Will Technology Save the World?

Atheist and Christian MIT Professors Discuss

March 9, 2012 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

Rosalind Picard, Founder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media Laboratory George Barbastathis, Singapore Research Professor of Optics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Jose Gomez-Marquez, Program Director, Innovations in International Health Initiative, MIT Susan S. Silbey, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, MIT

Life, the Universe, and MIT

Four Brilliant MIT Professors Share Their Worldviews

April 2, 2011 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

Rosalind Picard, Founder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media Laboratory Troy Van Voorhis, Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Daniel Hastings, Dean for Undergraduate Education, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT Alan Lightman, Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alex Byrne, Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

What is Freedom?

Freedom and the Brain

February 19-20, 2010

What is Freedom?

In Body or in Spirit

February 20, 2010 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

Beatrice Fernando, Activist Annette Kim, Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Minding our Morals

Freedom and the Brain

February 19, 2010 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

William Hurlbut, Physician and Consulting Professor, Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University Steven Pinker, Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Moral Mammals

Does theism or atheism provide the better foundation for human morality?

March 13, 2009 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

John Hare, Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne Eric Gregory

Matter, Antimatter, Does It Matter?

An antimatter physicist confronts questions of understanding and meaning

March 12, 2009 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

Gerald Gabrielse, George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, Harvard University

Sharper, Flatter - Does it Matter?

Beauty, music, and the meaning of life

March 11, 2009 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

Mia Chung, Concert Pianist; Faculty, Curtis Institute of Music Kevin Gosa

How Could a Good God Allow Suffering? Belief in an Age of Skepticism

February 26, 2008 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

Timothy J. Keller, Author and Senior Pastor, Redeember Presbyterian

Living Machines: Can Robots Become Human?

March 3, 2007 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

Rosalind Picard, Founder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media Laboratory Rodney Brooks, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Panasonic Professor of Robotics

Belligerents or Brothers?

Are Science and Christian Faith at Odds?

March 2, 2007 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

Ian Hutchinson, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ned Hall, Professor in the Department of Philosophy

Telling the Truth in the Business World

March 1, 2007 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

John Brandon

The Language of God: A Believer Looks at the Human Genome

March 1, 2007 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters:

Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute