Concentrate on Distracted Driving: A Challenge to MIT ...
Concentrate on Distracted Driving: A Challenge to MIT Students from US ...
05/03/2010 12:00 PM E14"674Ray LaHood, US Secretary of TransportationDescription: From the MIT News Office: Research has shown that talking on a phone while driving, even with a hands"free cellphone, causes as much of an impairment to driving ability as being drunk. ...
Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from the nexus of government openness and digital connectedness?
Blended Learning Revisited
Blended Learning Revisited
Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown.
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
03/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Joseph Sussman, J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing ...
Death of the News?
Death of the News?
03/02/2010 5:30 PM Wong AuditoriumMaria Balinska, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University (on leave from BBC); Susan Glasser, Executive Editor, Foreign Policy; Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, Technology ReviewDescription: While not dead, the U.S. news industry is severely depleted and ...
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 ...
Rebuilding Haiti
Rebuilding Haiti
02/23/2010 4:00 PM Bartos theaterCherie Moit Abbanat, Lecture, Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Architecture, MIT; Michel DeGraff, Associate Professor of Linguistics, MIT; Erica James, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT; Dale Joachim, Visiting Scientist, ...
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 ...
Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Mobility
Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Mobility
12/08/2009 32"124Emilio Frazzoli, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and AstronauticsDescription: If you had half a million dollars, would you opt for a passenger car that could drive itself (called an autonomous vehicle) or would you choose a new Ferrari? Emilio Frazzoli provides a number of ...
Traffic Paradoxes and Route Guidance: Effective Ways of ...
Traffic Paradoxes and Route Guidance: Effective Ways of Reducing ...
12/01/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Andreas Schulz, Patrick McGovern Professor of Mathematics of Operations Research, Head of Operations Research and Statistics Group at the Sloan School of ManagementDescription: It is well know that we cannot engineer our way out of traffic ...
Session III: Reality Mining: The End of Personal Privacy?
Session III: Reality Mining: The End of Personal Privacy?
Anmol Madan, Ben Waber, Margaret Ding, Paul Kominers, Alex (Sandy) Pentland (MIT). 10/12/2009
Session III: Panel
Session III: Panel
Discussion with Session III presenters. Moderator: Leonidas Kontothanassis, Senior Staff Engineer, Performance Analysis, Google Boston Labs. 10/12/2009
Network-Driven Transportation
Network-Driven Transportation
11/03/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Li"Shiuan Peh, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceDescription: Today, cell phones are a menace to safe driving, as they distract operators who should otherwise focus on the road. Tomorrow, cell phones could actually improve our driving, ...
Carbon and Energy Efficient Supply Chains
Carbon and Energy Efficient Supply Chains
10/27/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Edgar Blanco, Research Director at the MIT Center for Transportation & LogisticsDescription: Consumers will soon be able to quantify the carbon footprint of products they consume, and that could begin to change consumer behavior. The common ...
The State of Drupal
The State of Drupal
Dries Buytaert relates a synopsis of his life with Drupal from its inception while a "typical geek" undergraduate in Antwerp in 1999 to the upcoming release of Drupal 7.
Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Leadership and Entrepreneurship
10/20/2009 4:00 PM e51"335David Fialkow, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners; Ben Fischman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Retail Convergence, Inc.; Alex Laats, 89, President, BBN Technologies' Delta DivisionDescription: While their ventures couldn't be more dissimilar -- ...
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.
The Role of Information Technology in Improving Transit ...
The Role of Information Technology in Improving Transit Systems
09/29/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Nigel Wilson, Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: "Punch brothers! Punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!..." This ditty about tram car ticketing made famous by Mark Twain might spring to mind during ...
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Muriel Medard
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Muriel Medard
Professor Muriel Medard of MIT discusses research and education in her group, and the intellectual challenges facing engineers at the frontiers of communications, networks, and coding.
Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy for Movement Disorders
Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy for Movement Disorders
05/07/2009 10:30 AM 46"3002Andres Lozano, University of TorontoDescription: New tools are enabling neuroscientists to break therapeutic ground against daunting disorders like Parkinson's Disease (PD). Andres Lozano is one "of a small group of heroes," in Ann ...