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Recent 2009 Events
Recordings available where noted.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Annual and Stated Meeting - Cambridge
What Is Missing in Medical Thinking
Location: House of the Academy
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Speaker:
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Jerome Groopman, Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School; Chief of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center;
staff writer in medicine and biology, The New Yorker
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Spring Concert - Cambridge
An Evening of Chamber Music
Location: House of the Academy
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Performers::
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Edward Arron, cello
Ronald Arron, viola
Aaron Boyd, violin
Jeewon Park, piano
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
Novel Applications of Nanotechnology
Location: House of the Academy
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Moderator:
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Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Speakers:
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Robert Langer, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (applications in medicine)
Angela Belcher, Germehausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (applications in energy)
Evelyn Hu, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Harvard University (applications in photonics)
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Symposium - Washington, DC
The Humanities in a Civil Society
Location: George Washington University
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Moderator:
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Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer, American Academy
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Speakers:
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Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond
Don Michael Randel, President, The Mellon Foundation
David Souter, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
Patricia Q. Stonesifer, Chairwoman, Smithsonian Institution
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Watch C-SPAN's coverage of this program
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Saturday, February 28 to Sunday, March 1, 2009 - Click for video and audio.
Symposium - Mountain View, CA
The Public Good: The Impact of Information Technology on Society
Location: Google, Microsoft, and Computer History Museum
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Partial List of Speakers:
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C. Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Jonathan Berger, Composer, Associate Professor, and Co-Director of the Institute for Creativity and the Arts, Stanford University
Henry Brady, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc.
David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Joshua Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, Law and Political Science, Stanford University
Dale Dougherty, Editor and Publisher, Make Magazine, O’Reilly Media Inc.
Cynthia Dwork, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Edward Feigenbaum, Kumagai Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford University
Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Charles Geschke, Co-chairman of the Board, Adobe Systems Inc.
Pat Hanrahan, Canon USA Professor, Computer Graphics Laboratory, Stanford University
John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
John Hollar, President and CEO, Computer History Museum
Irwin M. Jacobs, Chairman, Co-Founder, and Former CEO, Qualcomm Inc.
Michael A. Keller, Ida M. Green University Librarian and Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University
Butler Lampson, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Inc.
Edward Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science, and Engineering, University of Washington
Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine
Carl Rosendahl, founder and former President, Pacific Data Images
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Inc.
John E. Warnock, Co-Chairman of the Board and former President and Chief Executive Officer, Adobe Systems
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and Co-Founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Film Screening and Discussion - Cambridge
In Search of Memory
Location: House of the Academy
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Speakers:
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Eric Kandel, University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor and
Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons; Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Petra Seeger, film director
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - Click for audio.
Stated Meeting - Cambridge
After the 2008 Elections: How Will They Govern?
Location: House of the Academy
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Speakers:
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Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow and W. Averell Harriman Chair, Brookings
Institution
Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
for Public Policy Research
David Ellwood, Scott Black Professor of Political Economy and Dean,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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