Why Newspapers Matter
Why Newspapers Matter
10/05/2006 5:00 PM BartosJerome Armstrong, Founder, Netroots.com; Pablo Boczkowski, Professor of Communications Studies at Northwestern University ; Dante Chinni, Senior Research Associate, Project for Excellence in Journalism; David Thorburn, MIT Professor of LiteratureMacVicar Faculty ...
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; ...
VoIP Drupal webinar: Building sites that make and receive ...
VoIP Drupal webinar: Building sites that make and receive phone calls
As part of this webinar, you will learn about VoIP Drupal, a new open source framework that makes it easy to build websites that almost literally pick-up the phone.
Unlock Your Social Media Potential - MIT Club of Northern ...
Unlock Your Social Media Potential - MIT Club of Northern California
Ever wonder how to set up your personal and corporate social media strategy? How do you leverage social media to build your start-up's presence? What's the technology that enables it and what are the differences between various platforms? What is the ...
TV News in Transition
TV News in Transition
04/06/2006 5:00 PM BartosStuart Brotman, Founder and President, Brotman Communications; Visiting Scholar, Comparative Media Studies, MIT; Neal Shapiro, Former President, NBC News ; ; Juju Chang, Correspondent, ABC News Description: One of broadcast journalism's power couples reminisce about ...
The Six Webs, 10 Years On
The Six Webs, 10 Years On
09/29/2005 10:30 AM KresgeBill Joy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Former Chief Scientist, Sun MicrosystemsDescription: It's a good thing that a decade ago, some engineers at Sun Microsystems became dissatisfied with the limitations of the desktop PC and with kludgy TV remote ...
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to ...
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, ...
10/22/2007 4:00 PM BartosCharles B. Perrow, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale UniversityDescription: It's time to trade in the Department of Homeland Security for a Department of Homeland Vulnerabilities, says Charles Perrow. At its peril, our nation "privileges ...
The Future of Work
The Future of Work
06/05/2004 11:00 AM WongThomas Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT SloanDescription: In Thomas Malone's optimistic view of the future, the human values of creativity and freedom ultimately triumph, and business leads the way. This ...
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
03/01/2010 4:45 PM Wong AuditoriumJerry Mechling, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School; Nick Grossman, Director of Civic Works, The Open Planning Project; Laurel Ruma, Editor, O'Reilly Media; John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Fndtn; Chris ...
The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband"Enabled World
The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband"Enabled World
03/01/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEugene J. Huang, Government Operations Director, National Broadband Task Force, Federal Communications CommissionDescription: The digital revolution that brought us Facebook, Twitter and YouTube could help revive participatory ...
The Enernet
The Enernet
03/04/2008 4:00 PM 34"101Robert Metcalfe, '68, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners; Founder, 3Com CorporationDescription: One of telecom's living legends, Robert Metcalfe, has signed on to MIT's Energy Initiative, and gone about mining the history of the Internet for lessons on how to ...
The Akamai Story: From Theory to Practice
The Akamai Story: From Theory to Practice
If you have ever wondered what it means for a website to become "Akamaized," this lecture about the company's origins explains much of the mystery.
Technologies and Emerging Democracies: Building a Better ...
Technologies and Emerging Democracies: Building a Better Gatekeeper
10/08/2008 6:00 PM MuseumEthan Zuckerman, Fellow, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Law SchoolDescription: Don't forsake The New York Times for online media, instructs Ethan Zuckerman, because newspapers provide opportunities for learning ...
Strategy for High Tech Companies-What to Think About
Strategy for High Tech Companies-What to Think About
06/05/2004 10:00 AM WongMichael Cusumano, Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of ManagementDescription: If you are starting out in the software business, Michael Cusumano has some advice for you: think hard about whether to specialize in products or ...
Strategic UX for Drupal Projects
Strategic UX for Drupal Projects
Design 4 Drupal Camp Boston 2012: Strategic UX for Drupal Projects presented by Dani Nordin
Sprout: a pencil with a seed
Sprout: a pencil with a seed
Students in Product Design (2.744) asked, "What if pencils could grow?"
Social Media on a Shoestring
Social Media on a Shoestring - presentation by MIT social media & email ...
Stephanie Hatch, MIT's new social media and email marketing specialist, covers social media strategy, tips and tools for using social media with limited staff resources and methods for streamlining efforts.
Scalable Stylesheets- Theming with Modular CSS
Scalable Stylesheets- Theming with Modular CSS
Scalable Stylesheets- Theming with Modular CSS presented by John Ferris
Relearning Learning--Applying the Long Tail to Learning
Relearning Learning--Applying the Long Tail to Learning
12/01/2006 8:30 AM Tang Center/WongJohn Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar, USCDescription: In a digitally connected, rapidly evolving world, we must transcend the traditional Cartesian models of learning that prescribe -pouring knowledge into somebody's head," says John ...
Race, Politics and American Media
Race, Politics and American Media
10/08/2009 5:00 PM Juan Williams, News analyst, NPR; J. Phillip Thompson, Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT; David Thorburn, MIT Professor of Literature, MacVicar Faculty FellowDescription: The collapse of print and other traditional news and ...