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September 24, 2008 (Download PDF) Volume 53, Number 3 TechTalk Wednesday, September 24, 2008 S ERVING THE MIT CO mm UNI T Y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 of the Mass. Ave. Bridge RULERLength : 2,164.8 feet (or 364.4 Smoots ± an ear) SMOOT ANNIVERSARY EVENTS: Oct. 4 Smoot reflects on his measurement Charles River clean up 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. feat as 50th anniversary nears Volunteers from the MIT community and beyond gather at the Kresge Oval for a barbecue lunch before cleaning the shoreline of the Patrick Gillooly Charles River. MIT President Susan Hockfield, Oliver Smoot and other News Office guests will speak at 12:30 p.m. Visit web.mit.edu/smoot/schedule.htm to s his fraternity brothers laid his 5-foot, 7-inch frame end- register. to-end to measure the Massachusetts Avenue bridge one Herb Reed and the Platters Concert 5-6:30 p.m. Anight in October 1958, there was one distinct thought running through Oliver Smoot’s mind. Famed ’50s music group Herb Reed and the Platters play the MIT “It was pretty cold,” he said. Kresge Auditorium at 5 p.m. Pre-show tickets available for $25 online at Smoot ’62 evoked memories recently about the night his web.mit.edu/smoot/platters.htm; tickets at the door (if available) $35. name became a unit of measurement as MIT prepares to cele- brate the 50th anniversary of the quirky MIT Big ’50s Party 6:30-11 p.m. hack. A series of events has been planned The MIT Club of Boston, the Class of 1962 and Lambda Chi See web.mit.edu/ for the weekend of Oct. 4. smoot for more Alpha fraternity sponsor a classic 1950s party at the MIT “Looking at the pictures, I think I Museum. Includes dedication of the “Smoot Stick,” alumni information on the had one sweater and I did have from Logarhythms, MIT’s all male acapella group and Oct. 4 festivities on gloves … but basically we music and food from the ’50s all had on windbreakers Ticket prices: General public $50; MIT Club and you get out in the of Boston member/guest $45; Lambda Chi middle of a bridge and it’s windy,” he said. Alpha fraternity alumnus $45; MIT Class of ’62 “Even if the temperature isn’t that low, it’s member/guest $45. cold out there.” In 1958, as a freshman at MIT and Lambda Chi Alpha pledge, the frater- PHOTO COURTESY OF THE nity pledgemaster hatched the idea to MIT MUSEUM use the shortest — and most scientifi- cally named pledge — to measure the bridge from Boston to Cambridge. Little did they know, however, that their activity would make its way into MIT, Boston and even Google lore. They also underestimated how difficult getting up and down PHOTO / NANCY DUVERGNE 364.4 times (plus or minus an SMITH, ALUMNI ASSOC. ear) would be. Oliver Smoot uPlease see SMOOT, PAGE 7 2 faculty, 2 alumni awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants Winners each get $500,000 in Marin Soljacic ’96, assistant professor week. “It was like a lightening bolt out of turned his attention to the causes of vault of physics, and John Ochsendorf, associate the sky,” he said. “I kept saying, ‘It’s not and buttress failures in French and Spanish unrestricted funds professor of architecture, will each receive possible, it’s just not possible.’” Romanesque churches. $500,000 in “no strings attached” support Ochsendorf, who has been at MIT since He and a group of students recently Anne Trafton over five years from the John D. and Cath- 2002, studies building technology, evaluat- designed England’s Pines Calyx dome, News Office erine T. MacArthur Foundation. ing the soundness of historical structures an energy-efficient structure built from The foundation named 25 new fellows with an eye toward identifying ancient local resources using a tile vaulting system Two MIT faculty members — a physi- on Sept. 23 for “their creativity, originality technologies for use in modern buildings. patented in the 19th century by Spanish cist and a structural engineer who studies and potential to make important contribu- His early studies investigated the architect Rafael Guastavino. architectural history — have won 2008 tions in the future.” construction of hand-woven, fiber-suspen- “In the 21st century, as we’re faced with MacArthur Fellowships, commonly known Ochsendorf, 34, said he has been “walk- sion bridges that spanned deep ravines in climate change and diminishing natural as “genius” grants. ing on air” since getting the news last the Inca Empire. More recently, he has uPlease see MACARTHUR, PAGE 5 PEOPLE RESEARCH CALENDAR Three faculty win NIH awards Tap into the trees State of the Institute Oudenaarden, Ting and Regev have won Pioneer Awards MIT undergraduate and his colleagues find out how a MIT administrators, including President Susan Hock- from the National Institutes of Health. tree could be used to power fire-prevention sensors. field, will address the community at 11 a.m. on Monday. PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 3 PAGE 2 September 24, 2008 u PEOPLE MIT Tech Talk S M T WT Events F S Kagame underscores tech ties in Compton speech � Stephanie Schorow at MIT News Office correspondent Connections between the technology- hungry countries of Africa and the tech- Today savvy MIT community were underscored Thursday, Sept. 18, by the first democrati- • Iraq Reconstruction: Lessons cally elected president of the Republic of Learned. Christopher Kirchhoff, Rwanda and the first African leader to give Lead Writer, SIGIR (Special Inspector MIT’s prestigious Compton lecture. General for Iraq Reconstruction), will Paul Kagame, a former guerrilla leader speak from 12-1:30 p.m. in E38-615. whose forces helped halt the Rwanda genocide of 1994, told a packed crowd • MIT Energy Club Discussion in the Kresge Auditorium that for Africa Series: Solar to Chemical Energy to use its abundant natural resources to Conversions. Yogesh Surendranath will overcome poverty, “We must invest heavily speak from 6-7 p.m. in NW35, Thirsty in new levels of education and especially Ear Pub (in the New Ashdown House, knowledge institutions. This is where we 235 Albany St. Speech will focus on in Africa and Rwanda remain particularly “Solar-To-Fuels: The Importance of vulnerable.” Making Oxygen.” The vast majority of Kagame, a man described by MIT Presi- energy used by mankind is provided in dent Susan Hockfield as “one of Africa’s PHOTO / L. BARRY HETHERINGTON the source of chemical, carbon-based most promising young leaders” and some- fuels. All of this fuel originated from Rwandan President Paul Kagame delivers his Compton lecture on Sept. 18 in Kresge one unafraid of building a country on the Auditorium. biological solar-to-fuels conversion: basis of ideas, drew four standing ovations photosynthesis. Solar energy is the only — two during the introductions before he “The remotest areas of the country, with- he said. Now, the continent is becoming source of sufficient scale to meet future even spoke a word. out electricity, are linked to the (medical) increasingly “relevant” on the world stage: energy demand. Kagame, a soft-spoken man with a system by solar-powered mobile phones,” “Significant foreign investment is coming bespectacled, scholarly demeanor, talked he said. into Africa from Asia, especially China, Thursday, Sept. 25 slowly and deliberately about how science “This illustrates the almost limitless India, as well as the Gulf states.” and technology — particularly mobile ways these technologies can be used to Kagame made a direct appeal for more • MIT/WHOI 40th Anniversary technology — was accelerating economic sidestep our development challenges.” links between MIT and Rwanda. “I invite Symposium. 12:30-5 p.m. in E51. growth in Africa. Still, he added, “this is not enough.” you, MIT community, to be part of over- Symposium to celebrate the 40th He described how the mobile phone was The continent needs to train and retain coming our challenges and turning them anniversary of the establishment of the “leapfrogging” development. Africa is “the knowledge specialists — the “single most into opportunities,” he said. doctoral program between MIT and the world’s fastest-growing mobile telephone challenging task facing Africa,” he said. During a lengthy Q&A, Kagame fielded Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. market” and mobile-phone companies will Kagame said Africans look to places questions on topics such as what other invest $50 billion in the continent in the such as Boston as models because of the mobile technology might be helpful to • The Campaign and the Media. next five years, he said. productive interaction here among “knowl- Africa (he wasn’t sure) and how to encour- John Carroll, Boston University; Ellen Mobile phones have transformed ways edge centers,” business and government. age competent leadership and “good Goodman, Boston Globe; and Tom of doing business, stimulated the economy Boston, he noted, “transformed itself from governance” throughout the region. Rosenstiel, director, Project for Excel- by spinning off smaller retail enterprises a maritime trading port to the knowledge Sloan MBA student Erica Carlisle asked lence in Journalism, will speak from 5-7 and “reduced the barriers” among farmers, economy center that we see today.” how Rwanda would deal with its high p.m. in E15-070. How have American traders and consumers, he said. Africa seeks transformation as well. The birthrate (the country is the densest popu- news media responded to this historic “Africans are using mobile phones to current political stability and growth of lated in Africa). Kagame said education presidential campaign? Is it true, as retrieve savings, transfer funds, make democracy in Rwanda “is in sharp contrast would help to encourage families, which many have suggested, that the influ- payments and access student exam results.” to a decade ago” when it was uncertain have an average of six children, to reduce ence of newspapers and television Even AIDS treatment has been affected: if the country was even “a viable state,” that to half.
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