The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and ...
The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research
05/12/2009 4:00 PM 10"250Steven Chu, Secretary of EnergyDescription: The situation facing our planet could hardly be more dire: There's increasingly dangerous competition among nations for ever scarce energy resources, and climate change is racing ahead of ...
The End of Saddam and the Future of Iraq
The End of Saddam and the Future of Iraq
01/08/2004 12:00PM Killian HallKanan Makiya, '71, MAR '74, The Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University; Founder, Iraq Memory FoundationDescription: Saddam Hussein left a very visible legacy from 30 bloody years in power: countless victims and ...
The Economic Meltdown: What Have We Learned, if Anything?
The Economic Meltdown: What Have We Learned, if Anything?
02/05/2010 4:15 PM 32"123Paul Krugman, PhD'77, Professor of Economics and International Affairs; Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton UniversityDescription: The U.S. has had more than 70 years to come to terms with the Great Depression, ...
The Current Crisis in the Middle East
The Current Crisis in the Middle East
09/21/2006 7:00 PM 32-123Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: True to form, Noam Chomsky makes a sweeping and copiously detailed indictment of U.S. Middle East policy, brooking no contrary or alternate views. His history-filled lecture (interrupted by occasional applause) ...
The Clean Energy Revolution
The Clean Energy Revolution
05/03/2010 4:30 PM Copley Place MarriottBrian Dumaine, Sr., Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine; Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director Nth Power; Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious MaterialsDescription: Beyond guts, a great business ...
Technology, Policy and Education: Leaders in Technology and ...
Technology, Policy and Education: Leaders in Technology and Policy
06/08/2006 1:00 PM E51-345Dr. Frank Remsen Field, '78, SM '81, PhD '85, Associate Director, TPP; Nicholas Mabey, SM '93, Founder and Director E3G; Jessica Stern, SM '88, Senior Fellow, Kennedy School of Government; Bryan Moser, '87, SM '89, President and CEO Global ...
Technology, Policy and Education: Education for Leadership ...
Technology, Policy and Education: Education for Leadership in Engineering
06/08/2006 3:05 PM E51-345Dava Newman, Sm '89, PhD '92, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems; Granger Morgan, Lord University Professor and Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy; Carnegie Mellon University ; ; Sheila Widnall, '60, ...
TalkBack 360: Science on Trial
TalkBack 360: Science on Trial
Rebuilding Credibility in the Face of Natural Disaster : After the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake struck the Italian region of Abruzzo, killing more than 300 people, six seismologists were convicted of manslaughter. Nearly three years later, the city is still rebuilding. In this event ...
Sustaining Cities: Environment, Economic Development, and ...
Sustaining Cities: Environment, Economic Development, and Empowerment
04/04/2008 10:30 AM Broad InstituteJudith Layzer, PhD '99, Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy; Jason Corburn, MCP '96, PhD '02, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley; J. ...
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World ...
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World and for MIT
02/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, and; Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Description: Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds' growing population. ...
Sue Tierney: Why is modernizing our energy technologies so ...
Sue Tierney: Why is modernizing our energy technologies so darn hard, but ...
- Abstract - So much work is underway to advance energy technologies to make them more efficient, have a lower carbon footprint, more accessible to communities, and so forth. And yet, it is so hard to put new energy technologies into place in domestic (and many ...
Studying scientists with Pierre Azoulay
Studying scientists with Pierre Azoulay
Pierre Azoulay, an economist at MIT Sloan, studies how life scientists work - or, more precisely, what makes them work well.
Solar Energy as a Major Replacement for Fossil Fuel
Solar Energy as a Major Replacement for Fossil Fuel
10/09/2007 3:30 PM 10"250Roger Angel, Director, Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory, University of ArizonaDescription: It took a crisis to shift Roger Angel's gaze from the stars back to Earth, but we may all benefit from his full attention, locked as it is on ...
Severin Borenstein: Meeting US Energy and Climate ...
Severin Borenstein: Meeting US Energy and Climate Challenges with Rational ...
This talk was given on May 5, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series - Abstract - As US energy challenges mount, the public and political debate continues to demonstrate disturbing misunderstandings of both the problems and potential solutions. The US faces three ...
Session II: An Internet Data Sharing Framework for ...
Session II: An Internet Data Sharing Framework for Balancing Privacy and ...
Erin Kenneally, Kimberly Claffy, (UC San Diego). 10/12/2009
Session I: Panel
Session I: Panel
Discussion with Session I presenters. Moderator: Allan Friedman, Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Research in Computation and Society, Harvard University. 10/12/2009
Science Policy, Politics and Human Rights
Science Policy, Politics and Human Rights
Kurt Gottfried, PhD '55, Co-Founder and Chair, Union of Concerned Scientists; Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cornell University; Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University In this ...
Science Policy and the Obama Administration Advice to a New ...
Science Policy and the Obama Administration Advice to a New President
11/19/2008 6:00 PM Broad InstituteMarc A. Kastner, Dean, MIT School of ScienceDescription: The mood of gloom has eased somewhat within the science community, with the advent of a new presidential administration, and Marc Kastner captures the mix of hopefulness and ...
Science Policy and the Obama Administration
Science Policy and the Obama Administration
Science, as it has in the past, will play a vital role in determining America's economic viability. Yet, our global leadership in this crucial area is more vulnerable than ever. Scientists in the U.S. face major roadblocks: a decrease in federal funding, restrictive ...
Robotics in Space Exploration
Robotics in Space Exploration
01/10/2006 6:00 PM MuseumRodney A. Brooks, Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Heartland RoboticsDescription: As eager as he is to invent robots that can travel to a moon of Saturn or Jupiter, and function autonomously in these hostile environments, Rodney Brooks would love a shot ...