Noam Chomsky on the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Redux
Noam Chomsky on the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Redux
September 22, 2011 - MIT Wong Auditorium - In 1967, as the Vietnam War escalated, Noam Chomsky penned The Responsibility of Intellectuals, a stunning rebuke to scientists and scholars for their subservience to political power. Today we face a similar array of crises, ...
MIT professor Charles Stewart on race and the 2008 election
MIT professor Charles Stewart on race and the 2008 election
MIT Professor Charles Stewart discusses how race played a roll in the election of Barack Obama, but in a way you might not expect. Read more about it here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/racialpolarization-0120.html
Mobile Storytelling in Real Time
Mobile Storytelling in Real Time
Andy Carvin, National Public Radio Liz Henry, BlogHer Dan Sinker, Columbia College Chicago, @mayoremanuel
Plenary: "Civic Media Mobilization"
Plenary: "Civic Media Mobilization"
Successful civic media tools - especially ones designed by this conference's attendees - reengineer how mass-mobilization happens. But does that mean we should turn the page on old lessons? Originally envisioned as a way to connect the like-minded across borders, civic media is proving just ...
Civic Media Session: "Civic Disobedience"
Civic Media Session: "Civic Disobedience"
2011 has seen a wave of popular protests threaten authoritarian regimes around the world. Protests in Tunisia removed a much-loathed dictatorship, and the occupation of Tahrir Square in Cairo promises to reshape the government of Egypt. Even in countries where ...
Steve Kurtz: Cultural Resistance
Steve Kurtz: Cultural Resistance
A Civic Media Session about models and techniques for public interventions and soft subversions aimed at undermining authoritarian tendencies in a time of neo-liberal domination. Known for his work in Electronic Civil Disobedience and BioArt, Steve Kurtz is a founding member of the Critical ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
04/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJohn Reilly, Co"director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management ; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Ronald Prinn, SCD '71, TEPCO ...
Part 1, "[REDACTED]" Censoring Game Politics
Part 1, "[REDACTED]" Censoring Game Politics
Part 1,""[REDACTED]" Censoring Game Politics! Politics is not a topic normally discussed in relation to game rating systems, but censorship of political content--mostly in the form of political symbols--is quite common. Nazi imagery, for example, has a long history of ...
Part 2, "[REDACTED]" Censoring Game Politics
Part 2, "[REDACTED]" Censoring Game Politics
Part 2,""[REDACTED]" Censoring Game Politics! Politics is not a topic normally discussed in relation to game rating systems, but censorship of political content--mostly in the form of political symbols--is quite common. Nazi imagery, for example, has a long history of ...
Part 3, "[REDACTED]" Censoring Game Politics
Part 3, "[REDACTED]" Censoring Game Politics
Part 3,""[REDACTED]" Censoring Game Politics! Politics is not a topic normally discussed in relation to game rating systems, but censorship of political content--mostly in the form of political symbols--is quite common. Nazi imagery, for example, has a long history of ...
Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs IV
Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs IV
03/29/2011 3:30 PM KresgeKatrin Wehrheim, Associate Professor of Mathematics, MIT; Sallie Chisholm, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology, MIT; Nancy Kanwisher, '80, PhD '86, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, ...
The Status of Women in Science and Engineering at MIT
The Status of Women in Science and Engineering at MIT
03/28/2011 9:00 AM KresgeNancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of BiologyDescription: It's difficult to imagine that at one point in her career, National Academy of Science member Nancy Hopkins thought to quit. In her talk, she relates the historical challenges facing ...
Richard Samuels
Richard Samuels
Richard Samuels discusses life at MIT, from PhD student to professor.
A Conversation on Leadership
A Conversation on Leadership
03/03/2011 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumUrsula M. Burns, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Xerox Corporation Description: Her "journey to the top" is one that "could only happen in the United States of America," says Ursula Burns, describing her rise from New York City projects to the apex of ...
How to Make a Great Mistake
How to Make a Great Mistake
02/24/2011 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEllyn McColgan, Director, Primerica, Inc. and Executive Advisor, Aquiline"LCCDescription: Take it from Ellyn McColgan: Colossal, cringe"inducing screw"ups can make rather than break a career. In a self"deprecating talk aimed at educating an audience training ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice and the Quality ...
02/09/2011 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Roland S. Martin, CNN contributorDescription: Exploring the past opens up new perspectives on the present and offers ways of navigating a challenging future, these speakers suggest, in a call to ...
Philip Morrison and Lester Thurow - Symposium on ...
Philip Morrison and Lester Thurow - Symposium on Forecasting the Future ...
Physicist Philip Morrison (Institute Professor) and economist Lester Thurow (Dean of the Sloan School of Management) address senior executives at the "Symposium on Forecasting the Future Across Industries: Tech/ Science/ Art/ Economics/ Politics" held at MIT's ...
Gabriella Coleman: "'I did it for the Lulz! but I stayed ...
Gabriella Coleman: "'I did it for the Lulz! but I stayed for the outrage:' ...
A CMS-sponsored talk on civic media issues. Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella (Biella) Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. Between ...
Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess ...
Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess President Obama on ...
11/09/2010 4:30 PM Bartos theaterRichard Samuels, Ph D, '80, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Director, Center for International Studies; Henry D. Jacoby, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan; Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political ...