A Farewell to Geopolitics: American Grand Strategy for the ...
A Farewell to Geopolitics: American Grand Strategy for the New Era
On March 6, 2012, MIT Political Science Professor Stephen Van Evera offered his thoughts on American grand strategy for the new era.
A Few Things Learned from Craigslist
A Few Things Learned from Craigslist
11/14/2008 12:00 PM NE25Craig Newmark, Founder, CraigslistDescription: In his unassuming way, Craig Newmark believes his eponymous website might just help nudge people toward greater civic engagement. While Craigslist.org "is a simple platform where people help each other out," focusing on ...
A Few Words from the 2012 SA+P Urban Studies and Planning ...
A Few Words from the 2012 SA+P Urban Studies and Planning Graduates
The DUSP grad students were asked a few questions at the party after the 2012 graduation ceremony.
A game to map the brain: Amy Robinson at TEDxNijmegen 2013
A game to map the brain: Amy Robinson at TEDxNijmegen 2013
Amy Robinson is a research affiliate in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
A Genius for Change, and the Passion to Do It
A Genius for Change, and the Passion to Do It
10/10/2007 6:00 PM MuseumAmy Smith, '84, SM '95, ENG '95, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Jules Walter, '08, MIT '08 (Computer Science); Kendra Johnson, MIT '09; Amos Winter, SM '05, M.S. Mech Engineering, '05Description: If you live in a ...
A Life in Public Service
A Life in Public Service
04/13/2007 2:30 PM 32"123Senator Edward M. KennedyDescription: Senator Ted Kennedy delivers a scathing denunciation of the Bush Administration's science and research agenda, accusing the government of "fighting a war on truth on many fronts." He lashes out at people in power "who believe that ...
A Network Biology Approach to Cancer
A Network Biology Approach to Cancer
James Collins - Boston University
A New Age of Exploration: From Earth to Mars
A New Age of Exploration: From Earth to Mars
06/07/2008 10:30 AM KresgeDava Newman, Sm '89, PhD '92, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering SystemsDescription: Happily for human spaceflight, Dava Newman and her students enjoy working in such laboratories as NASA's "Vomit Comet." Newman's work ...
A New Conversation with Jack Welch
A New Conversation with Jack Welch
04/26/2011 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJack Welch, Founder Jack Welch Management Institute Description: Jack Welch has never been one to pussyfoot around when it comes to discussions of leadership, and he doesn't break from form during a lively give"and"take with MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein ...
A New Language for Mental Illness
A New Language for Mental Illness
10/14/2010 5:00 PM 46Jane Pauley, TV host, authorDescription: Mental illness needs a "new narrative," say Jane Pauley. Just as cancer has moved from the shadows to pink ribbons and races for the cure, mental illness must shed its public aura of fear and shame. "Shrewd move; let's do that," ...
A Phantasmal Media Approach to Empowerment, Identity and ...
A Phantasmal Media Approach to Empowerment, Identity and Computation
Courtesy of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture Part of Digital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Future Dr. Fox Harrell, Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
A Policy on Leadership
A Policy on Leadership
03/31/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEdmund (Ted) F. Kelly, PhD '70, Chairman, President & CEO; Liberty Mutual Description: Ted Kelly walks a Sloan audience through the process of turning around a failing company. His formula? Develop two key things: a fact based analytical organization, and ...
A Reading by Jamaica Kincaid
A Reading by Jamaica Kincaid
04/04/2007 6:30 PM 6-120Jamaica Kincaid, Writer, Visiting Professor, Harvard Univ.Description: Many writers long to see their work appear in The New Yorker. Miraculously, Jamaica Kincaid got her start in print generating -Talk of the Town" pieces for the magazine, back in the (good old) days ...
A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public ...
A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public Interest Uses of ...
11/06/2007 4:30 PM 32G"449Pamela Samuelson, Chancellor's Professor of Information Management and of Law at the University of California at BerkeleyDescription: Pamela Samuelson walks her audience through dense and murky regulations and case law surrounding digital ...
A Roadmap for the Edge of the Internet
A Roadmap for the Edge of the Internet
04/08/2008 8"404Dr. Alan Benner, Senior Engineer, IBM Server DivisionDescription: In the curious way of technological evolution, we first had computers that occupied entire rooms, watched them shrink to desktop, laptop and palm"sized devices, and now find ourselves coming full circle, and ...
A scientist's eye view of research for sustainable energy
A scientist's eye view of research for sustainable energy
October 24, 2012 Speaker Ellen Williams, Chief Scientist, BP Abstract We face one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century: providing more and more energy to meet rising demand, but keeping it affordable, secure, reliable and sustainable. But ...
A Systems Approach for Addressing the Crisis in Employment ...
A Systems Approach for Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer ...
MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar SeriesNicholas A. Ashford, PhD., JDProfessor of Technology and PolicyDirector, MIT Technology and Law ProgramDate: March 19, 2012 At present, national and global reforms are focused on improving the financial system, which is not ...
A Systems View of Enabling Enterprise Change
A Systems View of Enabling Enterprise Change -- Mark Moran, SDM '09 ...
About the Presentation Enterprise change is hard, especially for mature, successful companies. Many of the keys to accomplishing enterprise change come from seeing the enterprise itself as a complex system. This presentation will discuss many of the ingredients ...
A View From Industry
A View From Industry
09/19/2008 10:40 AM KresgeGary Cowger, SF '78, Group Vice President of Global Manufacturing and Labor Relations, General Motors CorpDescription: GM knows you'll be skeptical, says Gary Cowger, but this icon of American business has committed to transforming itself via a comprehensive regime ...
A Virtual Information Evening - MIT SDM
A Virtual Information Evening - MIT System Design and Management Program
A brief introduction into the program focus, and availability for mid-career technical professionals as either on-campus or distance students.