Autism Research: Progress and Promises
Autism Research: Progress and Promises
10/14/2010 4:45 PM 46Gerald Fischbach, Scientific Director, The Simons FoundationDescription: "Imagine what it's like to go through life without understanding what people you are with are thinking," poses Gerald Fischbach. "You have no way of gauging whether they are angry, sad or happy." At ...
McGovern Institute: Ten Years of Understanding the Brain in ...
McGovern Institute: Ten Years of Understanding the Brain in Health and ...
10/14/2010 4:00 PM 46Robert Desimone, Director, McGovern Institute; The Doris and Don Berkey Professor of NeuroscienceDescription: Psychiatric illness and neurological disorders such as autism, depression, and Alzheimer's disease cause countless families to suffer, ...
Engineering Smarter Drivers
Engineering Smarter Drivers
10/05/2010 4:00 PM 4"237Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, MIT Media LabDescription: While automakers market increasingly intelligent cars, they may be missing the point. No matter how sophisticated the ...
Public-health networks
Public-health networks
Assistant professor at MIT Sloan Damon Centola describes research in which he compared the dissemination of public-health information through social networks with two different structures.
A Network Biology Approach to Cancer
A Network Biology Approach to Cancer
James Collins - Boston University
RAS and PI 3-kinase Signaling Networks in Cancer
RAS and PI 3-kinase Signaling Networks in Cancer
Julian Downward - Cancer Research UK, London Research Center
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive ...
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive Exploration for ...
05/20/2010 6:00 PM Morss Hall Walker Memorial Ben Shneiderman, University of MarylandDescription: A focus on designing technologies that allow the "visualization of things not visible" has been at the center of Ben Shneiderman's work over the past two decades. He ...