CELEBRATE: The College!

Agenda – February 28, 2019

Welcome

  • Introduction
    Susan S. Silbey, Chair, MIT Faculty; Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology, and Anthropology; Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, MIT Sloan School of Management
    Video
  • Remarks
    L. Rafael Reif, MIT President 
    Video
  • Remarks
    Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts
    Video

Computing: Reflections and the Path Forward

  • Session Chair: W. Eric L. Grimson, MIT Chancellor for Academic Advancement; Bernard M. Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering
    Video
  • Rethinking Friction in Digital Culture
    Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT
    Video
  • Rebooting the Web? Not a Simple Task
    Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering at MIT
    Video
  • Looking Back to Look Forward
    Patrick H. Winston, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT
    Video

Computing at the Crossroads: Intersections of Research and Education

  • Session Chair: Hashim Sarkis, Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning
    Video
  • Innovation in Medical Science and Care through Computing?
    Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor at MIT
    Video
  • Economics, Computation, and Networks
    Asu Ozdaglar, Head, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering
    Video
  • Nature by Design, Design by Nature
    Neri Oxman, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab
  • Digital Matatus: Building Data for Policy Change
    Sarah E. Williams, Homer A. Burnell Career Development Chair of Technology and Urban Planning at MIT
    Video
  • Energy-Efficient AI
    Vivienne Sze, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
    Video
  • Economics and Market Design for Data
    Munther A. Dahleh, Director, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society; William A. Coolidge Professor
    Video
  • Computing and the Financial Ecosystem
    Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management
    Video

Computing for the Marketplace: Entrepreneurship and AI

  • Session Chair: Israel Ruiz, MIT Executive Vice President and Treasurer; Chair of the Board, The Engine
    Video
  • Remarks
    Eric Schmidt, Technical Advisor, Alphabet
    Video
  • Panel Moderator: Katie Rae, CEO and Managing General Partner, The Engine
    Video
  • Jim Breyer, Founder and CEO, Breyer Capital
  • Jocelyn Goldfein, Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners
  • Helen Greiner, Cofounder, iRobot
  • Robert Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT
  • Xiao’ou Tang, Founder, SenseTime; Professor of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Video

Computing the Future: Setting New Directions

  • Session Co-chair: Cynthia Barnhart, MIT Chancellor; Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering
    Video
  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Algorithms David Siegel, Co-chairman of Two Sigma Investments; Founding Advisor, The MIT Quest for Intelligence
    Video
  • The Role of Industry: Academia Collaboration in Computing Diane Greene, Director, Alphabet, SAP, and Stripe
    Video
  • The Human-Machine Partnership Drew Houston, Cofounder and CEO, Dropbox
    Video
  • The Future of Computing and AI John E. Kelly III, Executive Vice President, IBM
    Video
  • Session Co-chair: Antonio Torralba, MIT Director, MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab; Inaugural Director, The MIT Quest for Intelligence; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Video
  • Scaling AI the Human Way Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at MIT
    Video
  • Interpretable AI Dimitris Bertsimas, Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management
    Video
  • Is AI Human-Ready? Aleksander Mądry, Associate Professor of Computer Science at MIT
    Video
  • How AI Changes the Way We Diagnose and Treat Diseases Regina Barzilay, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
    Video
  • From Wearables to Invisibles Dina Katabi, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
    Video

Creating a College: A Conversation

  • Introduction
    Robert B. Millard, Chair, MIT Corporation
    Video
  • Moderator: Becky Quick, Co-anchorwoman, Squawk Box and On the Money
  • Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman; CEO; Cofounder, Blackstone
  • L. Rafael Reif
    Video

How the Enlightenment Ends: A Discussion

  • Dr. Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
  • Thomas L. Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times; Author, Thank You for Being Late
    Video

Computing for the People: Ethics and AI

  • Session Chair: Melissa Nobles, Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Professor of Political Science
    Video
    Conversation Pieces
  • Panel Moderator: Thomas L. Friedman
  • Ursula Burns, Executive Chairman and CEO, VEON, Ltd.
  • Ash Carter, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; former US Secretary of Defense
  • Jennifer Chayes, Technical Fellow and Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England, New York City, and Montreal
  • Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
  • Megan Smith, Founder and CEO, shift7; former US Chief Technology Officer
  • Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
    Video

Closing Remarks

  • Martin A. Schmidt, MIT Provost; Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Video