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EnergyInnovationatScale
From: MIT World on Sat, Oct 16 2010 6:27 PM
The United States urgently needs a transformation of its energy supply both to address climate change and for reasons of energy security. To meet this immense challenge, the nation requires not just technological breakthroughs, but heavy lifting from big industry as well as government guidance, ...
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TVorNotTVThatsNottheQuestion
From: MIT World on Wed, Oct 13 2010 4:12 PM
While Alice Cahn cites evidence that traditional TV viewing is alive and well, her panelists line up to describe a TV industry under siege by digital competitors, and in the throes of major change. In the course of this session, which focuses on how television engages a young(er) audience, a gen...
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ParticipatoryCultureTheCultureofDemocracyandEducationinaHypermediatedSociety
From: MIT World on Tue, Oct 12 2010 2:07 PM
Even back in the early days of Comparative Media Studies (CMS), when Henry Jenkins and colleagues met in the basement of the Media Lab, there was much discussion of how new media might shape learning and spur novel forms of expression and community engagement. Over the years, as Jenkins and thes...
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WashingtonRulesAmerica39sPathtoPermanentWar
From: MIT World on Tue, Oct 05 2010 6:37 PM
Washington stubbornly sticks to national security policies that don’t work, are devoid of moral considerations, sap the Treasury and rob future generations, says Andrew J. Bacevich. In a brief talk that leads to a candid and sometimes impassioned give and take with his audience, Bacevich describ...
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DisruptingClassHowDisruptiveInnovationWillChangetheWaytheWorldLearns
From: MIT World on Mon, Oct 04 2010 10:24 AM
Can a theory that explains why successful organizations fail and newcomers prevail help turn around America’s public schools? Michael B. Horn describes how the idea of disruptive innovation, developed by management researcher and author Clayton M. Christensen, can provide a fresh perspective on ...
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InternationalMediaFlowsGlobalMediaandCulture
From: MIT World on Wed, Sep 29 2010 12:56 PM
Ian Condry introduces five graduates of the Comparative Media Studies Program—Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Jing Wang, Orit Kuritsky, Ana Domb —in this final panel, who share their views and experiences about the international/global dimension of the program. ‘Comparative’ can be i...
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InnovationSpotlightBringingChildrensMediaofftheScreen
From: MIT World on Tue, Sep 28 2010 1:50 PM
Working with motors, sensors, sophisticated algorithms and fuzzy puppets, Cynthia Breazeal may finally realize one of childhood’s fondest dreams: imaginary characters that assume a physical reality, and stories that leap from the page into three dimensions. Virtual play can take a child...
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TheMediumDoesntMatter
From: MIT World on Wed, Sep 15 2010 12:52 PM
In an era of packaged toys and online games, have our children lost the knack of creative play? While American kids may never again prefer sticks and other found objects to the manufactured experience, Laura Seargeant Richardson of frog design believes children can still evolve from game consume...
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AutonomousVehiclesandUrbanMobility
From: MIT World on Tue, Sep 14 2010 3:48 PM
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 reasons why autonomous vehicles might be the preferred choice, if not the typical one. Autonomous ve...
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ToyingwithTransmediaTheFutureofEntertainmentisChildsPlay
From: MIT World on Tue, Sep 14 2010 2:48 PM
In what could be the ultimate twist on Toy Story, Henry Jenkins suggests that action figures — those Star Wars and Masters of the Universe dolls from a few decades ago -- had the power to spark human creativity and transcend their original function. Jenkins argues such toys served children...
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NetworkDrivenTransportation
From: MIT World on Fri, Sep 10 2010 3:28 PM
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, and help drivers avoid traffic congestion, use the road system more effectively, and manage the parking supply. Li-Shiuan ...
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FromRelieftoReconstructionPracticalandPolicyChallenges
From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:02 AM
As the United Nations and worldwide NGOs face the challenges of providing basic services to the survivors of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake, Oxfam’s Raymond Offenheiser scrutinizes what will ultimately be “crucial to the outcome, in the Haitian context, of a successful recovery and rehabili...
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LunchwithaLaureateRobertMerton
From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM
As an MIT Museum audience peppers him with queries ranging from the barter system to development, trade relations, and the role of intuition in economics, Nobel Prize-winner Robert Merton pushes back against any assumptions that he might be a “renaissance man.” He carefully steers listeners to h...
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TheInteractionBetweenPovertyGrowthandDemocracy
From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM
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 transformation, having risen from poverty in an Andean village to top political power, where he initiated a process of economic and so...
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BillPorterinConversationwithHowardAnderson
From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM
Some of the lessons Bill Porter picked up as a 13-year-old ranch hand in Colorado seem to have lasted a lifetime. When his boss told him to drive over a treacherous mountain pass into town for some chicken feed, Porter said he could not yet drive. He was told, “Just do it.” And when he faced tak...
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LunchwithaLaureateRichardSchrock
From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM
Growing up in Indiana, exploring the local woods and pit where fossils were found, Richard Schrock early on became interested in the natural world. He was captivated by the way things worked. When he was eight, his older brother gave him a chemistry set and he knew that was what he wanted to do....
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RusnanoFosteringNanotechnologyInnovationinRussia
From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM
In both lecture format and conversation with Sloan Senior Lecturer Noubar Afeyan, RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais presents an ambitious plan to create Russia’s Nanotechnology Center—a $10 billion, entrepreneurial ecosystem that incorporates education, research and business incubation. Noting that a ...
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DenialismMediaintheAgeofDisinformation
From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM
A few hundred years after the Enlightenment, western civilization is rushing back to the Dark Ages. The causes are debatable, but, argue these science journalists, the public increasingly rejects the findings of science, from climate change to evolution, and is turning away from rationality and ...
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JenkinsFarewellReflectionsonaCareeratMIT
From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM
In conversation with William Uricchio, Henry Jenkins returns to reflect on his time at MIT and offers insights into MIT’s culture, his new life at USC, and the state of digital cultures, new media and collective intelligence. Jenkins shares that complex feeling of loving and hating MIT,...
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Capitalism30AnInstitutionalRevolutionIntheMaking
From: MIT World on Sun, Sep 05 2010 7:01 AM
Otto Scharmer describes his theory of capitalism 3.0. More details about the lecture coming soon.
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