New streaming database: Opera in Video

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New streaming database: Opera in Video

Posted March 26th, 2012 by Christie Moore

 

 

 

Opera in Video is now available to the MIT community. This streaming database contains 500 hours of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent some of the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses.

Stream video to your mobile device! All video is now supported for iPhone operating on 3G network or better and Android. Click on the mobile phone icon next to each video in the database to stream directly to your mobile device.

MIT FORUM : GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD LEADERSHIP Nominations are now open for the FY14 board

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:: GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD LEADERSHIP  Nominations are now open for the FY14 board

The MIT Enterprise Forum Global Advisory Board is seeking candidates who can provide dedicated focus and mentorship in areas listed below, as well as experienced leaders, entrepreneurs, and those with the knowledge, expertise and commitment to grow the innovation economy. The one-year, renewable term begins on July 1, 2013.

Board focus areas include:

  • Leadership & Process Development
  • Strategic Content Development
  • Business Accelerator Competition Models
  • Community and Membership Development
  • New Market Development

Learn more about the nomination process.

:: GET INSPIRED!
Watch tech entrepreneurship videos on our global video portal

Have you visited our new global video portal? Each month chapters around the world are adding new videos about tech entrepreneurship in their local region.

Videos include:

Business of Microbreweries | MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
Six microbrewery founders describe the trials and tribulations of starting and growing their businesses. They reveal some of the business and regulation challenges that exist in this market sector. Watch the video.

Shale Gas Fracking | MIT Enterprise Forum of Texas (Houston)
Shale gas formations have the potential to supply the US with cheap natural gas for the next 50-100 years. Labeled as a “game changer”, these deposits have the potential to transform US Energy Policy by reducing reliance on imported oil, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and creating jobs and economic prosperity across the country. Watch the video.

MIT Technology Review 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year: Ren Ng of Lytro
Ren Ng, founder and executive chairman of Lytro, demonstrates his breakthrough technology that is transforming photography, and accepts the 2012 award for Entrepreneur of the Year at EmTechMIT.  Watch the video.

:: CHAPTER SPOTLIGHT
Get to know the MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel

On December 26, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel hosted “Web Marketing and Tips for Building a Startup.” The event delivered first-hand experience and practices for growing a web startup with a modest marketing budget.

  • Asaf Peled, founder of FTBpro elaborated on their social marketing approach that made the company Facebook’s prominent community within months
  • Serial entrepreneur Iris Shoor showed how attention to details and tailor-made messages changed a 4% success ratio in PR activity with bloggers, to 1 in every 3 targeted bloggers posting a story about VisualTao, her former Sequoia backed start-up which was acquired by Autodesk in 2009
  • Avishai Abrahami of Wix (the no-coding website builder) and Ofer Vilenski of Hola! outlined the prerequisite user-benefit frontier for achieving viral growth and lead generation

Visit the MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel’s website to view presentations from the event.

:: UPCOMING EVENTS
Connect with the Enterprise Forum community near you

MIT Enterprise Forum chapters produce over 400 events annually. See what programs are coming up in your region by visiting our event calendar at mitef.org. Stay tuned for more information about new chapter launch events in Philadelphia (March), Korea (June) and Greece (September).

Upcoming Enterprise Forum events include:

MIT Technology Review Mobile Summit
June 10-11, 2013
San Francisco, California
St. Regis Hotel

Mobile technologies are developed and adopted at a staggering pace all over the world, providing tremendous opportunities…and, of course, considerable challenges: security, straining infrastructure, increasing power requirements. The inaugural MIT Technology Review Mobile Summit will provide a clearer view of the global implications and opportunities.

Register by January 31, 2013, and save up to $900. Visit technologyreview.com/summit for more information.

Five Faculty From MIT Appointed to eLife Board of Reviewing Editors

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Five Faculty From MIT Appointed to eLife Board of Reviewing Editors

Posted April 26th, 2012 by Ellen Duranceau

eLife, a new collaborative initiative backed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, announced the board of reviewing editors today for its new open access journal, eLife. Of the 175 editors, five are faculty from MIT: Barbara Imperiali (Biology), Nancy Kanwisher (Brain & Cognitive Sciences), Michael Laub (Biology), Aviv Regev (Biology), and David Sabatini (Biology).

According to the news release, eLife’s “first aim is to publish an open-access journal for the most important discoveries that is also a platform for experimentation and showcasing innovation in research communication.” The eLife journal, focused on life and biomedical science, is intended to offer “a top-tier open-access journal covering basic biological research through to applied, translational and clinical studies.”

eLife‘s goal is to “accelerate scientific advancement by promoting modes of communication whereby new results are made available quickly, openly, and in a way that helps others to build upon them.” Toward that end, eLife plans to “make decisions quickly; deliver a fair, transparent, and supportive author experience; and create maximum potential exposure for published works.”

eLife will launch toward the end of 2012.

For more information on eLife and other open access journals:

New York Times article about eLife

Open Access FAQ

Ellen Duranceau / Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing / MIT Libraries

Open access research in the news

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Open access research in the news

Posted June 18th, 2012 by Katharine Dunn

MIT researchers tackle big data

MIT will host an Intel-sponsored research center to look at ways of handling “big data,” collections of data so immense and complex they cannot be processed by tools that currently exist. The center will be led by Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professor Samuel Madden and adjunct professor Michael Stonebraker. In addition to the Intel center, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab launched a new industry-sponsored initiative called bigdata@CSAIL. As a part of the center and initiative, faculty and scientists at CSAIL will collaborate with corporate and university researchers beyond MIT to work on projects like analyzing biological data in search of more accurate diagnostic techniques or increasing the security and privacy of financial information.

Explore Professor Madden’s research in the Open Access Articles collection in DSpace@MIT, where it is openly accessible to the world.

Since the MIT faculty established their Open Access Policy in March 2009 they have made thousands of research papers freely available to the world via DSpace@MIT. To highlight that research, we’re offering a series of blog posts that link news stories about scholars’ work to their open access papers in DSpace.