10 Things Every Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/09 | Thu | 12:30PM-01:30PM | 32-124 |
| Jan/15 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 32-124 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner, and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:
• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
10 Things Every Young Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Brian Mahoney, Esq., Mark Porter '05, Certified Financial Planner
| Jan/09 | Thu | 12:30PM-01:30PM | 32-124 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
10 Things Every Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter '05, certified financial planner, and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:
• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.
Register today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98, 617-252-1143, ebyrne@mit.edu
Alumni Talk with BC Krishna SM 94
BC Krishna SM 94, President and CEO, MineralTree, Inc.
| Jan/07 | Tue | 06:00PM-07:30PM | 32-124 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Modernizing our Payments System: why we have a $100 Billion problem with paper checks, and why it's not going away
In this talk BC will dig into core inefficiencies in our payments system, and shine a light on business payments in particular. Contrary to public perception, business to business payments are made primarily by paper check, and have increased 53% — from 3.9 billion annually to 6.5 billion — in the last 10 years.
Alternatives to paper checks for business payments are generally out of the reach of all except the largest corporations. However, most US businesses are small and medium sized businesses — some 25 million in all — and for these businesses, paper checks are often the only option.
Learn more about how the US payments system works, and what you can do to make it better.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Basics of Copyright and Software Intellectual Property
Daniel Dardani
| Jan/14 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 3-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
Ever wanted to pen a novel or code a video game? Maybe you are an artist or architect? Copyright law affects musicians, photographers, and software developers alike. As such, copyrights offer unique and fun protection for your works of authorship created while at MIT. Join Dan Dardani, Technology Licensing Officer and Coordinator of Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab in an overview of the copyright -- its history, use, and relevance to the MIT Community as a form of intellectual property. We will explore the nature of originality, doctrine of fair use, how copyrights mesh with the digital age, and more. All are welcomed. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KDANIELS@MIT.EDU
Basics of Obtaining a Patent
Howard Silver, MIT Libraries, Jack Turner, Technology Licensing Office
| Jan/29 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
Limited to 60 participants
Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents. This popular session covers a bit of patent history and a lot about current practices, processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent; the focus is on the process used at MIT for ideas/inventions developed by the MIT community. A portion of the session is devoted to questions and answers. If you think you will ever invent something, you need to be here.
Please Register for this session.
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Coders, Know Your Rights: A Practical Introduction to Technology and the Law
Andy Sellars, Kate Darling, Kit Walsh, J. Nathan Matias
| Jan/22 | Wed | 02:00PM-05:00PM | Media Lab, E14-525 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 40 participants
Prereq: None
Whether you're a hacktivist, a startup person, a data security researcher, or just trying to make something cool online, legal questions and concerns can often scare away coders from new and exciting projects. Knowledge is power when it comes to online legal issues, and to help empower coders we've gathered a group of technology and legal fellows from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard to help you issue-spot your own projects and help you lower your legal risk (while still being awesome).
Topics will include:
- Hacking, scraping, crawling, and the law
- The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act - the federal law that regulates computer hacking
- Data privacy law (and its relationship to university IRBs)
- Copyright, trademark, defamation, and other content liability issues
- Hosting user content online - best practices, safe harbors, and other issues
- Best practices tips from experts who have bumped into these issues before
Contact: Kate Darling, E15-350, KDARLING@MIT.EDU
Compensation and your start-up: How do founders get paid?
John Akula, Charlie Johnson
| Jan/30 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E51-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Compensation for the founders and early employees of start-up companies raises a variety of complex business and legal issues. Early decisions are often made at a time when the young venture’s future is uncertain and its resources are scarce. Access to legal advice may be limited, and key participants may have expertise that is technology-focused rather than business-focused. Yet there are many questions that must be addressed. How should the equity be allocated amongst the founders, board members and early hires? How much equity should be rewarded for being the “idea” founder vs. the “implementing” founders? How should vesting work? How can early employees be paid with stock? What are the tax consequences? Are compensation issues different for a corporation vs. a limited liability company? This workshop will address these critical compensation issues as well as questions raised by the participants.
Charlie Johnson is a partner at the Boston law firm of Choate Hall & Stewart. He has had broad experience in advising both young companies and their investors, and has been a frequent guest lecturer in the law courses at MIT Sloan. John Akula has primary responsibility for the law curriculum at MIT Sloan.
*All participants should feel free to leave at 4pm, but if you would like more information on any topic, the faculty will be available until 5pm.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: John Akula, E62-316, (617) 452-3619, jakula@mit.edu
Cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology
Everardo Ruiz SM '00, Intellectual Ventures, Col. Robert Banks
| Jan/29 | Wed | 01:30PM-03:30PM | E62-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
The tools for Cybersecurity are shifting from Protection and Detection toward Tolerance and Survivability. As Malware numbers, attacks, cost, and time-to-fix all explode, it has become clear that advances in Cybersecurity technology have outpaced similar advances in People and current Processes. Should we move beyond isolated patch fixes and automated islands towards fail safe protection? Can we align dependent circles...and what can we do till then? Is this simply a technology discussion? The presentation was based on several decades of industry, telecom, and government perspectives.
Register today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Employment Regulations for F-1 Students
Janka Moss, International Student Advisor
| Jan/27 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 5-134 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This seminar will focus on on/off campus work and employment for practical training allowed by current immigration regulations for F-1 visa holders.
Sponsor(s): International Students Office
Contact: Antoinette Browne, 5-133, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu
Fair Use & E-Reserves
Molly McInerney, DOT Liaison and Course Support Librarian
| Jan/22 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Advance sign-up required. Register at http://libcal.mit.edu/events
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 20 participants
Are you teaching or supporting a class this spring and want to learn more about copyright and electronic reserves on Stellar?
We’ll give you an overview of the latest understanding of US copyright law’s fair use provisions as it applies to materials posted to course management systems like Stellar. We’ll discuss the federal ruling on the Georgia State University e-reserves case and the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. Then we’ll share best practices for posting to Stellar, and how the Libraries can help with your e-reserves.
Staff from the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing and Course Reserves Team will be available to answer questions.
Please register for this class.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Molly McInerney, 10-428G, 617 253-1837, mcinerne@mit.edu
Fair Use & Images: Quiz Tool Beta Test
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing
| Jan/30 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Test the Libraries' new fair use quiz in its 'beta' version and, if you are one of the first 10 undergraduate or graduate students to register, get an Amazon gift certificate for providing feedback. There will also be a drawing for two other Amazon gift certificates.
The quiz is brief -- just a few questions. It is intended to shed light on some key concepts regarding use of other people's images under US copyright law's fair use provisions, and related legal issues about use of images on your website, blog, or social media.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
It's your technology -- Can you still patent it?
John Akula, James Lampert
| Jan/23 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E62-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
A key question for many businesses, and especially start-ups, is: Can we patent our key technology? For several decades, what life-science and computer technologies could be patented generally expanded. That expansion strengthened patent-based business models, and was critical to many software and biotech developments, including, for example, proprietary financial and business methods, genetics and personalized medicine. In the last few years, the US Supreme Court has reversed that trend. Where this will take us is not yet entirely clear. But what may or may not still be patentable is critical to engineers, scientists and managers in both new and old ventures.
All participants should feel free to leave at 4, but if you would like more information on any topic, the faculty will be available until 5.
Jim Lampert was, until his recent retirement, a partner at WilmerHale, one of the top law firms in the nation, and head of their IP practice. John Akula has primary responsibility for the law curriculum at MIT Sloan.
Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: John Akula, E62-316, (617) 452-3619, jakula@mit.edu
J-1 Student Visa Workshop
Aurora Brule, International Student Advisor
| Jan/29 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 5-134 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The International Students Office will present a workshop focusing on employment regulations, medical insurance, and the two-year home residency requirement for J-1 students as outlined by the United States Information Agency.
Sponsor(s): International Students Office
Contact: Antoinette Browne, 5-133, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu
Patent Searching Fundamentals
Howard Silver
| Jan/14 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
| Jan/24 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/24
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
You won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, but you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams. The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding patents.
Please register for one session:
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Patents & Pizza: Careers in Intellectual Property Law (panel)
Lily Zhang, Career Development Specialist
| Jan/16 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-145 |
Enrollment: Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge
Learn from MIT alums working in patent law about careers that let you stay abreast of the newest technologies. By working in the field of intellectual property, you can make a career of patenting, protecting, licensing, and valuing the most recent technological discoveries! Topics discussed will include an overview of intellectual property rights available to inventors, a day-in-the-life of patent attorneys, and a discussion of how intellectual property rights are protected in the realms of academia and industry.
Panelists:
Lita Nelsen, MIT Technology Licensing Office
Kristin Smith, Beyer Law Group
Misha Hill, Bose
Clay Satow, Bose
Pizza for this event is sponsored by Beyer Law Group, LLP. This workshop is open to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and alumni. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge: https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Lily Zhang, 12-170, (617) 253-4733, lilyz@mit.edu
Patents-Past, Present and Future
Dick Schulze
| Jan/14 | Tue | 05:15PM-06:45PM | 1-150 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
Limited to 40 participants
UPOP Mentor Dick Schulze ’67 presents an entertaining look at some amusing – and some technological breakthrough – patents of the past, talks about how to get started on patenting your own breakthrough inventions, and takes a peek at where the U.S. patent system is going in the 21st Century.
From San Francisco, Dick is an MIT graduate in electrical engineering and the University of Chicago law school. He is licensed to practice law in California, Colorado, Nevada, and South Dakota, and before the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following service as an Air Force JAG and as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Howard Turrentine in San Diego, he engaged in a general law practice in San Diego, later specializing in intellectual property. For 19 years he was with Hewlett-Packard Co. and its successor Agilent Technologies as Managing Counsel in Intellectual Property, supervising a staff of company attorneys and legal assistants in California, Colorado, Singapore, and Germany. Following his retirement from Agilent in 2007, he became Of Counsel to Holland & Hart in Reno and Special Counsel to Evergreen Valley Law Group of Bangalore, India. In May 2011 he returned to HP for a brief stint as IP Counsel before retiring in the fall of 2012.
Dick has two grown children and four grandchildren. When not practicing law, he can be found passionately pursuing his second profession as a snowboard instructor at Northstar-at-Tahoe Ski Resort.
To register: http://upop.mit.edu/events/view/?id=608
Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 35-316, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU
Protect your Invention & Turn it Into a Startup!
Christopher Noble
| Jan/15 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 3-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
You've invented something really cool. Now can you protect it and create a company around it? Come and hear Christopher Noble, Technology Licensing Officer of the MIT Technology Licensing Office. Learn How and When to file a patent (and if you need to); how your startup can spin the invention out from MIT and get that coveted “exclusive license”; how MIT’s Technology Licensing Office can help you (and what they want from you); and what your investors are looking for when they ask the question: “Tell me about your IP”. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, KDANIELS@MIT.EDU
Sharing Space in a Regulated Place
Corey Zehngebot, AIA, AICP
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: participants may attend just AM lectures, or lectures + PM workshops.
In this activity, we will look at the physical space implications and regulatory issues surrounding businesses that actively or passively associate with the “sharing economy” (e.g. Airbnb). Shifting urban demographics require a closer investigation into how different space “types” might address the needs of cities going forward. Designed to bring together academics, private businesses, think tanks, and public sector employees, this course is the beginning of a conversation about how residential models might be designed or retrofit concurrent with new zoning and emerging technologies to create broader housing opportunities in a city like Boston.
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Corey Zehngebot, coreyzehngebot@gmail.com
| Jan/13 | Mon | 09:30AM-04:30PM | 9-451 |
Schedules tentative, times may change based on participants; each day to include some AM lecture/discussion, followed by afternoon "workshop" component. Additional info to follow -- contact Corey for details.
Corey Zehngebot, AIA, AICP
| Jan/14 | Tue | 09:30AM-04:30PM | 9-451 |
Schedules tentative, times may change based on participants; each day to include some AM lecture/discussion, followed by afternoon "workshop" component. Additional info to follow -- contact Corey for details.
Corey Zehngebot, AIA, AICP
| Jan/15 | Wed | 09:30AM-04:30PM | 9-451 |
Schedules tentative, times may change based on participants; each day to include some AM lecture/discussion, followed by afternoon "workshop" component. Additional info to follow -- contact Corey for details.
Corey Zehngebot, AIA, AICP
| Jan/16 | Thu | 09:30AM-04:30PM | 9-451 |
Schedules tentative, times may change based on participants; each day to include some AM lecture/discussion, followed by afternoon "workshop" component. Additional info to follow -- contact Corey for details.
Corey Zehngebot, AIA, AICP
| Jan/17 | Fri | 09:30AM-04:30PM | TBA (Media Lab) |
Schedules tentative, times may change based on participants; each day to include some AM lecture/discussion, followed by afternoon "workshop" component. Additional info to follow -- contact Corey for details.
Corey Zehngebot, AIA, AICP
The Ins and Outs of Development Review
Ezra Glenn, Lecturer
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This five-part series will introduce you to an aspect of urban planning that often gets ignored, but can have profound effects on the design and function of our neighborhoods and communities: development review. Each day, we'll meet for a morning session exploring how city planners review, regulate, mitigate, modify, and ultimately approve or deny proposed projects. Cases will be drawn from real-world examples, presented by practitioners who have worked in the field.
Feel free to come to any, or all, of the sessions.
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, 617 253-2024, EGLENN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/27 | Mon | 09:30AM-11:30AM | 9-450A |
Presents a overview of the process of development review, with special attention to the laws of Zoning and Subdivision Regulation. Special guest: George Proakis, Planning Director, City of Somerville.
| Jan/28 | Tue | 09:30AM-11:30AM | 9-450A |
Using draft and final documents from real-world zoning applications, we'll learn how planners read submitted plans for development and work with architects, engineers, and other experts to evaluate, clarify, and improve proposals. Special guest: Ralph Willmer, FAICP, Senior Planner/Project Manager, VHB.
| Jan/29 | Wed | 09:30AM-11:30AM | 9-450A |
Planners do not review plans in isolation: development review is a public process. This session will cover the basics of public involvement, from requirements for notification through more creative tools and techniques to truly engage the neighborhood as active participants in the development process. Special guest: Angus Jennings, principal, Angus Jennings LLC; former Director of Land Use Management, Town of Westford.
| Jan/30 | Thu | 09:30AM-11:30AM | 9-450A |
Development review is not simply about saying "Yea" or "Nay." In reviewing plans for proposed development, planners tweak, modify, and at times radically alter projects to meet public objectives and avoid negative impacts. This session will present and explore the wide range of tools planners use to ensure projects will improve -- and not harm -- existing communities. Special guest: Nick Marantz, DUSP PhD student.
| Jan/31 | Fri | 09:30AM-11:30AM | 9-450A |
The final session of the Development Review series will feature an interactive session facilitated by DUSP PhD student Todd Schenk, exploring how the different aspects of development review come together in practice, as participants take on different roles around a simulated proposal.
Theses@MIT: specifications and copyright issues
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, Mikki Simon MacDonald, Metadata archivist
| Jan/31 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:15PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/30
Prereq: none
This session will cover the required specifications for submitting your thesis, and review some common copyright questions related to theses, including whether you need permission to use certain figures in your thesis, and what is involved when you want to publish parts of your thesis before or after the thesis is submitted.
Offered by Mikki Simon MacDonald from the Institute Archives, who oversees thesis processing, and Ellen Finnie Duranceau, from the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing, who handles copyright and publishing questions for the MIT community.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
Using Images in your work: A look at fair use, open licensing, and copyright
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing
| Jan/10 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:15PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Prereq: none
This session will provide information about how to assess whether use of a particular image requires permission or is “fair use,” how to find images already flagged for reuse, and will touch briefly upon good practices for citing images. Directed at authors of theses, journal articles, blogs, and other scholarly writing.
Presented by Ellen Finnie Duranceau, copyright contact and Program Manager for Scholarly Publishing & Licensing in the MIT Libraries.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
Working After Graduation: Immigration Concerns
Boston Immigration Attorney
| Jan/30 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 10-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
A Boston attorney, specializing in immigration, will present a seminar focusing on rules regulating employment opportunities after graduation for international graduates.
Sponsor(s): International Students Office
Contact: Antoinette Browne, 5-133, x3-3795, ajames@mit.edu
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