lab;Host, The Takeaway; Hugh Herr, SM '93, Assoc. Prof, MIT Media Lab; Dean Kamen, Founder, DEKA ResearchDescription: Imagine a time when technology trumps injury and disease, and the very ...
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
04/02/2007 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPhilip G. Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford UniversityDescription: Perhaps no one comprehends the roots of depravity and cruelty better than Philip Zimbardo. He is renowned for such research as the Stanford Prison ...
What's New at the Media Lab?
What's New at the Media Lab?
03/01/2007 5:00 PM 3"270Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; Frank Moss, Director, MIT Media Lab; Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences; Jerome B. Wiesner Professorship of Media ...
Counting the Dead in Iraq
Counting the Dead in Iraq
02/27/2007 4:30 PM E51-345Gilbert Burnham, Co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins UniversityDescription: It's no wonder there was an outcry when Gilbert Burnham's group released its report on mortality in ...
Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
09/19/2006 6:00 PM MuseumNancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of BiologyDescription: Through her rapport with the zebrafish, Nancy Hopkins has made large contributions to the fields of developmental biology and cancer research. But her model organism, and to some ...
Fighting Poverty: What Works? The Work of the Abdul Latif ...
Fighting Poverty: What Works? The Work of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty ...
06/10/2006 11:00 AM KresgeEsther Duflo, PhD '99, Abdul Latif Jameel Prof of Poverty Allev & Develop Department of EconomicsDescription: Esther Duflo hopes to take the measure of a wide range of anti-poverty programs. Applying scientific methodology, her colleagues and ...
Immunology and Cancer
Immunology and Cancer
06/08/2006 9:00 AM 46-3002Jianzhu Chen, Cottrell Professor of Biology;; Professor of ImmunologyDescription: Jianzhu Chen lays out the thorny challenges of harnessing the immune system to fight cancer. He starts with the basics: how the body employs two levels of defense against pathogens: ...
The RNAi Revolution
The RNAi Revolution
06/08/2006 10:30 AM 46-3002Phillip A. Sharp, HM, Institute Professor; Founding Director, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Description: When a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of molecular biology embraces a new area of research as revolutionary, attention must be paid. Phillip A. Sharp's own ...
Animal Models of Cancer
Animal Models of Cancer
06/07/2006 11:00 AM 46-3002Jacqueline Lees, SM '86, PhD '90, Associate Director, Center for Cancer Research and Professor, Dept of BiologyDescription: Jacqueline Lees holds the lowly mouse in high regard. It is -beautifully developed" as a model system for cancer. Lees says that while ...
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
06/07/2006 2:30 PM 46-3002Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Member, Whitehead InstituteDescription: Eric Lander likens the current age of biological discovery to the days of great ocean-going exploration. After the world was mapped, ...
Introduction and Overview
Introduction and Overview
06/07/2006 8:00 AM 46-3002Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; ; Tyler Jacks, Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and David H. Koch Professor, MITInvestigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Description: This inaugural address lays the groundwork for an 11-part ...