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April 16, 2008 (Download PDF) Volume 52, Number 23 TechTalk Wednesday, April 16, 2008 S ERVING THE MIT CO mm UNI T Y Institute EARTH DAY 2008 brimming with Leaving energy our mark Experts, industry leaders, students convene at annual MIT class tracks carbon energy conference footprint of different lifestyles; David Chandler News Office finds even the smallest U.S. footprints are relatively large “Scale” was the keyword as hundreds of people gathered this past weekend for the fourth annual MIT Energy Confer- ence. The event, organized entirely by FOCUSING student groups, has evolved “essentially from a standing start to become one of ON ENERGY the premier energy events,” said President PHOTO COURTESY Susan Hockfield at the meeting’s opening. OF NASA While there has been Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will rapidly growing enthu- David Chandler siasm in recent years News Office speak at MIT about a variety on Earth Day. of approaches to PAGE 5 improving the Whether you live in a cardboard box or a luxuri- world’s energy ous mansion, whether you subsist on home- MIT helps to develop systems, “no grown vegetables or wolf down imported matter how bright steaks, whether you’re a jet-setter or a a carbon-neutral many of these new sedentary retiree, anyone who lives community technologies seem, in the U.S. contributes more than in Abu Dhabi. most of them wither twice as much greenhouse gas to PAGE 4-5 around questions of the atmosphere as the global scale,” Hockfield said. average, an MIT class has The magnitude of the estimated. Estimated world’s dependence on fossil fuels, and of The class studied the the problems associated with those fuels, carbon emissions of average for makes it difficult for any new approach to Americans in a wide vari- U.S. resident GRAPHIC / PATRICK GILLOOLY make a significant impact. ety of lifestyles—from A representation of different 20 metric tons Thus, the conference’s title, “Solutions the homeless to multimil- estimated annual carbon that scale to meet the energy challenge,” lionaires, from Buddhist footprints. Government services addressed the often-overlooked heart of the monks to soccer moms— were a major reason for the matter. And while the dozens of talks, panel and compared them to those relatively large U.S. average, discussions and exhibits in the two-day of other nations. The somewhat according to an MIT class led by conference and exhibit acknowledged the disquieting bottom line is that in Professor Timothy Gutowski of daunting nature of the challenge, a sense of the United States, even people mechanical engineering. shining but realistic optimism pervaded the with the lowest energy usage event. account for, on average, more The sheer magnitude of the problems than double the global per-capita can translate into an equally vast oppor- carbon emission. And those emis- Estimate tunity, said John Doerr, a pioneer venture sions rise steeply from that mini- capitalist whose firm bankrolled some of mum as people’s income increases. for U.S. the biggest winners in the computer and “Regardless of income, there is a homeless Internet booms, including Sun, Google, certain floor below which the individual person Compaq and Symantec. In his opening carbon footprint of a person in the U.S. Average keynote address, Doerr predicted that “the will not drop,” says Timothy Gutowski, 8.5 tons for the market for energy technology is larger, professor of mechanical engineering, who world (U.S. maybe 10 times larger,” than the Inter- taught the class that calculated the rates included) net boom that preceded it. “We’re at the of carbon emissions. The results will be beginning of a green technology boom.” presented this May at the IEEE International 4 tons In order to kick-start that process, there Symposium on Electronics and the Environ- is a need for much greater investment in ment in San Francisco. research, he said. Today, the total annual While it may seem surprising that even research and development budget for new people whose lifestyles don’t appear extrava- energy technology is about equal to just gant—the homeless, monks, children—are respon- one day’s profits from a single fossil-energy sible for significant greenhouse gas emissions, uPlease see ENERGY, PAGE 5 uPlease see FOOTPRINT, PAGE 4 PEOPLE RESEARCH NEWS Jacks named AACR president Meet Nexi Sustaining our future Tyler Jacks, director of the David H. Koch Institute The Media Lab’s newest The formation of the MIT-Fraunhofer Center for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, has been robot becomes an Internet for Sustainable Energy Systems is announced during named president of the American Association for star after preliminary video Saturday’s energy conference. Cancer Research. appears on YouTube. PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 2 April 16, 2008 u PEOPLE MIT Tech Talk Jacks named president of American Association for Cancer Research Tyler E. Jacks, director of the David Jacks’ research interests are in research today,” Jacks said. “As Committee. He serves on the editorial H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer the genetic events that contribute the leading cancer research orga- board of Molecular Cancer Therapeu- Research at MIT, has been named pres- to the development of cancer. nization in the world, the AACR tics and was a senior editor of Molecular ident-elect of the American Association His laboratory has engineered plays a vital role in promot- Cancer Research. Jacks has co-chaired for Cancer Research (AACR), the world’s a series of novel mutant mouse ing the flow of information several AACR Special Conferences, was a largest scientific organization dedicated to strains that accurately mimic from these discoveries between co-chair of the 2003 AACR Annual Meet- preventing and curing the deadly disease. human cancer and thus serve as scientists and clinicians which ing and served as faculty for the “Molecu- Jacks, also the David H. Koch Professor animal models for exploring the ultimately impacts on the lives of lar Biology in Oncology” Educational of Biology at MIT and an investigator with cellular pathways regulated by people with cancer.” Workshop. Jacks has also received several the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, cancer-associated genes. Jacks has served in several awards recognizing his scientific accom- took over the position on Monday, April “We are experiencing an Tyler leadership positions for the plishments, including the AACR Award 14, at the AACR Annual Meeting in San unprecedented and truly remark- Jacks AACR, including the Board of for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Diego. able pace of discovery in cancer Directors and the Nominating Research. Memorial service Three MIT planned for Menand A memorial service is planned to faculty named celebrate the life of Louis Menand III, who died at age 85 of complications from cardiac surgery on Jan. 30. Menand Guggenheim was a senior lecturer in MIT’s Political Science department, where he touched the lives of many students and also fellows served as special assistant to the provost Three MIT professors were named under presidents Howard Johnson, Guggenheim fellows for their “stellar Jerome Wiesner and Paul Gray. achievement and exceptional promise for The service will be held on Tuesday, continued accomplishment,” the John April 22, at 3 p.m. in the MIT Chapel. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Parking will be available in the Kresge parking lot, and a reception will imme- announced this month. diately follow the service at McCormick Robert Kanigel, professor of science Hall. writing; Susan S. Silbey, the Department Gifts in memory of Menand may of Anthropology head; and Alexander van be made to Tutoring Plus, a neighbor- Oudenaarden, an associate professor of hood educational organization serving physics, were named as fellows. low-income children in Cambridge that Kanigel’s fellowship will be focused on his Menand helped to found and which upcoming book, set on the Blasket Islands benefitted tremendously from his leader- PHOTO / DONNA COVENEY in the west of Ireland; Silbey’s focus will be ship over the years. Such gifts can be sent on trust and surveillance in the cultures of to: Ellen McLaughlin, Executive Direc- Initiatives at the Institute science; and van Oudenaarden will study stochastic gene expression in development. tor, Tutoring Plus of Cambridge, 225 Gov. Deval Patrick and MIT President Susan Hockfield appear together before Windsor St., Cambridge, MA 02139. The Guggenheim foundation named a the governor unveiled a plan to pump $3.8 billion into the state’s economy as total of 190 fellows at 81 different academic Gifts may also be directed to MIT in a safeguard against worsening economic conditions. Patrick’s speech at the Menand’s memory for the MIT Retirees institutions for 2008. Each fellow receives MIT Sloan School of Management was his first appearance at MIT since being different grants based on need, with more Association Undergraduate Scholarship sworn in as the state’s 71st governor last year. Fund. than $8 million awarded this year for an average grant of $43,200. MIT’s Makan wins prestigious Rome Prize Sarah H. Wright and exploratory, it has required the cal gear. Photographs by 19th News Office composer to develop hieroglyph-like century scientist Etienne-Jules Marey notations for musicians perform- top each column; poem-shaped ing his work. In a saxophone piece, segments of Jena Osman’s libretto MIT professor Keeril Makan, a “Voice Within Voice,” for example, a spill downward like adding machine musician and composer acclaimed for row of jagged markings that look like paper. There are no visible musical his technique of layering recorded and shark’s teeth means “put your teeth on notes. live sounds, has been awarded a pres- the reed and grind.” In addition to the opera, Makan’s tigious Rome Prize by the American But notation is not where the plan for Rome is to complete a work Academy in Rome for 2008-2009.
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