"The New Epoch" and the 21st Century Imperative for ...
"The New Epoch" and the 21st Century Imperative for Engineering History
05/02/2008 2:00 PM Bartos theaterDavid P. Billington, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering; Princeton University; Description: Great civil engineers finds an aesthetic appropriate for their building's material and structure, assertsDavid Billington, whose life work ...
Beirut, Beirut
Beirut, Beirut
04/01/2002, 5:20, 10-485 Hashim Sarkis Through a series of cases in the history of the reconstruction of Beirut (from 1990 to the present), Hashim Sarkis illustrates a number of points and characteristics about Beirut's resilience. The type of resilience that Beirut exhibits is shaped to a ...
Building Responsive Cities: Technology, Design, and ...
Building Responsive Cities: Technology, Design, and Development
04/04/2008 1:30 PM Broad InstituteDennis Frenchman, MCP '76, MAA '76, Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Director, City Design and Development, MIT; Antonio di Mambro, '71, MAA '77, MCP '77, Principal, Antonio di Mambro+ Associates; Martha Lampkine ...
Catalytic Cracking
Catalytic Cracking
Associate Media Lab Director Andy Lippman challenges us to recognize common flaws plaguing all our institutions as a first step toward meaningful redesign.
Challenges in Nation Building
Challenges in Nation Building
09/29/2009 2:30 PM 10"250President José Ramos"Horta, President, East Timor, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize LaureateDescription: At times humorous and defiant, JoséRamos"Horta describes nurturing the 21st century's first sovereign state through its formative years. The journey of East ...
Cities and Resurrection: Jerusalem and Us
Cities and Resurrection: Jerusalem and Us
9/11/2002, 5:30, 1-190 Julian Beinart The presentation is a case study of Jerusalem, the most destroyed and rebuilt city in history, and a major site for the three great monotheistic religions which are now adhered to by more than half the religious population of the ...
Data-driven Traffic Modeling, Prediction, and Planning
Data-driven Traffic Modeling, Prediction, and Planning
03/15/2011 4:00 PM 3"270Daniela Rus, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Director of CSAIL; Description: Some professors work primarily in labs, and others mainly at desks. Daniela Rus conducts her research on the bustling streets of Singapore, ...
Economic Policy Challenges: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy
Economic Policy Challenges: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy
01/27/2011 1:15 PM KresgeRicardo Caballero, PhD '88, Ford Professor of Economics and Department Head, MIT; Pedro Aspe, PhD '78, Co"Chairman, Evercore Partners and Chairman and CEO, Protego; Olivier Blanchard, PhD '77, Class of 1941 Professor of Economics, MIT and ...
Engineering Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges in ...
Engineering Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges in Healthcare
12/14/2006 4:00 PM E51-345Daniel Z. Aronzon, Pres. and CEO, Vassar Bros Med. Ctr; ; Nicholas Christiano, Jr., VP and CIO of Healthquest (parent company of Vassar Brothers); Stephen A. Katz, Chief Med Officer, Vassar Brothers Med Ctr. ; Irving Wladawsky-Berger, ...
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
09/21/2009 4:00 PM 34"101President John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001"2009Description: After centuries of insufferable oppression by colonial powers, bloody independence struggles, and corrupt home"grown regimes, "Africa today is quickly awakening, and determined to ...
Fires, Earthquakes, Modernization and Air Strikes: The ...
Fires, Earthquakes, Modernization and Air Strikes: The Destruction and ...
05/06/2002, 5:30, 10-485 Carolina Hein Natural disasters, fires, and earthquakes, destroyed Japan's cities in whole or in part on numerous occasions over the last centuries. Human intervention, political change, modernization, and the air raids of the Second World War ...
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One ...
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One Scientist's ...
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 ...
Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key
Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key
06/06/2009 10:30 AM Wong AuditoriumYasheng Huang, China Program Assc Professor of International Mgmt; Description: Contrary to popular thinking, China owes its astonishing economic expansion not to far"sighted government policy but to hundreds of millions of ...
Improving Your Commute
Improving Your Commute
Hari Balakrishnan describes three challenges that need to be met in using data to help commuters-pedestrians, bicyclists, drivers-reduce the time (and fuel) spent stuck in traffic.
Leading through Adversity
Leading through Adversity
02/18/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPaul Sagan, President & CEO, Akamai TechnologiesDescription: Few companies have endured such hardship, or risen to such heights in a brief span of time as Akamai Technologies. Paul Sagantells how he became the CEO of this young firm, and helped it survive ...
Looking Ahead to 2020
Looking Ahead to 2020
06/16/2009 11:00 AM Wong AuditoriumWilliam Rouse, SM '70, PhD '72, Executive Director, The Tennenbaum Institute, ; Georgia Institute of Technology ; ; Robert E. Skinner, Jr., Executive Director, Transportation Research Board, National Academies; Joel Moses, PhD '67, MIT Institute Professor; ...
Master's student Megan Lickley measures the risks of ...
Master's student Megan Lickley measures the risks of climate change on ...
A Masters student in the Technology and Policy Program, Megan Lickley studies the impact of climate change on coastal energy infrastructure. In particular, she is looking at how sea level rise and hurricanes will change over time, and how these changes will affect ...
MIT Perspective on Engineering Systems
MIT Perspective on Engineering Systems
06/16/2009 9:15 AM Wong AuditoriumSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Yossi Sheffi, SM '77, PhD '78, Director, Engineering Systems Division, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Director, MIT Center for Transportation and ...
Opening Keynote and Keynote Interview with Jeff Bezos
Opening Keynote and Keynote Interview with Jeff Bezos
09/27/2006 8:30 AM KresgeDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com; Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, Technology ReviewDescription: One of the web's master entrepreneurs has devised a novel way to expand his domain. Jeff ...
Opening Remarks and Keynote: Grand Challenges and ...
Opening Remarks and Keynote: Grand Challenges and Engineering Systems: ...
06/15/2009 8:30 AM Wong AuditoriumJoel Moses, PhD '67, MIT Institute Professor; Daniel Roos, '61, SM '63, PhD '66, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems ; Charles M. Vest, HM, MIT President Emeritus and President, National Academy of ...