CELEBRATE: The College!
February 28, 2019
Co-chairs
Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Martin A. Schmidt, MIT Provost; Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
7:30–8:50 am
Registration at Kresge Auditorium,
Building W16
8:50–9:20 am
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
9:20–9:55 am
Computing: Reflections and the Path Forward
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
9:55–10:05 am
Break
10:05–11:00 am
Computing at the Crossroads: Intersections of Research and Education
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
11:00 am–
12:00 pm
Computing for the Marketplace: Entrepreneurship and AI
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
12:00–1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00–1:03 pm
Announcement
The 2019 Solve Global Challenges
Alex Amouyel, Executive Director, Solve
Video
1:03–2:20 pm
Computing the Future: Setting New Directions
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
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
2:20–2:30 pm
Break
3:10–3:40 pm
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
3:40–4:50 pm
Computing for the People: Ethics and AI
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
4:50–5:00 pm
Closing Remarks
Martin A. Schmidt
Video
5:00–7:00 pm
Research and Computing: Student and Postdoc Poster Session and Reception
Co-chairs
Antonio Torralba
Aude Oliva, MIT Executive Director, MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab; Executive Director, The MIT Quest for Intelligence; Principal Research Scientist