Issues in Technology and Policy Seminar Series
Renee Robins
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Many policy issues involve the application, commercialization, and control of technologies. This annual seminar series explores selected issues in technology and policy, including the impacts of emerging technologies; sustainable development, employment and the environment; and the complex enterprises that develop and operate large technological systems. Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/tpp
Contact: Renee Robins, E40-381, x3-7662, rrobins@mit.edu
Assessing Implications of Emerging Technologies: Looking Back to Look Ahead
Kenneth Oye, Prof. of Political Science and Engineering Syst
New technologies, their potential applications, and their societal implications are seldom accurately predicted, yet investment choices and regulatory decisions must be made. This seminar will focus on two retrospective cases (GPS and the laser) and two current emerging technologies (synthetic biology and Internet II) to illustrate issues of risks/benefits, protocols and standards, intellectual property, and regulation.
Tue Jan 9, 12-01:30pm, E51-149
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Tue Jan 16, 12-01:30pm, E51-149
Issues in Lean Enterprise Architecting and Transformation
Prof. Deborah Nightingale, Director, Lean Aerospace Initiati
With the growing complexity of technological systems, we see a corresponding increase in the complexity of the enterprises that develop and operate such systems. This seminar will present a broad view of enterprises as systems in themselves, and discuss lean principles and the evolution of enterprise architecting and transformation to include elements such as policies, knowledge, and underlying enabling infrastructure.
Tue Jan 23, 12-01:30pm, E51-149
Pathways to Sustainable Development: Co-optimizing Competitiveness, Employment and Environment
Nicholas Ashford, Professor of Technology and Policy
Approaches for encouraging sustainable industrial transformations must be focused simultaneously on co-optimizing improvements in competitiveness, environment, and employment in an integrated manner. This seminar will address mechanisms to accomplish this including government regulation and private sector incentives that open the policy agenda beyond strictly environmental concerns.
Tue Jan 30, 12-01:30pm, E51-149
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Protocols and Standards for Emerging Technologies: Issues in Synthetic Biology and Internet II
Ken Oye, Merritt Roe Smith, Dave Clark, Tom Knight
Thu Feb 1, 10:15am-12:45pm, Bartos Theater, PLEASE NOTE NEW STARTING TIME
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Advance readings will be posted on http://poet.mit.edu.
Many emerging technologies present a challenging set of technical design choices that call for standards and usage protocols, whether for regulatory purposes or to optimize product interoperability. This seminar will explore these issues, with speakers focusing on two current technologies (Internet and Synthetic Biology) as well as a retrospective examination of past cases. Issues addressed will include:
o What is being standardized and protocol-ized? (Future Internet-IP addressing conventions, packet header content, BGP, etc. SynBio-Standards for couplings of parts, measures of performance, typologies for classification of biological parts).
o What institutions and processes are and should be involved in the selection of standards and protocols? How do perceptions of uncertainty and implications affect the process?
Web: http://poet.mit.edu for the full agenda and advance readings.
Contact: Renee Robins, E40-381, x3-7662, rrobins@mit.edu
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