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The Technology and Culture Forum is a ministry of the
Episcopal Chaplain at MIT, and grows out of the church’s commitment
to peace, justice, and upholding human dignity. Our programs challenge
participants to consider how their work as scientists, engineers, managers,
and citizens furthers these ideals.
During the 1999-2000 academic year, T&C hosted programs on Internet Security, Forging Sustainable Communities, Human Rights Abuses in Colombia, Human Gene Therapy, International Trade and Global Food Supply, the Meaning of Human Identity, Ethics and Business and Re-Inventing Higher Education in the 21st Century.
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Past Forums
[ Forums '08-'09 ]
[ Forums '07-'08 ]
[ Forums '06-'07 ]
[ Forums '05-'06 ]
[ Forums '04-'05 ]
[ Forums '03-'04 ]
[ Forums '02-'03 ]
[ Forums '01-'02 ]
[ Forums '00-'01 ]
[ Forums '99-'00 ]
[ Forums '98-'99 ]
[ Past Speakers ]
Forums 1999-2000
Internet
Security: How Do We Achieve It?
Monday, May 1, 2000
Speakers:
Whitfield Diffie
Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems; Inventor
of public-key cryptography
Jeffrey Schiller
Manager, Campus Computer Network, MIT; Author, MIT Kerberos Authentication
System
Alan Davidson '89
Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology
Joseph Pato
Senior Scientist, Hewlett Packard,
Trusted E-Services Lab and Chief Technology Officer, Internet Security
Solutions Division
Moderator:
Ronald Rivest
Associate
Director, Lab for Computer Science,
MIT
[ Listen
to it ]
Forging
Sustainable Communities: How Do We Get Here to There?
Tuesday, April 25, 2000
Speakers:
William Shutkin
Founder and President, New Ecology, Inc.;
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning,
MIT; author of The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in
the 21st Century
Greg Watson
VP, Massachusetts Technology
Collaborative Renewable Energy
Programs ; Director, Massachusetts
Renewable Energy Trust
Mark Dowie
Author of Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the 20th
Century ; former publisher and editor of Mother Jones
Fred Moavenzadeh
Director, Center for Technology, Policy
and Industrial Development, MIT;
Director, Technology and Development Program, MIT
[ Listen
to it ]
Country
in Crisis: The Labor Movement and Human Rights in Colombia
Tuesday, April 4, 2000
Speaker:
Patricia Buritica
Leader of the Casa de la Mujer division of the Central Organization of Colombian
Workers
Moderator:
Professor
Jean Jackson
MIT Department of Anthropology
[ Listen
to it ]
Human
Gene Therapy: The Promise and the Peril
Tuesday, March 28, 2000
Speakers:
George Annas
Chair, Health
Law Department, Boston University School of Public Health
Sheldon Krimsky
Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy, Tufts
University
James Heywood '91
Founder and Executive Vice President, ALS
Therapy Development Foundation
Claudia Mickelson
Chair, Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, National
Institutes of Health
[ Listen
to it ]
Stolen
Harvest: International Trade and Global Food Supply
Thursday, March 16, 2000
Speaker:
Vandana
Shiva
Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy;
world renowned environmental leaders; author of Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature
and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Moderator:
Professor Jonathan King
Biology
Department, MIT
[ Listen
to it ]
The
Meaning of Human Identity
Thursday, March 2, 2000
Speakers:
Sherry Turkle
Author of Life on the Screen and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit; Program
in Science, Technology and Society, MIT
Rodney
Brooks
Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
MIT
Moderator
The Rev. Jane S.
Gould
[ Listen
to it ]
Making
Good Ethics Good Business
Thursday, February 17, 2000
Speakers:
Mitch
Kapor
Founder of Lotus, co-founder of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation; Visiting Scholar in the Program in Media Arts and Science,
MIT
Laura Nash
Director, Institute for Values-Centered Leadership, Harvard
Divinity School
Timothy
Rowe '92
CEO, Cambridge Incubator
Moderator:
Mary
Rowe
Special Assistant to the President, MIT; Adjunct Professor of Management, MIT
Sloan School
[ Listen
to it ]
Taking
Control of Our Lives: Freedom, Sovereighnty and Other Endangered Species
Tuesday, February 15, 2000
Speakers:
Noam Chomsky
Related Links: Noam Chomsky's
Works
[ Listen
to it ]
Re-Inventing
Higher Education in the 21st Century
Monday, September 27, 1999
Speakers:
John Deutch
MIT Professor, former MIT Provost and former director of CIA
Respondents:
John-Paul
Clarke
Asst. Professor in Aero/Astro at MIT
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