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Democracy After Citizens United
September 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Just when it seemed the corrosive influence of big money on American politics could not be greater, the Supreme Court gave corporations full license to exercise 'Free speech' during campaign...
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Energy Innovation At Scale
September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
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...
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Washington Rules: America's Path To Permanent War
September 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Washington stubbornly sticks to national security policies that don't work, are devoid of moral considerations, sap the Treasury and rob future generations, says the author. In a brief talk that...
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change The Way The World Learns
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The author describes how the idea of disruptive innovation, developed by management researcher and author Clayton M. Christensen, can provide a fresh perspective on struggling education systems,...
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International Media Flows: Global Media And Culture
April 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The moderator introduces five graduates of the Comparative Media Studies Program - in this final webcast, who share their views and experiences about the international/global dimension of the...
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Creativity And Collaboration In The Digital Age
April 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In a panel moderated by the presenter of this webcast, five former Comparative Media Studies (CMS) students discuss their personal experiences within the CMS program and the impact it has had on...
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Visual Overviews For Cultural Heritage: Interactive Exploration For Scholars In The Humanities, Arts, And Beyond
May 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A focus on designing technologies that allow the "Visualization of things not visible" has been at the center of the presenter's work over the past two decades. The presenter advocates the...
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Innovation In Energy Storage: What I Learned In 3.091 Was All I Needed To Know
June 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In a lecture that could have been titled, Better Education through Chemistry, the author begins with solar energy, grid-level storage, and liquid metal batteries and moves into education...
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Humanistic Approaches To The Graphical Expression Of Interpretation
May 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It is in sharp contrast to a period of enlightenment and empirical science that a re-humanization of digital activities may now take place, says the author. Humanistic approaches are the motif...
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Capitalism 3.0: An Institutional Revolution In The Making
June 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The author points to what he calls a "Blind spot" in contemporary leadership research: the organization and management of attention. The author argues that there are different kinds of awareness...
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Shaped By Booms And Busts: How The Economy Impacts CEO Management Style
June 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
If you read the press or talk to practitioners, according to the author, the worst thing for an entrepreneur [is] to be one who grew up in a boom time. These entrepreneurs never learn to manage...
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MIT?s Entrepreneurial Development And Impact Over The Past 50 Years
June 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The author reviews the effects of entrepreneurship within MIT and the relation of MIT entrepreneurship to larger communities. The webcast polled MIT alumni about companies they had started or...
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Denialism: Media In The Age Of Disinformation
April 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
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...
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Transportation, The Built Environment And Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Developing Cities
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It seems that income and travel are inextricably linked. As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint increases. Global population is projected to increase by nearly 2 billion...
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The Interaction Between Poverty, Growth And Democracy
May 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The presenter has remained a passionate advocate of reform since departing the presidency of Peru in 2006. In his home country, the presenter embodied the possibility of transformation, having...
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Civics In Difficult Places
April 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Moderator wonders if these new digital forms are fundamentally liberating, providing users access to public spaces they might otherwise be denied. Moderator pursues this line of inquiry in a...
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From Relief To Reconstruction ? Practical And Policy Challenge
April 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As the United Nations and worldwide NGOs face the challenges of providing basic services to the survivors of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake, the author scrutinizes what will ultimately be...
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Giving Back: Finding The Best Way To Make A Difference
April 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The world's most intractable problems might be cracked if more of the "Brightest minds" could be tempted to work on them, asserts Bill Gates. Too many graduates of top universities like MIT find...
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition And Digital Technologies
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the author makes the deliberately provocative case for a Gutenberg "Parenthesis" - a period marked by the reign of the printing press and isolated from the largely oral culture...
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Transportation In Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
March 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing mobility. Mobility was facilely...
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Modeling Human Mobility
March 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Researchers who wish to study mobility patterns might be reaching for your phone. Increasingly, cell phones are equipped with locational receivers (Global Positioning Systems or GPS) and their...
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Blended Learning Revisited
March 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes by one of the authors. Traditional educational methods...
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Rebuilding Haiti
February 23, 2010, 12:00am PST
The author begins with a view of Haiti's history of "Insecurite", a term used to describe "Cycles of political violence, crime, and economic deterioration that have accompanied periods of...
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Autism: What Do We Know? What Do We Need?
December 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
The author provides the latest medical and scientific views on this complex developmental brain disorder. The formal definition of autism includes three main components: deficits in social...
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Carbon And Energy Efficient Supply Chains
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Consumers will soon be able to quantify the carbon footprint of products they consume, and that could begin to change consumer behavior. The common banana you buy, say organic or not, is probably...
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The Future Of Civic Engagement In A Broadband-Enabled World
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The digital revolution that brought Facebook, Twitter and YouTube could help revive participatory democracy in the U.S., says the author. The author unveils the FCC's plan for providing broadband...
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Deploying Our Gifts For The Betterment Of Humankind: What Would Dr. King Say About Us?
February 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Woven into the fabric of MIT life, says the author, is the "Perpetual striving to be ever better." To this end, the author has been laboring to create a "True culture of inclusion."
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The Culture Beat And New Media
November 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive. Panelists...
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Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally And Walking The Talk
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Why do so many sustainable transportation programs turn out, like the Alice in the Wonderland parable to lead us down unexpected paths? The presenter observes that true sustainable transport...
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The Role Of Information Technology In Improving Transit Systems
September 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This ditty about tram car ticketing made famous by Mark Twain might spring to mind during the author's talk. Technology unimaginable in Twain's day is spurring a global shift in urban transit, the...
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The Economic Meltdown: What Have We Learned, If Anything?
February 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
The U.S. has had more than 70 years to come to terms with the Great Depression, and we really thought we knew how to avoid another one, says the author. "It wasn't supposed to be possible. Then...
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Leadership And Entrepreneurship
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
While their ventures couldn't be more dissimilar - engineering high tech defense gear for soldiers, and running an exclusive online boutique - this entrepreneurs share some common experiences and...
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Contemplative Dimensions Of Human Experience
April 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In a mind-stretching talk covering the history of the planet, development of higher-order consciousness, and East-West religious practices, the author claims that humanity is poised to take its...
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The Tough Get Growing: How To Succeed In A Down Economy
November 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
Stay calm, stick with your vision and business fundamentals, and you'll survive and perhaps even thrive in rough economic times, counsel these entrepreneurial aces. In a conversation with the...
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Liberty By Design
November 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Recalling a lecture he gave at MIT in 2005, the author returns to the questions of the impact of public policy on the way technology is evolving in the Internet space. Instead of viewing it as a...
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Learning To See In The Dark: The Roots Of Ethical Resistance
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this complex narrative documenting paradigm shifts in developmental thinking, the author defines the very capacity of the human nature - to have a voice and to communicate - as the grounds of...
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What?s New At The MIT Center For Future Civic Media?
November 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
The moderator of this webcast presents the Landman Report Card, a tool for helping communities contend with oil and gas companies eager to lease private land for energy drilling. In these deals, a...
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Ethics And Enlightened Leadership
April 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at an inaugural event for a new institute in his name, the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. He tempered his provocative ideas about...
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Education Across Borders: The India Perspective
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Rickshaw drivers in India are frequent victims of tuberculosis after just a few years inhaling traffic fumes. This near-epidemic went unacknowledged until the author demanded a solution. The fix,...
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America~s Leadership In Clean Energy
October 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
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,...
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Risk Allocation for Multi-Agent Systems Using T?¢tonnement
April 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a new market-based distributed planning algorithm for multi-agent systems under uncertainty; called MIRA (Market based Iterative Risk Allocation). In large coordination...
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ATAC: A Manycore Processor With On-Chip Optical Network
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ever since industry has turned to parallelism instead of frequency scaling to improve processor performance, multicore processors have continued to scale to larger and larger numbers of cores....
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Whanaungatanga: Sybil-Proof Routing With Social Networks
September 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Decentralized systems, such as distributed hash tables, are subject to the Sybil attack, in which an adversary creates many false identities to increase its influence. This paper proposes a...
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Understanding and Supporting Directed Content Sharing on the Web
October 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To find interesting, personally relevant web content, the authors often rely on friends and colleagues to pass links along as they encounter them. This paper studies and augments link-sharing via...
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A Unified Operating System for Clouds and Manycore: Fos
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Single chip processors with thousands of cores will be available in the next ten years and clouds of multicore processors afford the operating system designer thousands of cores today....
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Core Count Vs Cache Size for Manycore Architectures in the Cloud
February 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
The number of cores which fit on a single chip is growing at an exponential rate while off-chip main memory bandwidth is growing at a linear rate at best. This core count to off-chip bandwidth...
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SoftCast: Clean-Slate Scalable Wireless Video
February 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
Video broadcast and mobile video challenge the conventional wireless design. In broadcast and mobile scenarios the bit rate supported by the channel differs across receivers and varies quickly...
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CryptDB: A Practical Encrypted Relational DBMS
January 26, 2011, 12:00am PST
CryptDB is a DBMS that provides provable and practical privacy in the face of a compromised database server or curious database administrators. CryptDB works by executing SQL queries over...
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Fleets: Scalable Services in a Factored Operating System
March 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
Current monolithic operating systems are designed for uniprocessor systems, and their architecture reflects this. The rise of multicore and cloud computing is drastically changing the tradeoffs in...
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Collision Helps: Algebraic Collision Recovery for Wireless Erasure Networks
June 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Current medium access control mechanisms are based on collision avoidance and collided packets are discarded. The recent work on ZigZag decoding departs from this approach by recovering the...
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Network Coding for Multi-Resolution Multicast
June 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Multi-resolution codes enable multicast at different rates to different receivers, a setup that is often desirable for graphics or video streaming. The authors propose a simple, distributed,...
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An Algebraic Watchdog for Wireless Network Coding
January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
There have been numerous contributions to secure wireless networks, including key management, secure routing, Byzantine detection, and various protocol designs. The authors focus on Byzantine...
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Eigenplaces: Understanding Ubiquitous Computing Environments Through Aggregate Mobile Phone Usage
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In ubiquitous computing, context is often understood as the product of active inter-device communication, but it can also emerge from the underlying network topology. To understand how this second...
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Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces a new transactional "DataBase-as-a-Service" (DBaaS) called Relational Cloud. A DBaaS promises to move much of the operational burden of provisioning, configuration, scaling,...
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Harnessing Exposed Terminals in Wireless Networks
February 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of CMAP (Conflict MAPs), a system that increases the number of successful concurrent transmissions in a wireless...
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The Future Of The News
November 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
The author predicts a "Good news conversation" with her MIT Museum crowd about the future of news, but all participants end up working very hard to find a silver lining in the dire situation...
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From IT To Cleantech: New Sources Of Innovation
December 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
Imagine a response to oil dependence and climate change that offers people around the world a new and improved version of the car, premised on redesigning infrastructure top to bottom with green...
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Leadership Development
December 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
A trio of graduates from MIT's Technology and Policy Program (TPP) discuss their career paths, bumps and all, and offer guidance to current students. The author feels vindicated in his choice. He...
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Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity Through Leadership-Student Remarks
February 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Two students deliver heartfelt appeals for courage and integrity at the annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast. In the 1940s, one of the author recounts, his grandfather was forced to flee South...
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Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity Through Leadership-Keynote
February 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Two "Sisters" - both university chiefs - celebrate the victory of the first African-American U.S. President, but remind listeners that American institutions have not yet achieved the full measure...
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China~s Development And China-U.S. Relations
February 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the 30 years since China began economic reforms, the presenter recounts, its domestic economy has grown roughly twice as fast as the world economy. Its GDP has expanded from the equivalent of...
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Paint It Black: Avoiding The Financial Beast Of Burden In 2009 And Beyond
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Paint it Black is all about red - the mountain of debt challenging the viability of all the nation's institutions. The author takes a scholarly approach to moderating this detailed discussion of...
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Politics And Popular Culture
February 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
The 2008 presidential campaign may have fused politics and entertainment once and for all. Three panelists and moderator discuss the nature and implications of this convergence. One of the authors...
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Distributed Leadership In The Obama Campaign
March 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author, who cut his teeth on civil rights work and with Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers, describes how the principles and practices he learned around organizing and leadership played out in...
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Values-Based Leadership
March 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
A West Point start, army career, and a disciplined approach to distilling key life experiences have guided the author through his 20 years at Procter & Gamble. McDonald recommends a deliberate...
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Global Media
April 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Just as digital technology has expanded the means of producing media, so has it increased the geographic range new media may travel. Locally generated content can zip around the world in a...
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The Future Of Computing
April 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wielding numerous analogies for his audience of MIT students, the author makes the case that the next generation of computers, not to mention much of the technology in everyday life, will be built...
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The Future Of Science Journalism
April 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors states that science journalism "Is now, and in the decades ahead, absolutely indispensable." As they confront global warming and health pandemics, science reporting must be sustained,...
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U.S.-Iran Relations
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
While Barrack Obama has rejected the Bush administration's harsh stance toward Iran, the authors warn that they're far from the start of fruitful relations, and that achieving real diplomacy will...
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Media In Transition 6: Summary Perspectives
April 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
At the end of the three-day Media in Transition conference, panelists swap impressions and reactions, offering some notional themes for future symposia. The next conference might wish to "Mobilize...
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Financial Services: Prospects For Your Future
September 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In a lively discussion with the authors deconstructs the near collapse of the banking system and points out the multiple factors that have contributed to the financial crisis. Topics in the...
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Entrepreneurship, Government, And Development In Africa
September 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
After centuries of insufferable oppression by colonial powers, bloody independence struggles, and corrupt home-grown regimes, "Africa today is quickly awakening, and determined to mainstream...
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U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning Of A Long Thaw?
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To the dismay of these seasoned Cuba specialists, the Obama administration is not pursuing a rapid thaw in relations with the Castro regime. While there appears no speedy end to 50 years of icy...
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America~s Leadership In Clean Energy
October 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
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,...
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Education Across Borders: The India Perspective
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Rickshaw drivers in India are frequent victims of tuberculosis after just a few years inhaling traffic fumes. This near-epidemic went unacknowledged until the author demanded a solution. The fix,...
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Ethics And Enlightened Leadership
April 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at an inaugural event for a new institute in his name, the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. He tempered his provocative ideas about...
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What?s New At The MIT Center For Future Civic Media?
November 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
The moderator of this webcast presents the Landman Report Card, a tool for helping communities contend with oil and gas companies eager to lease private land for energy drilling. In these deals, a...
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Learning To See In The Dark: The Roots Of Ethical Resistance
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this complex narrative documenting paradigm shifts in developmental thinking, the author defines the very capacity of the human nature - to have a voice and to communicate - as the grounds of...
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Liberty By Design
November 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Recalling a lecture he gave at MIT in 2005, the author returns to the questions of the impact of public policy on the way technology is evolving in the Internet space. Instead of viewing it as a...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Tough Get Growing: How To Succeed In A Down Economy
November 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
Stay calm, stick with your vision and business fundamentals, and you'll survive and perhaps even thrive in rough economic times, counsel these entrepreneurial aces. In a conversation with the...
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