IAP 2017 Activities by Sponsor - Sloan School of Management

Peter Gloor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none

The Internet is exponentially increasing collective consciousness.  Our capability to instantaneously form global tribes, which share tastes, vocabulary, and mindset, has grown tremendously. Whether it is succeeding in a global organization, promoting a global brand or product, or increasing individual happiness, reading and influencing the collective mind is becoming an essential skill – just look at how far it has brought Donald Trump.

Part I (theory) - Creating the Collective Mind applies social quantum physics to build entanglement through empathy and individual reboot through Heisenberg reflection.  Everybody can become the leader of their own swarm by combining competition and collaboration for the greater cause of the swarm.  It also introduces the concept of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), as well as the Six Honest Signals of Collaboration: central leadership, balanced contribution, rotating leadership, responsiveness, honest sentiment, and shared context.

Part II (lab) - Measuring the Collective Mind is done by analyzing communication archives, e.g. e-mail, skype, Twitter, Wikipedia or Blogs, to build a virtual mirror of individual and organizational communication behavior, and change it for the better. Experiment yourself with the online social media analysis tool Condor.

see www.ickn.org/iap.html

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Peter Gloor, E94-1504D, 617 253-7018, PGLOOR@MIT.EDU

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Creating the Collective Mind

Jan/09

Mon

03:00PM-05:00PM

E94-1531, bring your laptop

This two-hour intro covers the basic ideas of how everybody can shape and create the collective mind on online social media. Become the leader of your swarm by combining competition and collaboration for the greater cause. Covers Socai Quantum Physics, Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs)  and the Six Honest Signals of Collaboration. You can also experiment with our online tools GalaxyScope and Wikitimemachine.

Peter Gloor

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Measuring the Collective Mind

Jan/10

Tue

02:00PM-05:00PM

E94-1531, bring your laptop

 

Measure what the collective mind thinks about yourself, about companies, products, and topics. Using the powerful social media analysis and monitoring tool Condor, you will visualize and analyze your e-mail, skype or Facebook wall, and Tweets, Wikipedia edits, and Weblinks.

Prior to the course install Condor from guardian.galaxyadvisors.com (needs Java and MySQL)

 

Peter Gloor

Abby Berenson, Associate Director, MIT Leadership Center

Jan/23	Mon	09:00AM-05:30PM	Residence Inn, Compton Room
Jan/24	Tue	09:00AM-05:30PM	Residence Inn, Compton Room
Jan/25	Wed	09:00AM-05:30PM	Residence Inn, Compton Room

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

You have 30 seconds to capture your audience’s attention, in the boardroom, in an interview, on a stage, or in any situation. It doesn’t matter how “right” you are, if your audience can’t hear you, you will not be effective and therefore will not have influence and impact.

This highly interactive and experiential one-day workshop hones in on your “secret weapons”, establish your “presence points” and practice specific tools to Master Your Message®.  It provides you with experiences that teach flexibility, how to connect deeply with your identity and values, and how to be present in the moment: a foundational platform of Powerful Presence and Communication, which is an essential prerequisite to high level communications including public speaking. It draws upon cutting edge clinical research and practical experience in the fields of neuroscience, sensory integration, systems theory, coaching, speech/language/voice and leadership. Please join us only if you are prepared to be fully engaged in a variety of exercises with other members of the group. 

Sign up here: https://survey.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3dDQg1sE3MMeDU9

Sponsor(s): MIT Leadership Center, Sloan School of Management
Contact: Abby Berenson, E52-250, 617 324-3794, BERENSON@MIT.EDU

Allen Moulton, Research Scientist

Jan/30	Mon	08:30AM-04:00PM	E51-145
Jan/31	Tue	08:30AM-04:00PM	E51-145
Feb/01	Wed	08:30AM-04:00PM	E51-145
Feb/02	Thu	08:30AM-04:00PM	E51-145
Feb/03	Fri	08:30AM-11:00AM	E51-145

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Being an undergrad junior/senior or grad student

The modern critical infrastructure has been built during the last 20-25 years, but one may still see Windows 3.1 or NT operating on power plants that supply energy for world’s largest cities. However, hackers and malware writers do not wait—they are constantly improving their skills and toolset often at a faster pace.

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) attack various organizations, banks, and industries for stealing trade secrets, causing damages, and interrupting the process flows. Most APTs are often discovered 4-6 years after being deployed. Yes, for 4-6 years, many power plants did not know that their systems were infected. On the other hand, antivirus technologies were not put into the Critical Infrastructure for a long time. Even today, most of the facilities rely on their luck and good karma.

During this activity, we will dive deep into security technologies such as malware detection and mitigation and a variety of penetration tests. We will also discuss interesting cases from our own experience. You will play Capture The Flag (CTF) competition game that requires out-of-box creative thinking—which helps you be ahead of your partners and competitors. The next interactive activity is the KIPS game that is a simulation of a real industrial power plant, providing a series of hands-on challenges of the modern ICS system insecurity. 

More information: https://goo.gl/2LDilf

Sponsored by MIT-(IC)3: Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Allen Moulton, E94-1580, (617) 253-3471, amoulton@MIT.EDU

Catherine Gamon, Director of Student Life, Sloan School of Management

Jan/10	Tue	12:00PM-01:00PM	E62-221
Jan/17	Tue	12:00PM-01:00PM	E62-221
Jan/24	Tue	12:00PM-01:00PM	E51-061
Jan/31	Tue	12:00PM-01:00PM	E51-061

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: none

This four-class series will focus on yoga practices for mindfulness, self-regulation, and stress reduction.  Each class session will include opening and closing centerings/meditation, breathwork, warm-ups, and postures (asanas).  The series is suitable for people at all levels who want a gentle, meditative practice.  Faculty, staff, and students are all welcome to participate.

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Catherine Gamon, E52-122, 617 253-0834, CGAMON@MIT.EDU

Wesley Harrell, Associate Director, Research Computing

Feb/01

Wed

03:00PM-05:00PM

Sloan E52-016 Traini, Bring your laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/30
Limited to 20 participants
Prereq: None

Learn the basics of High Performance Computing here at Sloan! In particular, we will together log into the cluster computer and do some warm-up exercises. Visit the

Sloan Research Computing Group page

to make reservations (strongly encouraged!)

You must have SecureCRT/SecureFX, PuTTY or some other SSH client installed on your laptop before the seminar. (We won't have time to do this during class.) Please go to

IST Secure Software page

for SecureCRT/SecureFX. Contact STSHelp@mit.edu for help in doing this.

If you miss this workshop, don't worry!  There will be more offerings of the same material later in the springtime.

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Steven Finch, E52-028J, 617-715-5676, sfinch@mit.edu

Abby Berenson, Associate Director

Jan/17

Tue

01:00PM-05:00PM

E62-350

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 25 participants

All of us at the MIT Community are here because we hold ourselves to extremely high standards, we dare to move beyond the mediocre, we push boundaries, we start new things, we grow beyond the merely comfortable. And yet at some point, 70% of us feel caught in doubt or low self-worth that make us fall into self-limiting behaviors like procrastination, risk aversion or overwork.

 

In order to help you unleash your highest future potential, in this experiential and dynamic workshop, we want to invite you to play and experiment while you:

Examine what mindsets and beliefs lie behind these self-limiting behaviors 

Learn how to let doubt move you into action  

Take home a toolbox with 10 concrete strategies to put into practice in your every day life. 

 

Please, register here.

 

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management, MIT Leadership Center
Contact: Ingrid Toppelberg, ingrid@kandagrowth.com

Abby Berenson, Associate Director, MIT Leadership Center

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 22 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This IAP workshop models distilled skillsets, toolkits and visioning from art-making practices for effectively arriving at unanticipated outcomes as well as strategic methods for iteration and disruption that can be integrated into corporate and engineering innovation structures. A sequence from rolling up your sleeves for hands-on exercises anchored in drawing to unpacking art giants from Jackson Pollock to David Hockney and unique touring of an art museum, this session practices techniques for challenging assumptions and rethinking observational strategies that directly apply to leadership across fields arriving at solution-oriented results.

 

Objectives:

Learn to see through ‘Making to Think’ strategies that provide transformational leadership

Show how ‘Art, the Verb’ is central to leadership practices across enterprises and levels

Demonstrate that creativity is not the gift of an elite few but a practiced skillset

Demonstrate and practice observational dynamics through art-making

Focus on observing one’s self as key to developing both personal leadership and generating disruptive models

 

Register here:  https://survey.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8jGZDkRsfidcEcd by Monday, January 9th.

Sponsor(s): MIT Leadership Center, Sloan School of Management
Contact: Abby Berenson, E52-254, 617 324-3794, BERENSON@MIT.EDU

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Jan/11

Wed

09:00AM-04:00PM

Stratton: Mezzanine

Day 1

Aithan Shapira, MFA, PhD - Visiting Faculty, SMFA, Elysa Fenenbock - Designer-in-Residence at Google, Inc

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Jan/12

Thu

09:00AM-04:00PM

Stratton: Mezzanine

Day 2

Aithan Shapira, MFA, PhD - Visiting Faculty, SMFA, Elysa Fenenbock - Designer-in-Residence at Google, Inc

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Jan/13

Fri

09:00AM-12:00PM

Stratton: Mezzanine

Day 3 (1/2 day)

Aithan Shapira, MFA, PhD - Visiting Faculty, SMFA, Elysa Fenenbock - Designer-in-Residence at Google, Inc

Jeffrey A. Meldman, Senior Lecturer

Jan/18	Wed	02:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
Jan/20	Fri	02:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
Jan/23	Mon	02:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
Jan/25	Wed	02:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
Jan/27	Fri	02:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
Jan/30	Mon	02:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151
Feb/01	Wed	02:00PM-04:00PM	E51-151

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None

Intensive introduction to the basic provisions of U.S. patent law, emphasizing the requirements for patentability and the process of applying for a patent.  Designed for students in all MIT departments.

Topics include:  Requirements of utility, novelty, and non-obviousness; Eligibility of software, business methods, and genetic material; Applying for a patent, including patent searches and the language of patent claims; New U.S. law of inventor priority; Infringement, defenses, and remedies; Comparing patent protection with the protection of copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks.

Reading materials include key sections of the U.S. patent statute (Title 35, U.S. Code) and related judicial decisions.  All readings and lecture slides will be posted on Stellar. No textbooks or course packs.

Meets with 15.S51, which offers 3 units of G credit.  Students who wish to receive credit should register for 15.S51 and plan to take a comprehensive quiz in the final class meeting on February 1.  (For the benefit of non-credit participants, the MIT community will have access to the 15.S51 website throughout IAP.)

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Jeffrey Meldman, E62-317, 617 253-4932, JMELDMAN@MIT.EDU

Scott Alessandro

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Because of the "big data revolution," there is an ever-increasing need for techniques for analyzing data, developing mathematical models, and using these models to make informed decisions.   To get started in this process, one needs a working knowledge of business analytic software tools.

These four non-credit workshops focus on software tools used in Course 15 classes. The goal of these workshops is to provide students with a baseline knowledge of business analytics software tools that they can use in MIT courses, UROPs involving data analysis, and summer internships or jobs after graduation. 

Sign up is not required, but there is some pre-work that needs to be done (setting up your computer to use R and access Github). See link below for instructions.

To register: http://tinyurl.com/hn2uf3d

Installation instructions and more information: http://tinyurl.com/zgznpw3

Questions?: Scott Alessandro, salessan@mit.edu

Session 1 (Terminal and Github) – Overview on working with the terminal, Github, and an introduction to the R programming language.

Session 2 (Basic Wrangling and Visualization – Introduce basic techniques in data wrangling and visualization in R.

Session 3 (Excel) – Introduce and practice with concrete real life examples on how to use the most important functions and shortcuts in Excel. 

Session 4 (JuMP/Julia) – Using Julia and the JuMP package, we will model and solve optimization problems that arise in a variety of contexts throughout analytics and operations.

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Scott Alessandro, E52-150, 617 253-6296, SALESSAN@MIT.EDU

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Sessions

Jan/23	Mon	01:00PM-04:00PM	E62-250, Bring your laptop. Complete pre-work
Jan/24	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	E62-250, Bring your laptop
Jan/26	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	E62-250, Bring your laptop
Jan/27	Fri	01:00PM-04:00PM	E51-085, Bring your laptop

Session 1 (Terminal and Github) - Monday, January 23, 1-4 pm, E62-250. Instructor: Brad Sturt

Session 2 (Basic Wrangling and Visualization) - Tuesday, January 24, 1-4 pm, E62-250. Instructor: Steven Morse 

Session 3 (Excel) - Thursday, January 26, 1-4 pm, E62-250. Instructor: Charles Thraves 

Session 4 (JuMP/Julia) - Friday, January 27, 1-4 pm, E51-085. Instructor: Joey Hutchette

Joseph Weber, Professor of Accounting

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This course intends to expose students to a broad range of tax issues students will encounter shortly after graduation as an entrepreneur or an employee. For a new employee, taxes are an important consideration in decisions regarding deductions and retirement savings (through employee and employer contributions such as 401k's IRAs, etc). Taxes also feature prominently in decisions with respect to stock option-based compensation. Also, tax related issues for U.S. taxpayers working overseas will be addressed. For the entrepreneur, taxes also influence a new business venture's choice of entity: Corporation, LLC, Partnership, Sole Proprietorship. Instructor: Howard Mandelcorn is a partner at the Hutchings Barsamian Mandelcorn LLP law firm in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Joseph Weber, E62-664, (617) 253-4310, jpweber@mi.edu

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Jan/25	Wed	01:00PM-04:00PM	E51-145
Jan/26	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	E51-145

Howard Mandelcorn - LL.M., Joseph Weber - Professor of Accounting

Dr John F. Carrier, Sloan School of Management

Jan/25

Wed

02:00PM-03:00PM

66-110, bring a story and photo from your lab

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

 Would you like to reduce your lab's output by 10%, 20%, or even as much as 50%?

Then Optimally Dismal Laboratory is a must attend event for you!

 

In this session, we provide an optimal approach for disrupting productivity, reducing safey, and dampening morale for your laboratory. We will explain the rationale behind these techniques through the systems and psychological studies of several notable MIT faculty, including Jay Forrester, John DC Little, Ed Schein, Douglas McGregor, and Kurt Lewin.  

Finally, we will show some "best practices" from several MIT labs. Also, feel free to submit photos of your lab's best productivity-disrupting activities for inclusion in the talk.

Finally, we'll issue a "playbook" for implementing it in your lab.

Common Questions

Q: I am worried about the impact on my colleagues' productivity.

A: No need to worry. It will reduce their productivity as well.

Q: Could these techniques be used in reverse to improve productivity, safety, and morale?

A: Yes, but that would require a modicum of consideration and self-discipline.

Q: Will I regret not attending?

A: Most likely, but if you don't come, you'll never know.

 

Help make MIT less un-Great again!

 

 

 

 

Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering, Sloan School of Management, Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: John Carrier, JFCARRIE@MIT.EDU