Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
10/01/2010 11:00 AM e14"633Tony Ciochetti, Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate; John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, ...
What Does Re-Engineering Mean for Real Estate?
What Does Re-Engineering Mean for Real Estate?
10/01/2010 2:00 PM e14"633Dr. Ray Torto, Global Chief Economist, CBRE; ; Joseph Azrack, Managing Director, Apollo Commercial Real Estate; Brad Case, Vice President " Research & Industry Information, NAREIT; Tom Garbutt, Managing Director, TIAA"CREF Global Real Estate; ...
William McDonough - Cradle to Cradle: A Strategy of Hope
William McDonough - Cradle to Cradle: A Strategy of Hope
This talk was given on April 22, 2010 as the Earth Day Colloquium, sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative and the United Technologies Corporation. - About the Speaker - William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and ...
Looking Ahead to the Future of NASA
Looking Ahead to the Future of NASA
05/10/2010 3:00 PM 32"123Gen. Charles Bolden, NASA AdministratorDescription: From the MIT News Office: NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. defended President Barack Obama's controversial plans for the U.S. space agency's future and touted the president's plan to invest billions of ...
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. ...
The Interaction Between Poverty, Growth and Democracy
The Interaction Between Poverty, Growth and Democracy
05/03/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPresident Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru 2001"2006Description: Alejandro Toledo has remained a passionate advocate of reform since departing the presidency of Peru in 2006. In his home country, he embodied the possibility of ...
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold.
From Relief to Reconstruction — Practical and Policy ...
From Relief to Reconstruction — Practical and Policy Challenges
Oxfam's Raymond Offenheiser scrutinizes what will ultimately be "crucial to the outcome, in the Haitian context, of a successful recovery and rehabilitation by the Haitian people and for the Haitian nation-distributed leadership.
Passionate about Energy? How One Volunteer Makes a ...
Passionate about Energy? How One Volunteer Makes a Difference
Learn how Douglas Spreng '65 helps advance the MIT Energy Initiative through networking events and philanthropy and what you can do to get involved.
Steve Eppinger on Developing Sustainable Products
Steve Eppinger on Developing Sustainable Products
MIT Sloan Executive Education professor Steve Eppinger describes his research into developing sustainable products. Learn more about professor Steve Eppinger.
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas ...
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in ...
04/06/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Chris Zegras, Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning, MITDescription: It seems that income and travel are inextricably linked. As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint ...
Creating Value in a Volatile World
Creating Value in a Volatile World
02/23/2010 4:00 PM 3"270David Simchi"Levi, Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil EngineeringDescription: The need for flexible management of supply chains to increase operational efficiencies could not be greater, as modern companies outsource and manufacture overseas. David Simchi" Levi ...
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. ...
High-Performance Rechargeable Batteries for Sustainable ...
High-Performance Rechargeable Batteries for Sustainable Transportation and ...
A talk presented by Professor Don Sadoway on January 11, 2010 as part of the MIT Energy Initiative's Energy Futures Week. The road to sustainability is paved with advanced materials. Advances in rechargeable batteries would enable widespread adoption of practical ...
Lifeline for Renewable Power
Lifeline for Renewable Power
General Electric's Juan de Bedout demonstrates the company's software system to improve the electric grid.
Ecological Intelligence
Ecological Intelligence
12/03/2009 6:30 PM 4"370Daniel Goleman, Psychologist, writer; Deborah G. Ancona, Seley Distinguished Professor of Management; Faculty Director, MIT Leadership Center; Greg Norris, '85, Founder, SylvaticaDescription: Some people believe the planet would be better off, at least ecologically, if ...
Session I: Designing for Doubt: Citizen Science and the ...
Session I: Designing for Doubt: Citizen Science and the Challenge of Change
Eric Paulos (Carnegie Mellon). 10/12/2009
Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
11/17/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJeffrey Hollender, Co"founder & Executive Chair; Seventh Generation Description: The "chief inspired protagonist" of one of the nation's oldest and most successful green manufacturers apologizes for delivering a talk "more depressing ...
Education Across Borders: The India Perspective
Education Across Borders: The India Perspective
10/27/2009 3:00 PM 10"250Shri Kapil Sibal, Honourable Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of IndiaDescription: Rickshaw drivers in India are frequent victims of tuberculosis after just a few years inhaling traffic fumes. This near"epidemic went ...
America's Leadership in Clean Energy
America's Leadership in Clean Energy
10/23/2009 12:00 PM KresgePresident Barack Obama, 44th President of the USDescription: In welcoming President Obama, MIT President Susan Hockfield summarizes the vast array of energy innovation at MIT, including the MIT Energy Initiative and the student"led 1700 member Energy Club, and ...