Wednesday,
November 9, 2011
10-11 am
• Porter Hall 223D
A
Conversation with Congresswomen Beverly Byron and Sue Kelly
Sue Kelly holds the
distinction as being the only florist ever elected to the U.S. Congress. Her
ability to balance family and work while still pursuing her passions paid off.
She served the state of New York and its Nineteenth Congressional District for
12 years from 1995 to 2007 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Sue
received her B.A. from Denison University in 1958 and an M.A. from Sarah
Lawrence in 1985. She hasworked in various health-related fields, including
serving as a biomedical researcher at the Boston City Hospital and New England
Institute for Medical Research, a patient advocate in the emergency room of St.
Luke's Hospital in New York, and a certified New York ombudsman for nursing
homes. She was an adjunct professor for the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy
at Sarah Lawrence College.
Beverly
Byron of Frederick was western Maryland's representative to Congress
from1978 to 1992, elected to seven consecutive terms.
Rep.
Byron served as a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, where
she was elected sub-committee chairman having oversight of 42% of the Defense
Department's budget. She was a member of the Interior and Insular Affairs
Committee, and the Select Committee for Aging. From 1983-86, Mrs. Byron chaired
the House Special Panel on Arms Control and Disarmament. In 1987, she was
elected Chairman of the Military Personnel and Compensation subcommittee,
becoming the first woman chosen for a prominent leadership role on the Armed
Services Committee. In her oversight, she presided over policy issues that,
with the dismantling of the Warsaw Pact and the stunning changes in the Soviet
Union, reshaped the American military.
Come hear
the former Congresswomen discuss their time spent in Congress!
Sponsored
by the Center for International Relations and Politics
Thursday,
November 10, 2011
12:15-1:20pm
• Hamburg Hall 1000
An
Alternate Convocation
Stacey
Monk: An Epic Tale
CMU
alumna & Epic Change founder Stacey Monk, whose work has appeared in
Mashable, the Huffington Post, Forbes.com, the Chronicle of Philanthropy and
more, will share the story of her unique partnership and friendship with
"Mama Lucy" Kamptoni, a Tanzanian woman who once sold chickens as the
seed money to start a school in her village. Together, the pair has harnessed
the power of social media to rally thousands of investors across the globe to
build a locally-led school in Arusha, Tanzania that now servesover 500
children. The panel will include two recent graduates of their seventh grade
class, Leah and Gideon, children who were called the "twitterkids of
tanzania" in the Huffington Post, and who will be leaving their country
for the first time to participate in this talk and others scheduled across the
US. Don't miss this rare glimpse into a successful partnership between women social
innovators from the US and Africa, and to witness their impact first-hand by
meeting the children they serve.
Thursday,
November 10, 2011
3:30 pm -
Reception outside the Auditorium
4:00 pm - Lecture
4:00 pm - Lecture
Rashid
Auditorium, Gates & Hillman 4401
KATAYANAGI
PRIZE FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
Award Presentation and Lecture
Award Presentation and Lecture
Please
join us as we honor and recognize...
Barbara
Liskov, Institute Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer
Science, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
The Power
of Abstraction
Abstraction
is at the center of much work in Computer Science. It encompasses finding the
right interface for a system as well as finding an effective design for a
system implementation. Furthermore, abstraction is the basis for program
construction, allowing programs to be built in a modular fashion. This talk
will discuss how the abstraction mechanisms we use today came to be, how they
are supported in programming languages, and some possible areas for future
research.
Barbara
Liskov is an Institute Professor at MIT and also Associate Provost for
Faculty Equity. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM.
She received the ACM Turing Award in 2009, the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Language
Achievement Award in 2008, the IEEE Von Neumann medal in 2004, a lifetime
achievement award from the Society of Women Engineers in 1996, and in 2003 was
named one of the 50 most important women in science by Discover Magazine. Her
research interests include distributed systems, replication algorithms to
provide fault-tolerance, programming methodology, and programming languages.
Her current research projects include Byzantine-fault-tolerant storage systems
and online storage systems that provide confidentiality and integrity for the
stored information.
***
The
Katayanagi Prizes honor the best and the brightest in the field of computer
science and are presented annually by Carnegie Mellon University in cooperation
with the Tokyo University of Technology (TUT). The prizes are endowed with a
gift from Japanese entrepreneur and education advocate Mr. Koh Katayanagi, who
founded TUT andseveral other technical institutions in Japan over the last six
decades.
Thursday,
November 10, 2011
CENTER
FOR THE ARTS IN SOCIETY
"Political Expressionism" and Other Fallacies of Political Art
"Political Expressionism" and Other Fallacies of Political Art
Stephen
Duncombe and Steve Lambert, directors of the new Center for
the Artistic Activism
4:30 pm •
Porter Hall 100
Stephen
Duncombe is an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the
Department of Media, Culture and Communications of New York, where he teaches
the history and politics of media. Steve Lambert was a Senior Fellow at
New York's Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology from 2006-2010, developed and
leads workshops for Creative Capital Foundation, and is faculty at the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Many artists want to create work that has a social impact. Unfortunately most artists don't learn how to do this. Drawing upon their own artistic and activist practice, their ongoing research project interviewing activist artists, and drawing from contemporary examples, Duncombe and Lambert will lay out common fallacies held by the "political artist." They still believe, however, that thinking, acting, and creating artistically is essential for effective activism, and will present strategies for sidestepping common pitfalls of political art-making and lessons in making political artwork.
Sponsor: Center for the Arts in Society
Co-Sponsors: School of Art; Dean's Office, College of Fine Arts
Many artists want to create work that has a social impact. Unfortunately most artists don't learn how to do this. Drawing upon their own artistic and activist practice, their ongoing research project interviewing activist artists, and drawing from contemporary examples, Duncombe and Lambert will lay out common fallacies held by the "political artist." They still believe, however, that thinking, acting, and creating artistically is essential for effective activism, and will present strategies for sidestepping common pitfalls of political art-making and lessons in making political artwork.
Sponsor: Center for the Arts in Society
Co-Sponsors: School of Art; Dean's Office, College of Fine Arts
Friday,
November 11, 2011
2:30 pm •
Room 152, Posner Hall
The
Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship
Fall Entrepreneurship Workshop: Teaching Techies to Sell
Fall Entrepreneurship Workshop: Teaching Techies to Sell
The
seventh installment of the Fall Entrepreneurship Workshops, Teaching Techies
to Sell, will be lead by Adam Paulisick. Mr. Paulisick is currently
the VP, Business Development, andDigital at Nielsen Catalina Solutions and
maintains an active role in both US and European early stage tech startups as
an adviser. Prior to Nielsen Catalina Solutions, Mr. Paulisick was a first
employee at an ACCEL Partners backed startup, regional executive with The
Nielsen Company's Internet and Mobile divisions in Europe, The Middle East and
Africa, an early employee of a successfully acquired startup (BuzzMetrics, now
NM Incite, a Nielsen McKinsey Joint Venture) and an associate at an early stage
private equity incubator. The key to successfully growing any idea, product
offering or service is the ability to articulate its value in simple and clear
language and while smart people are often exceptional at educating or
evangelizing the concept few have been able to sell. This workshop will focus
on the core elements of selling and driving a concept from pitch to proposal to
close in the least amount of time and energy necessary. First time or hopeful
CEOs, those that have a product buthave no customers or anyone interested in
tuning up their commercial thinking are encouraged to come and hear tips and
tricks illustrated with actual client stories and examples of how they have
worked throughout the entire sales life cycle.
Open to
all students, faculty and staff / Food will be served
Please
RSVP to the Donald H. Jones Center by e-mail: djc@andrew.cmu.edu
Co-Sponsored
by the Tepper School of Business, Don Jones Center & the Entrepreneurship
& Venture Capital Club.
EVC
member sign-up for the 2011-2012 academic year is now open: https://wpweb2.tepper.cmu.edu/studentEvents/signup.asp?id=1373
November 14 - November 18, 2011
The
Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Tuesday,
November 15, 2011
4:30 pm,
Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
THE
HUMANITIES CENTER LECTURES, 2011-2012: Imagining Planetarity
Alien Earth: Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and The Planet
Alien Earth: Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and The Planet
Istvan
Csicsery-Ronay, Professor of English, DePauw University, and a leading authority
on science fiction
The
international popularity of science fiction has made it one of the main
vehicles of the social imagination of our hyper-modernizing, globalizing age.
More than an artistic genre, it has become a way of thinking about things, in
which contemporary concerns are projected into the future and into alien
worlds. Science fiction is a child of the enlightenment, and reflects the
Enlightenment’s drive to subject every supposedly natural category to critical
reason and technological transformation. Science fiction artists were among the
first to imagine theplanet as a single thing, and humanity as a species being.
Through the practice of “world reduction,” science fiction has produced an
enormous variety of inhabited planets and simplified versions of our planet.
Things may have reached a critical tipping point in our own age. Recent science
fiction is engaged with posthumanist thought, which questions everything
previous generations considered natural, including humanity and the earth
itself.
Later in
the month:
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