Volume 50 – Number 7 Wednesday – November 2, 2005 TechTalk S ERVING T HE M I T C OMMUNITY Researchers map genetic variation Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Har- vard and colleagues published new papers last week that bring scientists closer to their ultimate goal — to grasp the core mechanisms of human biology and disease — by developing a comprehensive catalog of the genetic diversity in the human genome sequence across human populations. The first step toward grasping those core mechanisms was realized in 2001, with the completion of the human genome sequence. The new Broad papers describe both the content PHOTOS / DONNA COVENEY and uses of a comprehensive genomic catalog, known Toast of as HapMap, that maps common human The music of New Orleans was heard around campus DNA sequence variations, enabling as Donald Harrison (at left on sax) and Marva Wright systematic testing of genetic variants put their soul into song at the Bayou Bash on Sunday for their association with disease and night, Oct. 30. Below, members of the Wild Magnolias their place in human evolutionary (in costume) parade across campus, Mardi-Gras style, history. with members of the Stooges . Both groups HapMap gets its name from also performed Sunday at Kresge Auditorium. “haplotypes” — collectively inherited groups of human genet- ic variants that are located physi- cally close to one another in the genome. “Built upon the foundation laid by the human genome sequence, the HapMap is a powerful new tool for exploring the root causes of com- mon diseases. We absolutely require such a resource so that we can develop new and much-needed approaches to understand these diseases, such as diabetes, bipolar disorder, [and] cancer,” said David Altshuler, direc- tor of the Broad’s Program in Medical and Population Genetics and an associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Altshul- er and Peter Donnelly, of the University of Oxford in England, are two of the authors of an Oct. 27 paper in Nature. Diseases run in families, and perhaps half the risk of any given common disease can be explained by genetic differences inherited from one’s parents. Inheritance also plays a role in the different responses people can have to a drug or to an environmental factor. A “map” to discern the range of genetic contributions to common diseases and responses to therapies was proposed 10 years ago. With HapMap, technology has caught up to biomedical research needs. “The data from the HapMap project allows scientists to select the particular DNA variants that provide the greatest information in the most efficient manner, lower-

See HAPMAP Page 6 McGovern celebrates opening its new home Friday The McGovern Institute for Brain in the third-floor atrium of the new com- development of new technologies and humans’ ability to acquire knowledge and Research at MIT will celebrate the formal plex between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The industries. use it effectively. opening of its new home in the brain and community is invited to tune in via a live The theme of the gala celebration is “The McGovern Institute was created cognitive sciences complex this Friday, webcast, at http://web.mit.edu/mcgov- neuroscience and society, a topic of par- at the start of this new century, with a Nov. 4. ern/html/Events_and_Seminars/mcgov- ticular significance to donors Lore Harp mandate to lead the world into a new era As part of the event, Massachusetts ern_opening_webcast.shtml. McGovern and Patrick J. McGovern Jr., of systems neuroscience, the study of Sen. John Kerry, television host and As leaders in their own fields, each MIT Class of 1959. The McGoverns found- brain systems and behavior,” said Profes- author Jane Pauley, Nobel laureate Dr. speaker will bring a unique perspective ed the institute with the largest donation sor Robert Desimone, McGovern’s direc- Eric Kandel and Robert M. Metcalfe (S.B. to the future impact of neuroscience on ever made to MIT in the hopes that neuro- 1968), the inventor of the Ethernet, are all society — ranging from treatments for science research could play a leading role See McGOVERN scheduled to speak to a capacity crowd brain disorders, to education, to the in improving the quality of human life and Page 5 NEWS RESEARCH ARTS

FULLY WIRELESS GETTING CONNECTED GET INVOLVED A new exhibition at the MIT Museum shows MIT’s MIT and Nokia team up to make new advances in A karaoke installation is the centerpiece of an wireless campus in living color. mobile technology. exhibition of Christian Jankowski’s work at the List Page 4 Page 3 Visual Arts Center. EARTHQUAKE VIGIL CHICKEN ENGINEERING Page 7 Students gather to raise funds for the millions left Researchers at Picower explore ways to create N.Y. STORY homeless after the Oct. 8 earthquake in South Asia. transgenic birds — which might help fight avian flu. The work of Media Lab graduate student James Page 5 Page 4 Patten is now on view at the Museum of Modern Art. Page 7 PAGE 2 November 2, 2005 PEOPLE MIT Tech Talk Eric Grimson named head of EECS Professor emeritus

Elizabeth A. Thomson ics and physics from the Uni- Alvin Drake dies at 70 News Office versity of Regina and earned a Sarah H. Wright Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT News Office in 1980. Professor Eric Grimson, a leading expert in computer Grimson succeeds Professor vision, has been named the new head of the Department Rafael Reif, who was named MIT of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. provost earlier this year. Alvin W. Drake, a professor emeritus of electrical engi- “Based upon the recommendation of the Faculty Advi- Boning has been associate neering and computer science who was respected among sory Committee, I am delighted to appoint Eric Grimson director of the MIT Microsys- colleagues and students alike for the vitality of his teach- as the new Department Head,” said Dean of Engineering tems Technology Laborato- ing and the vigor of his research, died of cancer at a hos- Thomas Magnanti in a letter to EECS faculty and admin- ries since 1998. He holds S.B. pice near his Falmouth home on Sunday, Oct. 30. He was istrators Oct. 21. Professors Duane Boning and Srini degrees in both computer sci- 70. Devadas will serve as associate department heads. ence and electrical engineering, Drake, a native of Bayonne, N.J., specialized in decision “With these appointments, we have in place an out- and earned his Ph.D. degree in analysis, applied probability, applications of operations standing leadership team. I very much look forward to electrical engineering and com- Eric Grimson research to public systems and blood and organ banking. working with the team to ensure the continuing vitality puter science in 1991, all from Drake’s best-known MIT course, Probabilistic Systems and strength of the Department,” Magnanti said. MIT. Analysis (6.041), was “legendary,” said Richard Larson, Grimson, the Bernard Gordon Professor of Medical His research focuses on interconnect technology, varia- Mitsui Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering, is currently head of the computer vision tion modeling, control, and environmental issues in semi- and of Engineering Systems. “He taught students to think group of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intel- conductor and MEMS manufacturing. in terms of basic principles, in the MIT way.” ligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research ranges from Devadas’ research interests include computer-aided Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe (S.B. 1968), who image-guided surgery to the construction of an interactive design, computer architecture, hardware validation, net- was a student of Drake’s, called him the “epitome of the anatomy browser. work router hardware, computer security and computa- MIT professor.” With Boning, he has been an associate head of EECS tional biology. He serves as the research director for archi- Drake’s own enthusiasm for the Institute and his devo- since 2004. A Fellow of the American Association for Arti- tecture, systems and networking at CSAIL. tion to the “MIT way” were leavened by his awareness of ficial Intelligence and of the Institute of Electrical and Elec- He received the B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of the toll of competitiveness on self-esteem. tronics Engineers, he has also received the School of Engi- Technology in 1985 and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from the In a 1993 essay, “Notes on Being at a Great, but Greatly neering’s Bose Award for excellence in teaching. University of California at Berkeley in 1986 and 1988, Intimidating Place,” Drake encouraged students and facul- Grimson received a B.Sc. (high honors) in mathemat- respectively. ty not to let others’ brilliance make them feel “less special, less bright or less alive.” Drake himself was willing to take risks, such as launch- ing MIT and the then-fledgling Operations Research Cen- Faculty named ter (ORC) into the analysis of public systems. “This pioneering work led to major research in blood banking, airport operations and urban public safety. It put to professorships MIT ORC on the map of public sector operations research,” Lar- A number of faculty members have been appointed to son said. named professorships. All appointments are for three-year Drake’s particular interests terms and became effective July 1 unless otherwise noted. in operations research included Assistant Professor Nittai Bergman of the Sloan School blood banking systems and of Management has been selected to hold the Class of 1957 public attitudes and decision Career Development Professorship. processes with regard to blood Erik Demaine, associate professor of electrical engi- donation. He served as a direc- neering and computer science, and Kimberly Hamad- tor of the Red Cross Northeast Schifferli, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Regional Blood Program. were selected to be Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Pro- Drake came to MIT as an fessors. The Edgerton Professorships were established in instructor in 1960 and taught 1973 by the MIT Corporation to honor the late Professor continuously, except for service Edgerton and his wife. in the U.S. Army Signal Corps Assistant Professor Andrew D. Endy of biological (1962-1964) and sabbaticals at Alvin W. Drake engineering was named to the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Harvard and Berkeley, until Cabot Career Development Professorship. This is one of his retirement at the end of 1996. He served as associate two chairs established by the Cabots in the fields of engi- director of the Operations Research Center from 1966 to neering and molecular or cellular biology. 1977 and was promoted to full professor in 1973. Assistant Professor Daniel Frey of mechanical engi- He wrote the classic text “Fundamentals of Probabil- neering has been named to the Robert N. Noyce Career ity Theory” (1967) and co-authored “The American Blood Development Professorship. Supply” (1982) with Stan N. Finkelstein, senior research John D.E. Gabrieli, professor of brain and cognitive PHOTO / DONNA COVENEY scientist, Engineering Systems Division, and Harvey M. sciences, was appointed to the Grover Hermann Profes- Sweet reminder Sapolsky, professor of political science. sorship in Health Sciences and Technology, for a five-year In his later years, Drake worked with students in the renewable term. This chair was established in 1977 by the Community Giving volunteer Y-Chie Primo, left, Engineering Systems Division (ESD) and in the Leaders Grover Hermann Foundation. offers a passerby candy and a reminder about for Manufacturing Program (LFM). Scott Hughes, assistant professor of physics, was MIT’s annual Community Giving Campaign outside “As a mentor, teacher and advisor to students in the named to the Class of 1956 Career Development Professor- 77 Mass. Ave. on Monday, Oct. 31. LFM program, he touched students in the same way he ship. The Class of 1956 established this chair in celebration touched me as a student in the 1960s,” said Donald Rosen- of its 25th reunion. The goal of this year’s campaign is $400,000 in con- field, director of the LFM Fellows Program. Hiroshi Ishii, associate professor of media arts and sci- tributions to the MIT Community Service Fund, the In 1991, Drake received the School of Engineering’s ences, and Gareth H. McKinley, professor of mechanical United Way of Massachusetts Bay or to any other Amar Bose Award for excellence in teaching. engineering, have been named to two-year terms as Class nonprofit through MIT’s Other Charities Program. In 1995, Drake was appointed Ford Professor of Engi- of 1960 Fellows. The campaign runs through March. Pledge packets neering. Noel B. Jackson, associate professor of literature, is will be delivered to each community member. The next year, on the eve of his last session teaching the next holder of the Homer A. Burnell Career Develop- 6.041, Drake received a unique honor. Speaking for four ment Professorship. The chair was established from the The campaign will include a winter clothing drive decades of MIT students, the MIT Chorallaries sang an a bequest of Burnell (S.B. 1928) to support a junior faculty (Nov. 14-Dec. 2, 2005), a children’s book fair (Dec. cappella verse they composed for him: member. 19) and a crafts fair (March 16, 2006). “Professor Drake’s retiring, we hate to see him go/He David Jones, assistant professor of science, technology — Sarah H. Wright always has supported us — he’s even come to shows!/ and society, was appointed to the Leo Marx Career Devel- We’ve sung here each and every term and had a lot of opment Professorship in the History and Culture of Science fun/As the official a cappella group of Drake’s 6.041!” and Technology. The professorship honors MIT Professor Drake received four degrees from MIT: the S.B. and Emeritus Leo Marx, who has taught in the STS program for MEMORIAL SERVICE S.M. in 1958, the E.E. in 1961 and the Sc.D. in 1962. many years. Drake married Julie Atwood in 1995. He is survived by Roger Dale Kamm, professor of mechanical engineer- A memorial service for Donald Harleman, MIT Ford his wife; stepson Todd C. Wheelden and his wife, Babette, ing and biological engineering, is the next holder of the Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering, will be of Kents Hill, Maine; two grandsons, Drake and Fenix Germeshausen Professorship for a five-year renewable held Saturday, Nov. 5, at 1 p.m. in the MIT Chapel. Har- Wheelden; and a brother, Jerome, of Somerville, Mass. term. Kenneth Germeshausen and his wife established this leman, a renowned civil engineer whose love for the ocean A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, chair in 1968 “to support MIT’s strong interest in combin- and expertise in water quality and waste treatment ben- Nov. 5, at the Popponesset Inn in Mashpee, Mass. efited urban harbors throughout the world, died of cancer A celebration of life service will be held at a later date. See PROFS on Sept. 28 on Nantucket. For his full obituary, visit web. For fuller text and donation information, visit the News Page 6 mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/obit-harleman.html. Office web site.

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Anne Trafton MIT Tech Talk NEWS November 2, 2005 PAGE 3 MIT, Nokia join to advance mobile computing MIT’s Computer Science and Arti- will make new communication opportu- user interfaces that incorporate speech Research Center Cambridge. Professor ficial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) nities and services available for people and other modalities, new mobile com- Arvind, Johnson Professor of Computer and Nokia Research Center last week around the globe.” puting platforms — including low power Science and Engineering, will be the pro- announced a research collaboration to “For Nokia, this is a fresh approach to hardware platforms and wireless commu- gram manager. advance the state of the art in mobile com- our research collaboration with universi- nication, as well as new software architec- “This is a totally unique kind of collabo- puting and communications technologies. ties,” said Dr. Bob Iannucci, head of Nokia tures. Researchers will also address new ration for both MIT and Nokia,” said Pro- CSAIL and Nokia will establish a new Research Center. “Bringing together the ways of managing information: The use of fessor Rodney Brooks, director of CSAIL. research facility — the Nokia Research collective expertise of MIT and Nokia in Semantic Web technologies — an exten- “Unlike most university-industry alliances, Center Cambridge — near the MIT cam- mobile computing and communications sion of the current Web developed in part where researchers work at their own pace pus, where researchers from MIT and provides a vehicle for rapidly generating at CSAIL and at the Nokia Research Cen- — often at opposite ends of the globe — Nokia will work closely together on a new new concepts and bringing innovations to ter — will enable devices to more intuitive- the joint laboratory with Nokia will bring vision for mobile computing. the marketplace on a large scale.” ly and automatically understand intercon- a dynamic group of scientists into close “Information and communication tech- The collaborative work of the Nokia nected terms, information and services. physical proximity in an open, creative and nologies are becoming ever more critical Research Center Cambridge will center Approximately 20 researchers from dynamic environment.” in all aspects of our personal and profes- on a view of the future where small hand- MIT and 20 researchers from Nokia will The Nokia Research Center Cam- sional lives,” said MIT President Susan held devices such as mobile phones will participate in joint projects under the bridge will be located in Kendall Square Hockfield. “By carrying out long-term become parts of an “ecosystem” of infor- direction of a joint steering committee. Dr. and will begin operations on Jan. 1. Five research in these fields, including novel mation, services, peripherals, sensors and James Hicks from Nokia Research Cen- initial research projects have already been uses of hand-held devices, MIT and Nokia other devices. Research will address new ter has been named director of the Nokia planned. Professor dismissed for research misconduct

MIT announced last week that Luk Van Parijs, an associate professor in biology, has been terminated for research miscon- duct. The university launched an investiga- tion in August of 2004 when members of his research group brought allegations of research misconduct by Van Parijs to the attention of the MIT administration. Dur- ing the course of the investigation, Van Parijs admitted to fabricating and falsify- ing research data in a paper and several manuscripts and grant applications. The investigation found no evidence that his co-authors or the members of his research group were involved in the misconduct or were aware of it when it occurred. “In this case a single individual admit- ted that he fabricated and falsified data,” said Associate Provost and Vice President for Research Alice Gast, who oversees allegations of scientific and academic mis- PHOTO COURTESY / DR. BARBARA O’PRAY conduct at MIT. “We are very concerned Dr. Barbara O’Pray poses aboard the U.S.N.S. Comfort, where she volunteered to help victims of Hurricane Katrina this September. that his actions not cast a shadow over his co-authors or members of his research group, none of whom was involved in the misconduct. MIT doctor gives comfort to hurricane victims “Integrity in research and scholarship is a bedrock principle of MIT. Research Sasha Brown patients a day. Although they spent most ple lost relatives. misconduct violates this principle and MIT News Office of their nights on the ship, O’Pray and her “It was totally devastated,” O’Pray said. takes any allegations of research miscon- fellow volunteers spent a lot of days off The Project HOPE group set up a small duct very seriously,” said Gast. “We acted the boat, helping out as needed in affected clinic for the community. immediately when the allegations were Dr. Barbara O’Pray of MIT Medical had neighborhoods. O’Pray logged a few 24-hour shifts. “I brought to our attention and began a very wanted to work on the peacetime hospital Much of what she saw was shock- was in a small, 325-bed, community hos- thorough and confidential investigation ship the S.S. Hope ever since she was a ing. In one small Vietnamese community pital in Gulfport [Miss.] where we were to determine the extent of the miscon- little girl. in Biloxi, Miss., the mainstay shrimping seeing about triple the number they usu- duct and whether other individuals were “It was something I always wanted to industry was in ruins. Many residents’ ally saw,” said O’Pray. “The doctors were involved.” do,” O’Pray said, though she never got the boats had been lost at sea, and many peo- wiped out.” Van Parijs was placed on leave imme- chance. “Most of the opportunities are so The problems she encountered var- diately after the allegations were reported far away,” she explained. ied. “We didn’t see a lot of acute injuries,” and has had no access to his lab or office When Hurricane Katrina struck the she said, but there were a lot of chemical since then. Gulf Coast, however, there was suddenly a rashes and skin infections from the dirty Van Parijs’ area of research is in the use need for doctors close to home. Although Benefit concert water as well as “routine problems that of short-interference RNA (or RNAi) in the S.S. Hope was retired in 1974, O’Pray had nowhere else to go.” studying disease mechanisms, especially got the chance to serve aboard the this Sunday There were also a number of patients in autoimmune diseases. It can be catego- U.S.N.S. Comfort, one of two naval hospi- suffering post-traumatic stress symp- rized as basic scientific research related to tal ships that have taken its place. MIT students have joined with toms, she said. One patient suffering from normal immune cell function and defects O’Pray used two weeks of her vacation students from four other universi- insomnia had spent five days trapped in in these cells during disease develop- time to provide health care for victims of ties to raise money for the victims his house in New Orleans and three days ment. His work did not involve medical the Aug. 29 hurricane that devastated New of Hurricane Katrina and the Oct. in the Superdome before making it to his treatments. RNAi is an important area Orleans and parts of the Gulf Coast. 8 earthquake in , India and brother’s house in Gulfport. of research, and scientists in the field of “Immediately after Hurricane Katrina Afghanistan with a benefit concert. In some cases, Project HOPE set up RNAi, including many researchers at MIT, struck, I was looking for a way to volun- Two months in the works, the clinics to care for people waiting in line continue to make legitimate and important teer,” O’Pray said. She served in the region concert scheduled for 3-5 p.m. at for help from the Federal Emergency advances, some of which are related to the from Sept. 13 through 29. Walker Memorial on Sunday, Nov. Management Agency or the Red Cross. treatment of such diseases as cancer, dia- The 900-foot-long, 100-foot-wide ship 6, was the brainchild of sophomore Although drinks were available, the wait betes and arthritis. can hold 1,000 hospital beds and has 10 Rany Woo, who worked with mem- could last 10 to 15 hours, and “people were MIT is working in collaboration with operating rooms. At the time O’Pray was bers of Kappa Alpha Theta, Sigma dropping like flies,” said O’Pray. the co-authors and in consultation with the on board, there were 250 beds on the ship. Phi Epsilon and the Society of O’Pray, who is a pediatrician, evaluat- Office of Research Integrity in the Nation- Commissioned in 1958, the S.S. Hope Women Engineers. ed a 10-year-old boy with appendicitis in al Institutes of Health, the federal agency was the world’s first peacetime hospital Student musicians from MIT, the emergency room at Columbia Garden that oversees these investigations, to see ship. Project HOPE (Health Opportunities Harvard University, Berklee Col- Park Hospital in Gulfport who had to be that retractions are published. In cases for People Everywhere), now partnered lege of Music, Wellesley College referred to the ship for surgery because where research involves federal funding, with the U.S. Navy, continues the mission and Brandeis University are sched- there were no local surgeons available. as some of Van Parijs’ work did, federal of providing health education and human- uled to appear. “The next day he was golden,” O’Pray regulations specify how allegations of sci- itarian assistance with two ships as well “This intercollegiate concert said. entific misconduct should be investigated. as land-based training and education pro- shows that through collaboration Although it was difficult for O’Pray to Under MIT’s own policies for such inves- grams on five continents, including North and unification, we can make a dif- spend time away from home and work, the tigations, which follow the federal require- America. ference,” Woo said. experience was well worth it, she said. Following the hurricanes, the Com- — Sasha Brown “This is something I have always want- See MISCONDUCT fort’s emergency room saw about 200 ed to do.” Page 6 PAGE 4 November 2, 2005 NEWS MIT Tech Talk Transgenic technique could lead to flu-resistant birds Creating a strain of avian flu-resistant ens resistant to avian flu, scientists could large amounts of useful pharmaceuticals new DNA more consistently. In 2002, Lois chickens and exploring how canaries learn also engineer chickens to produce high such as insulin, growth hormone and hor- applied this method to mice and rats with to sing are two of many potential uses for a levels of therapeutic protein in their egg mones that increase blood production in a 90 percent success rate. More recently, Picower Institute of Learning and Mem- whites. For example, transgenic chickens patients with cancer, anemia and other lentiviral vectors also have been used to ory researcher’s simple new way to cre- carrying the gene encoding human insulin diseases. generate transgenic pigs and cattle. Their ate transgenic birds. The work will appear could produce high levels of insulin in a In the PNAS paper, the researchers work on birds has a 30 percent to 40 per- this week in the online early edition of the very pure form. reported that they used their method to cent success rate because when the egg Proceedings of the National Academy of Benjamin B. Scott, a graduate student create transgenic quails with a fluores- is laid, it has some 40,000 cells and get- Sciences (PNAS). in the Department of Brain and Cognitive cent marker in their neurons that allowed ting the retroviruses into all the egg cells There are only four known types of Sciences at MIT, and Lois came up with researchers to visualize with fluorescent through the yolk is difficult. animals that learn to communicate vocal- a way to transport genes directly into the microscopy the birds’ axons and den- Lois said that transgenic techniques ly: humans, whales, hummingbirds and genome of egg cells much more effec- drites. will likely not be useful in creating a better songbirds. Hummingbirds do not breed tively than previously possible, creating Traditional methods of injecting DNA chicken for human consumption, because well in captivity and whales have obvious transgenic birds with ease. In addition, the into the nucleus of an embryo result in chickens have already been selectively issues as lab animals, but brain research- transgenes could be activated reliably in only around 1 to 3 percent of cells incor- bred for years to create birds with a lot ers can learn a lot from songbirds such as specific organs, such as brain or muscle porating the new DNA properly. With this of meat on their bones. “The differences finches and canaries because they learn tissue. low rate of DNA delivery, this method can between today’s chickens and wild chick- songs by imitating adults, just as children In addition to the benefits of using still be used to produce transgenic mice, ens are as large as those that separate learn to talk. “Songbirds are a very prac- transgenic bird models to advance devel- but it was not useful for creating trans- poodles and wolves,” Lois said. “If chick- tical animal system to study the genetic opmental biology and neurobiology, genic birds. In 2002, Lois described a new ens had any more muscle mass their legs and neurobiological basis of learning and manipulating the avian genome could method to generate transgenic animals would not hold them up. I really think we communication,” said co-author Carlos E. lead to chickens that do not transmit dis- by taking advantage of the specialized have pushed the body of the chicken close Lois, assistant professor of neuroscience eases to humans; chickens that are resis- molecular machinery of lentiviruses. The to the edge.” at MIT’s Picower Institute. tant to common chicken diseases such as viruses transport DNA into the nucleus This work is supported by the Ellison In addition to creating transgenic chick- tuberculosis; and chickens that produce efficiently in a way that integrates the Medical Foundation Aging Program. Hockfield to give Miller Lecture Sasha Brown News Office

MIT President Susan Hockfield will give a talk on “The University and Its Responsibilities” at the annual Science, Technology and Society-sponsored Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics on Monday, Nov. 7, at 4 p.m. in Kirsch Audito- rium in the Stata Center. A neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain, Hockfield received her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Roch- ester and her Ph.D. in anatomy and neu- roscience from Georgetown University School of Medicine. Prior to being named the Institute’s 16th president in December 2004, she was the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Neurobiology and provost at Yale University. Hockfield will speak on the complex, sometimes contradictory imperatives that universities today face — to be at once local, regional, national and international, and to preserve academic values while engaging with industry, government and society. She will discuss the role of the PHOTO / DONNA COVENEY modern university as well as the special responsibilities faced by educators, stu- Art in progress dents and researchers in the physical sci- Sculptor Mark di Suvero, left, watches as his piece, ‘Aesop’s Fables, II’ (2005) is assembled in front of the Stata Center on ences, the life sciences and technology. Thursday, Oct. 27. An influential figure in American and European art since 1960, Suvero is known for his monumentally scaled The lecture honors the memory of sculptures, constructed primarily from industrial I-beams. This piece is a gift of Vera List, the family of Robert Sanders, MIT ’64, Arthur Miller, an MIT alumnus (S.B. 1945) and is made possible through the generosity of the artist. noted for his work in electronic measure- ment and instrumentation. During World War II, he worked at the Radiation Lab, where he worked for sever- al years. His medical contributions includ- Museum exhibit shows wireless campus never sleeps ed methods to reduce shock hazards in hospital monitoring systems and design- Denise Brehm dence that people on the campus really are The Sidney-Pacific graduate residence ing the first commercial cardiographs that News Office using WiFi nearly 24 hours a day. I suspect hall (NW86) and MIT Sloan (E51) fre- featured adequate patient circuit isolation that MIT today represents the world of the quently tie for most wireless use, accord- from line and ground. future in this regard,” said Ratti. ing to urban studies and planning graduate The talk is free and open to the public. MIT unwired last month when Infor- “Having a fully wireless campus means student Sonya Huang, a member of Ratti’s For more information, call Debbie Mein- mation Services & Technology installed people can be assured of using their research group. “Planning is inherently bresse at x3-4062. the last of 2,800 wireless access points, computers anywhere they go,” said Jer- ahistorical,” said Huang. “What’s interest- making the MIT campus one of the larg- rold Grochow, MIT’s vice president for ing about this project is it gives real-time est geographic entities — about 9.4 million information services and technology. “As information that planners can later use to square feet — served by a single wireless more IP-based devices come into being, I make decisions.” NEWS YOU CAN USE network. think we’ll see a major change in the way Campus denizens can access iSpots Blanket wireless service is reason members of the community interact. And from their laptops on the SENSEable enough to celebrate on a campus where as wireless goes even further, perhaps City Lab web site and can choose to iden- Open enrollment most of the 10,000 students own laptop throughout Cambridge, the concepts of tify their own red spots of wirelessness as The annual benefits open enroll- computers and many work into the not- campus and community will blend even they move from dorm to classroom. While ment period will be held from Mon- so-wee hours of the morning. IS&T and further. With iSpots, we’ll be able to focus most of the maps use anonymous data, a day, Nov. 14, through Friday, Dec. the MIT Museum are commemorating improvements to the wireless grid and few people have already chosen to identify 2. Personal Enrollment Guides will the achievement with an exhibition called begin to anticipate these changes.” Gro- themselves on one of the maps, e.g. Joe be e-mailed to all active benefits- “iSpots,” which features three electronic chow said even the campus playing fields and Dan were logged on at noon on Nov. 1 eligible employees on Nov. 14. The real-time maps of campus wireless use will have wireless service in the next in Building W61. guide summarizes current benefit projected onto large Plexiglas rectangles year. Architecture graduate student Andres coverage and provides instructions that appear to float in the room. The iSpots maps show that wireless Sevtsuk has been one of the primary for making benefits elections. You “Laptops and WiFi are creating a revo- use in the dormitories increases after researchers on the iSpots project. Other will not need to do anything if you lutionary change in the way that people 5:30 p.m., peaks around 10 p.m., then researchers are sophomore Daniel Guti- want to maintain your current level work,” said Carlo Ratti, architect and drops until it plateaus from 2 to 8 a.m. errez, Huang, senior David Lee, graduate of coverage for 2006 unless you director of the SENSEable City Lab in Even at its lowest point, wireless access student Xiongjiu Liao, junior Jia Lou and want to enroll in a Flexible Spend- MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and holds at about one-third of the peak Mark Silis, manager of network and infra- ing Account for 2006. You will be Planning. “iSpots aims to visualize these usage. Business hours (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) structure services for IS&T. able to make your 2006 elections changes by monitoring the traffic on the are the peak time for total wireless use They have logged many hours on online through Employee Self Ser- wireless network and showing how people on campus, with administrative and class- MIT’s WiFi network at all hours to create vice. Watch for more information to move around campus. room buildings starting to increase at iSpots, a project that proves the campus follow in the upcoming weeks. “The maps provide quantitative evi- about 8 a.m. never sleeps. MIT Tech Talk NEWS November 2, 2005 PAGE 5 Earthquake vigil held Sasha Brown ed to rise. News Office On Oct. 9, Paksmit started collecting funds in Lobby 10, and over the following week collected more than $1,000. Paksmit Eighty MIT students stood together on also brought the Pakistan Association of the steps of the Student Center on Thurs- Greater Boston and the Association for day, Oct. 27 in a candlelight vigil to raise the Development of Pakistan together in money for the victims of the Oct. 8 earth- an online collection effort, which raised quake that devastated parts of Pakistan, $150,000 in just 72 hours. Afghanistan and India. Concerned by the lack of attention in Organized by the Pakistani Students at the media, senior Mubarik Imam of Pak- MIT (Paksmit), the vigil was one of many smit has been working to raise awareness taking place on campuses around the about Pakistan and the earthquake. region. Harvard University, Wellesley Col- During the vigil, which was resched- lege, Mount Holyoke College, Tufts Univer- uled from Tuesday, Oct. 25, due to rain, sity, Brandeis University, Boston University, Paksmit showed a video depicting the Rutgers University, Columbia University, beauty of Kashmir and what the people Cornell University, Berklee College, Hamp- were like as well as the “utter devastation shire College, Dartmouth College and New that followed,” said Imam. York University all participated. Candles were available for a suggested PHOTO / DONNA COVENEY More than 80,000 people died and more donation of $2, although many people gave than 3 million were left homeless in Paki- more. More than $750 was raised. Students attend a candlelight vigil on the steps of the Student Center on Oct. 27 to raise stan, the country most devastated by the “We wanted to find a way to bring the money for victims of the earthquake that hit Pakistan, Afghanistan and India earlier this earthquake. Entire villages in the Kashmir campus together,” said Imam. “A lot of month. From left are juniors Nupur Garg of chemical engineering, Tasneem Hussam of civil region and northern Pakistan have been people came up to us afterward to say how and environmental engineering and Saosan Sarwahrdy, who attends Wellesley College. destroyed, and the death toll is still expect- touched they were.” Yo ho ho! Sea chanteys inspire singers

Sasha Brown News Office

It is easy to sing a sea chantey: Just say: “to me way-hey-hey-YAH,” said Lynn Noel, one of the founding members of a group of singers that brings its special brand of maritime history to the MIT Museum each month. “There is an exuberance and enthusi- asm in these songs, like the smell of salt on your face,” Noel said. The sea chantey developed to help coordinate the work on a ship, said David Kessler, program assistant in the MIT Sloan School of Management, who co-pro- duced the program with Noel, an Arling- ton resident. At its heart, the sea chantey is working music, with songs for pumping water from a ship, heaving at a capstan to bring up an anchor and hauling on lines to trim the sails. Hauling chanteys come in two basic types: one for long, slow jobs, called drag chanteys, and one for short, quick jobs called short drag chanteys. “Traditionally, chanteys were mostly sung a cappella, although sometimes there would be a fiddle or banjo,” Kessler said. Both the concertina and melodeon (button accordion) might also have been used as accompaniment. PHOTO / DONNA COVENEY Noel and Kessler, along with MIT alumni Jeff Keller (S.B. 1988) and Michael David Kessler, who works at MIT Sloan School of Management, breaks into song down at the Sailing Pavilion on Friday, Oct. 21. Kessler, Bergman (Ph.D. 1992), brought the chan- who helped launch a series of sea chantey sings, is holding a book of sea chanteys. tey sings to MIT and to Boston this sum- mer. Both San Francisco and New York The sings moved to the museum for ate boats and sailing as much as sailing world. Last month, an MIT graduate stu- City have monthly sings. New York’s is winter but will likely return to the water- itself,” he said. dent who attended a sing performed a Pol- held in the historic South Street Seaport. front when the weather improves. For others, singing the chanteys is an ish chantey. With its history of sailing and rowing, The MIT singers are open to any song opportunity to bring history alive. “It gives In the time before motors, “sailing ves- Boston was ripe for a monthly sing, Noel of the sea, said Kessler. “We’ll sing any us an opportunity to bring the past into the sels were moved by hand and heart,” said and Kessler said. “Boston really deserved song that’s about sailors, ships, fishermen, present,” Noel said. Just last week, a group Noel. These songs keep that memory to have its own sea music community,” dockyard workers or waterside neigh- of 100 singers came together to celebrate alive, celebrating the sea and all the hard said Noel. borhoods. We cover all these under the the bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar, work that went into exploring it. The group first met at the MIT Sailing umbrella ‘maritime songs,’” he said. the famous 1805 sea battle in which Britain’s “The songs are an experiential educa- Pavilion in July and August. Roughly 30 Kessler has been sailing since he was fleet, commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson, tion,” Noel said. “They have a real context chantey singers from all over the state sat a teenager, but said the songs give him a defeated the French under Napoleon. “It is … the songs allow you to travel the world on the dock, near the water. “There is a new appreciation for it. “As I became more a form of living history,” said Noel. without leaving your chair.” degree of authenticity you get when you interested in boats and larger ships, I Although the majority of chanteys at For more information, or to join in, visit are right out on the water singing about became interested in their culture — chan- the Boston sing are in English, the songs launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_ the water,” said Noel. teys are fun and easy, and help me appreci- show up in almost every language in the ChanteySings/. MCGOVERN Continued from Page 1 works and how it can go wrong,” said John had to go to the Athinoula A. Martinos MIT’s new 411,000-square-foot brain Gabrieli, head of the imaging center, an Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massa- and cognitive sciences complex, to be tor. “What sets the McGovern Institute associate member of the McGovern Insti- chusetts General Hospital’s Charlestown dedicated Dec. 2, will be the largest neu- apart is not just a commitment to systems tute, and the Grover Hermann Professor campus. Now, in addition to that comple- roscience center in the world. In addition neuroscience but also the talent and team- in Health Sciences and Technology and mentary facility, faculty and students will to the McGovern Institute, it will house work of 12 world-class scientists. This the Department of Brain and Cognitive have easy access to MIT’s own center, and the MIT Department of Brain and Cogni- is scientific collaboration at the highest Sciences. there are plans to incorporate brain imag- tive Sciences and the Picower Institute for level.” “Brain imaging is the only non-invasive ing into some classes. Learning and Memory. As a bonus, guests at Friday’s celebra- way you can look at the organization of The imaging center was made possible “This state-of-the art building gives us tion will be among the first to tour the new the human brain,” says Nancy Kanwisher, by generous gifts from the Martinos fam- the resources needed for collaboration, as Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center at Investigator at the McGovern Institute ily, the McGoverns and an anonymous well the ability to take full advantage of the the McGovern Institute. and the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor donor. The Harvard-MIT Division of stunning array of new enabling technolo- “The new brain imaging center is the of Cognitive Neuroscience. “It’s the clos- Health Sciences and Technology (HST) gies — brain imaging, genetics, molecular bridge where brain knowledge meets est we can come to these direct measure- program, the Department of Brain and biology and computer modeling,” Desim- human action and behavior, where knowl- ments of the brain in normal human sub- Cognitive Sciences, and MIT’s Office of one said. “Our location at the epicenter of edge from basic neuroscience research jects.” Previously, she says, researchers the Provost contributed significant space, these burgeoning transformations could will be filtered in to how the human brain undertaking human brain imaging studies money and human talent. not be more ideal.” PAGE 6 November 2, 2005 NEWS MIT Tech Talk SHASS professorships announced PROFS Continued from Page 2 Philip S. Khoury, Kenan Sahin Dean of Théorique et Appliquée, and a Ph.D. from Khoury has also announced the appoint- the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social MIT in 1999. She then became a member ment of a member of the faculty of the ing humanitarian advance with technologi- Sciences, has announced the appointment of MIT’s economics faculty. She was the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sci- cal progress.” Germeshausen was a mem- of two faculty members to named profes- Castle Krob Career Development Associ- ences to a Career Development Professor- ber of the MIT Class of 1931 and one of the sorships. ate Professor from 2002 to 2004, and co- ship for a three-year term beginning July 1. founders of EG&G Inc. Associate Professor Esther Duflo will founded the Poverty Action Lab in 2003. Muhamet Yildiz of economics is the Professor Monty Krieger of biology be the inaugural holder of the Abdul Latif A specialist in development econom- Pentti Kouri Career Development Profes- is the next Whitehead Professor for a five- Jameel Professorship in Poverty Allevia- ics who is widely considered the leader sor. Yildiz received his Ph.D. in economic year renewable term. tion and Development Economics. of her generation, Duflo focuses her analysis and policy from Stanford Univer- Ernest J. Moniz, professor of phys- This professorship was recently created research on randomized evaluation, in sity Graduate School of Business in 2000. ics, is the next holder of the Cecil and Ida with a gift from MIT alumnus Mohammed which the impact of anti-poverty programs Appointed in 2000 as assistant professor Green Distinguished Professorship for a Jameel ’78 and named in honor of his late is rigorously evaluated by comparing ran- of economics at MIT, his principal areas five-year renewable term. This chair was father. The professorship is part of a larger domly selected treatment and comparison of research are game theory, microeco- established in 1991 by a generous bequest gift in support of the Poverty Action Lab groups, very much like in medical trials. nomic theory and political economics. from the estate of Ida Green. at MIT. For more information on Jameel’s Duflo has received the Elaine Benett This professorship was established by Christopher Moore, assistant profes- gift, visit web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/ Prize for Research, given once every two a gift from Pentti J. K. Kouri (Ph.D. 1975), sor of brain and cognitive sciences, and gift.html. years to the best young woman in econom- the chairman and co-founder of Kouri Forest White, assistant professor of bio- Duflo received the maitrise in history ics; the Prix du Meilleur Jeune Econo- Capital Group Inc. This professorship is logical engineering, were named to the Mit- and economics from the École Normale miste, awarded yearly by the Cercle des awarded on a rotating basis to nonten- sui Career Development Professorships. Supérieure in Paris, the master’s from Economistes; and the Journal Le Mondée ured economics faculty with outstanding The Mitsui Chairs were established in 1980 Département et Laboratoire d’Economie to the best French economist under 40. records of scholarship. through the generosity of the Mitsui Group, one of the oldest and largest industrial orga- nizations in Japan. Assistant Professor Thomas Peacock of mechanical engineering is the next hold- HAPMAP er of the Atlantic Richfield Career Develop- Continued from Page 1 ment Professorship in Energy Studies. The chair, which was established in 1980 by a ing the costs and increasing the power of grant from the Atlantic Richfield Founda- genetic research,” said Mark Daly, assis- tion, was the first endowed chair at MIT tant professor at Massachusetts General specifically designated to support teaching Hospital, and an associate member of and research related to energy. the Broad Institute. Daly led the Boston Assistant Professor Sugata Roychow- team’s statistical and analytical work. dhury of the Sloan School of Management HapMap not only builds on the is the next holder of the Theodore T. Miller 2001 completion of the human genome Career Development Professorship. This sequence, it also advances the massive chair was established by bequest of Miller, effort to characterize and catalog the mil- a member of the MIT Class of 1922. lions of individual DNA base variations David Sabatini, assistant professor of (single nucleotide polymorphisms or biology, was appointed to the Howard S. SNPs) across the genome in the human and Linda B. Stern Career Development population. Based on the initial SNP and Professorship. sequence data, the haplotype structure Lawrence Sass, assistant professor of the human genome was recognized as of architecture, is the next Cecil and Ida early as 2001. Broad Institute scientists Green Career Development Professor. IMAGE COURTESY / BROAD INSTITUTE led or contributed significantly to all of This chair was established by the late Cecil these efforts. Any two unrelated people are 99.9 percent identical at the level of DNA sequence. The Green and his wife, who were longtime The HapMap project has also spurred remaining 0.1 percent difference can help explain why one person has distinct physical fea- friends and generous benefactors of MIT. remarkable advances in the technol- tures, is more susceptible to a disease or responds differently to a drug or an environmental Cecil Green was a member of the class of ogy for testing genetic variations in DNA, factor than another person. 1923 and founder of Texas Instruments Inc. making it possible to undertake com- Assistant Professor Thomas Schwartz prehensive studies in large numbers of type, and we can do millions a day. This natural selection on CCR5-32, a genetic of biology will hold the Pfizer-Laubach patient samples at a lower cost. Stacey is the difference between not being able variation in a T-cell receptor that confers Career Development Professorship. The Gabriel, director of the Broad Institute’s to do the studies, and getting them done strong resistance to infection by HIV and Pfizer-Laubach Chair was established by genetic analysis platform, noted, “Several rapidly and well.” that has been implicated in resistance to Pfizer to honor Dr. Gerald D. Laubach, years ago, determining the genotype of The availability of rich “real world” the bubonic plague. MIT alumnus and former president of a single SNP in a patient cost nearly a data in HapMap has also led to the real- “With the benefit of greater genotyp- Pfizer Inc. dollar, and we could do hundreds a day. ization that previous computer models of ing and empirical comparisons from the Charity Scribner, assistant profes- Today, the prices have dropped in many human genetics are simply too limited, HapMap, we were able to show that the sor of foreign languages and literatures, cases to a fraction of a penny per geno- and can even lead to false conclusions pattern of genetic variation seen at CCR5- was appointed to the Class of 1954 Career about the role of genes or genetic loci in 32 does not stand out as exceptional Development Professorship. The Class of different diseases. relative to other loci across the genome 1954 established this chair in celebration of In a paper to be published in the and is consistent with neutral evolution,” its 40th reunion. November issue of Genome Research, said Sabeti, a student at Harvard Medi- Professor Timothy M. Swager of Stephen Schaffner, Altshuler and their cal School and a postdoctoral fellow at chemistry has been selected as a John D. colleagues at the Broad Institute used the Broad Institute. “In fact, the CCR5- MacArthur Professor for a five-year, renew- HapMap’s rich, real world data not only to 32 allele is likely to have arisen more able term. This chair was established in demonstrate the limitations of prior com- than 5,000 years ago, rather than during 1981 by a grant from the John D. and Cath- puter genetic models, but also to provide the last 1,000 years as was previously erine T. MacArthur Foundation. updated models for the use of the entire thought.” Edward Baron Turk, professor of scientific community that more closely Their findings, reported in the Novem- foreign languages and literatures, was approximate the reality of human genetic ber issue of PLoS Biology, show that the appointed to the John E. Burchard Pro- variation. HapMap also gives scientists unprece- fessorship for a five-year renewable term. Although much of the interest in Hap- dented ability to identify novel candidates This chair was established by the Arthur Map focuses on disease genetics, its data for natural selection. J. Conner Trust and named for Burchard are equally powerful in uncovering poten- HapMap data are freely available in (S.B. 1923), the first dean of the School of tial sites of natural selection in the human several public databases, including the Humanities. genome. Pardis Sabeti, Eric Lander and HapMap Data Coordination Center, the Assistant Professor Troy van Voorhis colleagues at the Broad Institute, together NIH-funded National Center for Bio- of chemistry is the next holder of the Paul with Stephen O’Brien and his colleagues technology Information’s SNP database M. Cook Career Development Professor- at the National Cancer Institute, used the (dbSNP) and the JSNP Database in ship. This chair was established with a gen- HapMap to re-examine earlier work on Japan. erous contribution from Cook, who earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1947, to support a junior faculty member with a strong interest in materials and chemical CLASSIFIED ADS sciences. Members of the MIT community may submit 6130, [email protected]. $8.75/hr. one classified ad each issue. Ads can be resub- STUDENT EMPLOYMENT mitted, but not two weeks in a row. Ads should Positions for students with work-study eligibility be 30 words maximum; they will be edited. 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Christian Jankowski, a German-born performance and installation artist, has shown his work in more than 10 countries, but the current exhibition of his work at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center is the first large-scale survey of his work to tour the United States. “Christian Jankowski: Everything Fell Together,” which opened earlier this month and kicked off the List Center’s 20th anniversary season, includes 10 film and video instal- lations as well as 54 photographs. Jankowski often collaborates with others — includ- ing children, magicians, customs officials, artists, thera- pists, psychics and theologians — and his work frequently involves a surprising turn of events and a subtle but engag- ing sense of humor. “The Holy Artwork” (2001) is the piece that garnered Jankowski recognition in the United States when it was shown in the Whitney Biennial in New York City in 2002. In this 15-minute video, Jankowski approaches and collapses at the feet of a televangelist and remains there while the man completes a sermon about art and God. This is typical of Jankowski’s method, which List Cura- tor Bill Arning describes as “looking at various social sys- tems and inserting himself into them in a way that makes you see them anew.” For “Telemistica,” the piece that was his major Euro- pean début at the Venice Biennale in 1999, Jankowski called popular Italian psychics just before the event to ask them advice about the artwork that he was going to make. In “The Matrix Effect” (2000), his first show in the United States (held at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Muse- um of Art in Hartford, Conn.), Jankowski conducted IMAGE COURTESY/ KLOSTERFELDE AND MACCARONE, INC. interviews with such famous artists as Sol LeWitt, Lou- “The Holy Artwork” involves a televangelist in San Antonio. Jankowski pretends to pass out at the preacher’s feet, effec- ise Lawler and Christo, then cast children to re-enact the tively giving the preacher a chance to expound upon artwork and God. interviews, putting the fame of his older colleagues into perspective and hinting at the agelessness of art while also highlighting the awkwardness of “artspeak.” ing Jankowski’s work. Jankowski deals with shame, eat- tion offers a screening of “Beaver Trilogy” on Thursday, The participatory centerpiece of the List exhibition ing habits, animalization, dreams and ambitions, and the Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. in Bartos Theater (E15). This series of is “The Day We Met,” a karaoke installation in which nature of art as it relates to life. The result is imagery that three films is directed by Trent Harris and is a result of an exhibition visitors can choose from a selection of sev- has its own life in the ideas that it engenders. invitation Harris received to film a talent show by an ear- eral thousand songs and perform them to the back- “Christian Jankowski: Everything Fell Together” runs nest small town dreamer from Beaver, Utah. ground of four Korean-produced videos that feature the through Dec. 31. Gallery talks will be held at List on Fri- For more information, call x3-4680. artist. day, Nov. 4 at 6 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. and Sunday, The preacher in “The Holy Artwork” talks about art Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. Lynn Heinemann of the Office of the Arts contributed to as an event, and nothing could be more apt in describ- A film night organized in conjunction with the exhibi- this story. Alumnus wins Artist gathers theater award New Orleans survival stories MIT alumnus Carlos Armesto is one of 24 recipients of the 2005 Princess Grace Displaced from his home in New Awards, given to “aspiring young theater, Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, New dance and film artists in America.” Orleans poet, filmmaker, educator and crit- Armesto graduated in 1997 with ic Kalamu ya Salaam is leading an effort to degrees in chemical engineering and the- record the expe- ater arts. His award includes an appren- riences of scat- ticeship with tered New Orlea- the Ensemble nians during and Studio The- after the devas- atre (EST) in tating storm and New York City, to share these where he is co- stories with the director of the world via the EST-Sloan Proj- Internet. ect. The project Salaam will commissions, discuss his proj- produces and PHOTO / JAMES PATTEN ect and web site promotes plays Ana Maria Cardenas shops with the aid of one of MIT graduate student James on Wednesday, exploring the Patten’s inventions, now on view at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. Kalamu ya Salaam worlds of sci- in Room 4-163. ence and tech- Salaam likens this project to those of nology. Carlos Armesto Student’s work on view at MoMA the 1930s Works Projects Administration, “This is a which collected the stories of those who fast-paced, high-stakes, high-energy the- “When you go shopping, do you and prototypes designed, according to had experienced slavery. ater, where we develop a lot of new work wish you knew more about the com- MoMA’s web site, “to protect body and “We collect the stories of people who with many high-profile artists,” Armesto panies that made the foods you buy?” mind from dangerous or stressful cir- survived a defining moment in American said. Thus begins a tongue-in-cheek cumstances, respond to emergencies, and world history,” Salaam writes on his The Princess Grace Foundation pre- video for the “Swipe ’n’ Gripe,” one of ensure clarity of information, and pro- web site. sented its awards on Wednesday, Oct. a series of “Corporate Fallout Detec- vide a sense of comfort and security.” “Too often when major historic events 26, at a black-tie gala hosted by CNN’s tors,” developed by Media Lab gradu- Patten says his creation is a “com- take place, those who live at the margins Larry King at Manhattan’s Cipriani 42nd ate student James Patten and now pletely real, functioning device” con- of the mainstream are ignored,” Salaam Street. Joining Monaco’s Prince Albert II on view at New York’s Museum of taining a database with information on writes. “We know what the presidents and in bestowing the awards were Bebe Neu- Modern Art as part of an exhibition the ethical and environmental records generals did; we know what the business wirth, Edie Falco, Isabella Rossellini and titled, “SAFE: Design Takes on Risk.” of thousands of companies. leaders and major cultural figures thought; Alan Cumming. Designed for consumers to bring to “For some people, the clicking but do we know anything about the poor, The awards are named in honor of the the grocery store, the device scans sound it makes brings back ominous the disenfranchised, the people of the late Princess Grace of Monaco (formerly bar codes and makes a clicking noise memories of Geiger counters sold to dome, the overpass, as well as those who Grace Kelly), who was known for helping based on the environmental or ethical the public in the Cold War era,” he left the city on Sunday and as of Tuesday aspiring artists achieve their goals. record of the manufacturer, thus con- says. “The hope is that hearing this night had no city to return to?” Since the first grants were awarded in cretizing issues of corporate account- sound, combined with the sight of Salaam, who is living temporarily in 1984, the Princess Grace Foundation has ability and individual choice. someone scrutinizing products in a Nashville, will also read from his past and awarded over $4 million to more than 400 The first major design exhibition at store, will cause people to think about current work about New Orleans and dis- young artists, including Stephen Hillen- MoMA since the museum reopened their buying decisions in a different placement. burg, creator of Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob in November 2004, “SAFE” presents way.” The event is sponsored by the MIT Pro- SquarePants, and Pulitzer Prize-winning more than 300 contemporary products The show runs through Jan. 3. gram in Writing and Humanistic Studies. playwright Tony Kushner. 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Science/ Performance Architecture/ Humanities Terrorism MIT Chapel “Now Playing: Diwali Puja True Diversity Technology Planning Talk by Jessica Concert Photographs Celebration of Diversity work- Stern of the Alan Jabbour, by Joe Diwali, the fes- shop with talk Kennedy School Appalachian Seaward” tival of lights. by Magdalen of Government. Noon. folklorist and fiddler. Exhibit through Nov. 30. 6-7 p.m. MIT Chapel. Hsu-Li. RSVP required. Room E38-615. 253- Noon. MIT Chapel. 253- 24 hours a day. Wiesner 225-8814. 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Room Music Exhibit Reading Special 7529. 2826. Student Art Gallery. 253- 10-105. 253-5440. Interest 7019. “Star Wars “Listen to the “Now Playing: Episode III: Gallery Talk People: The Photographs “Urga: Close Revenge of Talk by Jane Neo-Griot by Joe to Eden (Urga: the Sith” Farver in con- New Orleans Seaward” Territoriya LSC movie. $3. 7 and 10 junction with Business/ Film Sports Featured Project” Reception. 6 p.m. Lubvi)” p.m. showings. Room “Christian Jankowski: Money Event Talk by New Orleans Wiesner Student Art Part of the Suburbia 26-100. 253-3791. Everything Fell Together.” poet, filmmaker and critic Gallery. 253-7019. Goes Global film series. 2 p.m. List Visual Arts Kalamu ya Salaam. 7 6 p.m. Room 3-133. Smashing the Center (E15). 253-4680. p.m. Room 4-163. 253- Writer’s Series: Ceiling 7894. Jonathan Gallery Talk Concert featur- Intercollegiate Lethem Bill Arning, ing Magdalen Benefit “Emerging Talk by Lethem, curator of the Hsu-Li. Raquel Evita Concert for Muslim author of “Motherless List Visual Arts Sidel, a local slam poet, Katrina and Identities in Brooklyn,” which won Center, speaks on the will open. $10, $5 stu- Earthquake Victims Diasporic the National Book Critics List exhibition “Christian dents. 8-10 p.m. Room Performers from MIT, Communities” Circle Award for Fiction. Jankowski: Everything 10-250. 253-5440. Harvard, Wellesley, Film: “A Fond Kiss” (Ken 7 p.m. Room 10-250. Fell Together.” 6 p.m. List Berklee and Brandeis. All Loach, UK, 2004). 7 p.m. 253-7894. Visual Arts Center (E15). proceeds go to Hurricane Room 2-105. 253-4771. 253-4680. Katrina and Pakistan American earthquake relief. $5 Israeli Dancing Folk Fiddle Diwali Nite minimum donation. 3-5 8-11 p.m. Workshop 2005 p.m. Walker Memorial. Lobby 13. 484- Alan Jabbour, Celebration 3267. American folk fiddler. of Festival of 7:30 p.m. Killian Hall. Lights. $21, $18 stu- 258-5629. dents, $12 w/ MIT ID. 7 p.m. Room 50-140.

March of the Ewoks Costume and puppet designer Eleanor Pritchard ’06 hobnobs with a brood of Ewoks from Act VI: Return of the Jedi, part of ‘Star Wars: Musical Edition.’ The MIT Musical Theatre Guild production runs Nov. 11- 13 and Nov. 16-20. Go Online! For complete events listings, see the MIT Events Calendar at: http://events.mit.edu. Go Online! Office of the Arts website at: http://web.mit.edu/arts/office.

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“MACBETH” MCGOVERN ARTHUR MILLER Nov. 3 INSTITUTE OPENS Nov. 4 LECTURE Nov. 7 Shakespeare Ensemble fall Opening and dedication of Talk by President Susan production. $8, $6 students. Kresge the McGovern Institute for Room 46-3201 Hockfield on science and Room 32-123 Little Theater Brain Research, speeches Nov. 3-5. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. ethics. 4-6 p.m. 8 p.m. by Eric Kandel, Robert Metcalfe, Jane Pauley.

MIT EVENT HIGHLIGHTS NOVEMBER 7-13

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY November 7 November 8 November 9 November 10 November 11 November 12 November 13 “Challenges Election Day “Where You MIT Chapel Veteran’s Day “Deep MIT Lecturer for a Mexican Stand Depends Concert MIT Holiday Frontiers: Concert: Recovery” Pastry Sales on Where Alexey Shabalin Ocean “National Talk by Pedro Pastries from You Get Hit: on the violin. “Chungking Engineering at Insecurity II” Aspe Armella. Noon. Chinatown. 10 U.S. and European Noon. MIT Chapel. 253- Express MIT” The second annual mara- Room E51-395. 252- a.m.-5 p.m. Counterterrorism 2826. (Chongqing Latest advances in thon concert of political 1483. Lobby 10. Strategies” Senlin)” underwater research. 9 music by contemporary Talk by Jeremy Shapiro of “The Part of the Suburbia a.m.-8 p.m. Hart Nautical American composers, English Ballad Wulff lecture the Brookings Institution. Power and Goes Global film series. Gallery. 253-5942. including performances Workshop Talk by Noon. Room E38-615. Weakness of Shown in original lan- by Ensemble Newspeak, Brian Peters Professor Ned 253-7529. Randomness in guage with English subti- “iSPOTS: Living the Boston/Tucson duo performs Thomas, direc- Computation” tles. 6 p.m. Room 3-133. and Working in Non-Zero, and Music English ballads. 7:30 p.m. tor of the Institute for Goldman Talk by Professor Avi 258-8438. MIT’s Wireless and Theater Arts Lecturer Killian Hall. 258-5629. Soldier Nanotechnology. Sachs Asia Wigderson of the Institute Campus” Curtis Hughes. 3 p.m. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Room 10- Panel for Advanced Study. 4- “Star Wars: The iSPOTS installa- Killian Hall. 253-2826. Trivia Night 250. 258-5816. Panel of repre- 5:30 p.m. Room 32-123. Musical tion, produced by MIT’s Hosted by Tim sentatives from Goldman 253-8924. Edition” SENSEable City Lab, “Charlie and Graves. Must “Turkey and Sachs in Asia. 7-8:30 MIT Musical documents the MIT wire- the Chocolate be 21+. ID the Armenian p.m. Room 5-234. “Beaver Theatre Guild production less network. Noon-5 Factory” required. 8-11:30 p.m. Question: Are Trilogy” based on the “Star Wars” p.m. $5 adults, $2 stu- LSC Fall 2005 The Thirsty Ear Pub. 258- Recognition Israeli Dancing List Visual Arts trilogy by George Lucas. dents and seniors, free w/ Film Series. $3. 7 p.m. 9754. and Reconciliation 8-11 p.m. Lobby Center Film Nov. 11-13 and 16-20. MIT ID. Ongoing exhibit. Room 26-100. 253-3791. Possible?” 13. 484-3267. Night, presented in con- $12, $9 students, seniors 253-4444. Emile Bustani Middle junction with “Christian and MIT faculty/staff, International East Seminar with Jankowski: Everything $6 MIT students. Most Anime Club Folk Dancing Professor Fatma Muge Fell Together.” 7 p.m. performances 8 p.m., 2 DDR Marathon 8-11 p.m. Gocek. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Bartos Theater. 253- p.m. on Nov. 13 and Nov. Party Lobdell Dining Room E51-095. 253- 4680. 20. Sala de Puerto Rico. Dance-Dance- Hall. 253-FOLK. 8961. 253-6294. Revolution marathon. “Leocadia” Noon-5 p.m. Room 1- Election Day Drama shop 135. Contra Dance production of Music by Apple play by Jean Crisp with caller Anouilh. Nov. 10-12 Tony Saletan. $5, stu- and Nov. 17-19. $8, $6 dents free. 8-10:30 p.m. students. 8 p.m. Kresge Lobby 13. 354-0864. Little Theater. 253-2908.