EECS: One Hundred Years of  Transformation

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You are invited to enjoy the EECS 100th Symposium via the streaming video segments listed below. Similar streaming video coverage are available on the MIT World web site: http://mitworld.mit.edu/.

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I. "One Hundred Years of Transformation" welcome, introduction and some history

Charles M. Vest, President, MIT
John V. Guttag, Head, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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Paul L. Penfield, Jr.
Dugald Caleb Jackson Professor of  Electrical Engineering
"The Electron and the Bit: 100 Years of EECS at MIT"

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John V. Guttag, "EECS at 100"

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II. "Engineering Human-Machine Relationships"

Barbara Liskov, Moderator
Ford Professor of Engineering; Associate Head, Computer Science & Engineering

Rodney Brooks, Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science & Engineering; Director, Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence Laboratory "Human-Robot Interaction"

Leslie Kaelbling,Professor of Computer Science & Engineering; Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory "Learning to Live with Uncertainty"

Martin Schmidt, Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director, Microsystems Technology Laboratory "The Role of Tiny Technologies"

Victor Zue, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Co-Director, Computer Science & Artifical Intelligence Laboratory "Anthropomorphic Interfaces"

Panel discussion with questions from audience

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  EECS 100th celebration dinner at the Imperial Ball Room, the Boston
  Park Plaza Hotel, Friday, May 23, 2003. Photo — Barry Heatherington.

III. "Transforming Healthcare"

Barbara Liskov, Moderator

Dennis Freeman, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
"Watching Hearing" (Credit to Scientific American, November 1992 cover image from
article titled "Micron Machinations" by Gary Stix, 106-117)

Martha Gray, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical and Electrical
Egnineering; Co-Director, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology
"Better Understanding of Cartilage and Arthritis through Electrical Engineering"

Eric Grimson, Bernard M. Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering;
Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Education Officer
"Image Guided Surgery"

Peter Szolovits, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
"Engineering Medical Decisions"

Panel discussion with questions from audience

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IV. "Tansforming the Next Century"

Rafael Reif, Moderator
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Associate Head,
Electrical Science & Engineering

Tomas Lozano-Perez, TIBCO Founders Professor of Computer
Science & Engineering "BioEECS"

Jeffrey Shapiro, Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering;
Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics "Quantum Information is the Wave
(and Particle) of the Future"

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Centennial Celebration program notes (pdf)

News coverage of the EECS 100th:

Tech Talk, "EECS celebrates 100 years of glory"
Tech Talk, "Big achievements included room-size computers"
Tech Talk, "Evolving human-machine relations
explored at EECS 100th celebration"
InfoWorld, IDG News, " MIT highlights progress, future"