Apr
30
Artificial Intimacy: Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?
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8 Events
May
1
Tour of the Memorial Art Gallery Rochester, NY
- In-Person
Club of Rochester
Thursday, May 1, 6:30pm - 7:30pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
Join area MIT alums for an in-person tour of the collections of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery. The tour begin aat 6:30PM on Thursday, May 1 and will last about an hour and will be led by a gallery docent. The museum is at 500 University Avenue.
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May
10
Van Vleck Garden Event
- In-Person
Club of Northern New Jersey
Saturday, May 10, 1:30pm - 3:00pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
Botanical Garden Tour
Led by Deborah Jeanne Hirsch, Van Vleck House and Garden Management Committee Member
$20 Members. $25 non-members and guests. Children to 16 free.
Adult capacity: 30 persons.
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May
15
Prescription for Bankruptcy: America's Failing Health Care "non-system"
- In-Person
Club of Cape Cod
Thursday, May 15, 11:30am - 2:30pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
Prescription For Bankruptcy:
America's Failing Health Care "non-system"
Why do Americans pay more than citizens of any other country for health care and yet have, at best, mediocre health outcomes? Dr. Edward Hoffer will discuss this topic, and suggest both global solutions and practical things you can do to pay less and get better care.
Our speaker, Edward Hoffer MD
Edward Hoffer MD is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School and did his residency and fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Hoffer has held faculty academic appointments at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts, and Boston University. He has also held appointments at several Boston hospitals (Peter Bent Brigham, Beth Israel, Boston Hospital for Women), at many Boston metro-west hospitals (in Worcestor, Natick, and Framingham), and at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington. He has either authored or co-authored over 80 publications, including 8 books and dozens of refereed journal articles, many of which deal with the application of computers to various aspects of medicine and with issues within the American healthcare system (insurance, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, etc.).
For 45 years he combined clinical practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology with research on the applications of computers and AI to medical care, and continues to work half-time at the MGH Lab of Computer Science.
He has written and lectured extensively on the problems of the American healthcare "non-system."
Lunch at Alberto's Ristorante
We will be returning to Alberto's Ristorante in Hyannis because of the many rave reviews we received for the food and service in the past.
There will be a cash bar and we will be offering the same entrees as before (gluten-free is available upon request). All meals include a house salad and Tartuffo dessert.
- Chicken Parmagian - Breaded chicken cutlet topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese. Served with penne pasta.
- Pork Osso Bucco - Pork shank cooked with celery, carrots, and onions in a Barolo wine sauce. Served with mashed potatoes broccoli.
- Baked Scrod - Fresh baked scrod with seasoned breadcrumbs, white wine, and lemon touch of butter. Served with pasta and vegetables.
- Farcite Napoletana (vegetarian) - Eggplant rolled & stuffed with ricotta cheese, baked with San Marzano plum tomato sauce & three cheeses. Served with penne pasta.
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May
15
2025 Annual Dinner Meeting - MIT Alumni Club of Northern NJ
- In-Person
Club of Northern New Jersey
Thursday, May 15, 6:00pm - 6:00pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
MIT Club of Northern NJ
Annual Dinner
Thursday, May 15th, 6:00-9:30pm
Cocktail reception (cash bar) - 6 pm, Dinner and Speaker - 7 pm
Speaker: Dr. Emily Carter
"A Conversation about Climate Intervention Strategies: The Work Ahead"
Dr. Carter is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She is also Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences, and a member of the executive management team at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a Department of Energy national lab. Since joining PPPL in 2022, Dr. Carter has been working to diversify the laboratory’s research portfolio to include the science of electromanufacturing and solar radiation management.
One randomly chosen NNJ MIT Club member at the meeting will receive a $100 cash prize. If you are not yet a club member and are coming to the meeting, you should join the Club here before May 15!
Schedule:
6:00pm Cocktail Reception (cash bar)
7:00pm Three course dinner
8:15pm Dr. Emily Carter's presentation followed by questions from attendees
Location: Newark Marriott hotel at the Newark Liberty Airport
Price:
$70 - MIT Club members and their guests
$85 - All others
Free Hotel Parking included! (Parking ticket handed out during the meeting)
*I acknowledge and understand that: (i) I am not required to participate in this event; (ii) my participation is voluntary and at my sole risk; and (iii) I am responsible for my own protection against Covid-19, including, without limitation, following all health and safety protocols communicated to me or posted at the event venue.
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May
22
Book Club - The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
- In-Person
Club of Northern New Jersey
Thursday, May 22, 6:30pm - 6:30pm (America/New_York)
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Book Club: The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
A New York Times Notable Book
“Gripping…one puts down the book inspired by the women’s grit, tenacity, and brilliance.” —Science
“Riveting.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene
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In 1963, a female student was attending a lecture given by Nobel Prize winner James Watson, then tenured at Harvard. At nineteen, she was struggling to define her future. She had given herself just ten years to fulfill her professional ambitions before starting the family she was expected to have. For women at that time, a future on the usual path of academic science was unimaginable—but during that lecture, young Nancy Hopkins fell in love with the promise of genetics. Confidently believing science to be a pure meritocracy, she embarked on a career. |
In 1999, Hopkins, now a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher at MIT, divorced and childless, found herself underpaid and denied the credit and resources given to men of lesser rank. Galvanized by the flagrant favoritism, Hopkins led a group of sixteen women on the faculty in a campaign that prompted MIT to make the historic admission that it had long discriminated against its female scientists. The sixteen women were a formidable group: their work has advanced our understanding of everything from cancer to geology, from fossil fuels to the inner workings of the human brain. And their work to highlight what they called “21st-century discrimination”—a subtle, stubborn, often unconscious bias—set off a national reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, The Exceptions chronicles groundbreaking science and a history-making fight for equal opportunity. It is the “excellent and infuriating” (The New York Times) story of how this group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. And it offers an intimate look at the passion that drives discovery, and a rare glimpse into the competitive, hierarchical world of elite science—and the women who dared to challenge it.
No Fee: just let us know you are coming
This book is available on Amazon: The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
- ISBN-10 1982131837
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May
27
Amazon Fulfillment Center Tour - Edison NJ
- In-Person
Club of Northern New Jersey
Tuesday, May 27, 12:00pm - 1:30pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
Amazon In-Person Edison Fulfillment Center Tour
We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, 5/27, 12:00 - 1:30pm
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Tour Duration Each tour is approximately 60-90 minutes long. On the tour you may walk up and down at least one flight of stairs and walk approximately 1 mile. |
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Arrive Early Early arrival is strongly recommended. Plan to arrive 15 minutes prior to your tour. If guests do not arrive on time, the tour will start without you. Once the tour has begun, guests will not be able to join the tour. |
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Attire All guests must wear flat, closed-toed, and closed-heeled shoes (no sandals, clogs or high heels). We recommend wearing comfortable shoes or sneakers. Additionally, long hair must be pulled at or above shoulder length. Loose fitting clothing (long-hanging jewelry, scarves, or ties) are not permitted. Headscarves worn for religious reasons are permitted but must be tucked in securely. |
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Identification Upon your arrival, your tour leader will ask for a government issued photo ID. Please ensure that guest information submitted during sign-up matches the guest ID. |
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Children Children must be six years of age or older to attend the tour. Visitors may not carry young children on the tour. Guests under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
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Accessibility Amazon Fulfillment Centers are accessible facilities. To request a specific accommodation for a tour, please submit a request via the Amazon Tours Help Center ahead of registration to confirm we can support. |
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Service Animals Pets are not authorized on the tour. Service animals are permitted in all public areas and on the tour. Service animals are dogs that have been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability and does not include emotional support, comfort, or companionship animals. |
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Photography While cell phones are allowed on the tour, still photography is only permitted in designated photo spots along the tour.
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Items Allowed on Tour You may bring your wallet, keys, cell phone, and transparent water bottle on the tour. We ask that you keep all bags and backpacks at home or in a vehicle, unless medically necessary. Outside food and drink will not be permitted.
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May
30
Tour of the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- In-Person
Club of Rochester
Friday, May 30, 3:00pm - 5:30pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
Tour of the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics
When: Friday, May 30,2025 at 3:00 PM
Where: 250 E River Rd, Rochester, NY 14623
Free, Registration will open on May 1, Attendance is limited to 25.
The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) was founded in the fall of 1970. The mission of the Laboratory was to investigate the interaction of intense laser radiation with matter. LLE was established as a multidisciplinary teaching and research center for the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
The Laboratory has a five-fold mission:
- 1. To conduct implosion experiments and basic physics experiments in support of the National Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) program.
- 2. To develop new laser and materials technologies.
- 3. To provide graduate and undergraduate education in electro-optics, high-power lasers, high-energy-density physics, plasma physics, and nuclear fusion technology.
- 4. To operate the National Laser Users' Facility.
- 5. To conduct research and development in advanced technology related to high-energy-density phenomena.
Join us for a tour of this unique resource right here in Rochester.
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Jun
11
The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
- In-Person
Club of Cape Cod
Wednesday, June 11, 5:00pm - 8:30pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Wôpanâak was the language spoken by the indiginous people living in this region when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">After a couple hundred years of colonial laws, wars, and diseases, hundreds of Wôpanâak tribes were reduced to four small fragmented communities, and the </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">last people for whom Wôpanâak was their first language passed away in the mid 1850's. It took only a few more generations for all traces of spoken Wôpanâak to completely fade away, with the decendants speaking only English after that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>OUR SPEAKERS:</strong></span></p>
<p><img src="https://d21hwc2yj2s6ok.cloudfront.net/shrine_store/uploads/networks/143…; alt="" width="150" height="150"><br>Jessie (Little Doe) Baird</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Jessie (Little Doe) Baird</strong> is the Director of Linguistics, Lead Linguist, and a co-founder of the <a href="https://www.wlrp.org/"><strong>Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project</strong></a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In the early 1990's she had dreams in which people were speaking in an unfamiliar language, and soon after that she thought that the language might be Wôpanâak, the language spoken by her ancestors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">This inspired her to start researching everything she could find out about the original Wôpanâak language, and in 1993 she co-founded the<strong> </strong>Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project with the long-term goal of revitalizing the language, which had not be spoken for seven generations, for the people now living within the remaining anoag tribes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Because something like that had never been done before, there were many who thought that it was not even possible. But Jessie was undeterred. In her quest, she gained admission to MIT where she learned how to apply modern linguistic techniques coupled with historical records in order to understand original Wôpanâak grammar and to create a dictionary of 10,000 Wôpanâak words. (And she did all this while commuting between her home on Cape Cod and Cambridge while also raising four children).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">For this seminal work, Jessie was granted a <strong>Masters in Linguistic Science from MIT</strong> in 2000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>In recognition of this and other brilliant achievements</strong> ...</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In 2010, Jessie was honored with a <strong>MacArthur Fellowship</strong> (a.k.a MacArthur Genius Award).</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In 2017, Jessie received and <strong>Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from Yale University</strong>.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">In 2020, Jessie was named one of <strong>USA Today's "Woman of the Century."</strong></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Jessie and her work on Wôpanâak language reconstruction are the subject of a PBS documentary: <a href="https://www.makepeaceproductions.com/video-wamp-trailer.html"><em>We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân</em></a>, directed by Anne Makepeace.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Jessie also serves as the vice-chairwoman of the <a title="Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashpee_Wampanoag_Tribe">Mashpee Wôpanâak Indian Tribal Council</a>. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://d21hwc2yj2s6ok.cloudfront.net/shrine_store/uploads/networks/143… Kelley</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Tracy Kelly</strong> is the Director of Programming for the <span style="font-size: 16px;"> <a href="https://www.wlrp.org/"><strong>Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project</strong></a>. She was granted a <strong>Master in LInguistic Science from MIT</strong> in 2020.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Our Annual Education Event</strong></span></p>
<p>Prior to our presentation, <strong>Carol Bogin</strong>, our club's VP for Education Programs, will briefly report about all the education activities and awards for this year, highlighting the many ways we support the MIT Club of Cape Cod's primary missions to promote STEM education on the Cape and the Islands, including:</p>
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<li>The Lynn Bruneau Scholarship, which is awarded to all Cape Cod high school seniors matriculating into MIT.<br> </li>
<li>$600 mini grants, primarily awarded to Cape Cod secondary schools, for STEM-related projects.<br> </li>
<li>STEM Book Awards for the top STEM juniors at 17 Cape Cod schools, consisting of a commendation letter, a certificate suitable for framing, the book "Nightwork" (an illustrated collection of memorable MIT Hacks) and a $100 Amazon gift card with which the awardee can use to purchase a number of STEM-related books from Amazon.<br> </li>
<li>Full sponsorship for all Cape Cod teacher accepted into MIT's SEPT (<a href="https://sept.mit.edu/">Science and Engineering Program for Teachers</a>) summer program.</li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Lunch at Alberto's Ristorante</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">We will be returning to Alberto's Ristorante in Hyannis because of the many rave reviews we received for the food and service in the past.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">There will be a <strong>cash bar</strong> and we will be offering the same entrees as before (gluten-free is available upon request). All meals include a <strong>house salad</strong> and <strong>Tartuffo dessert</strong>.</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Chicken Parmagian</strong> - Breaded chicken cutlet topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese. Served with penne pasta.<br><br></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Pork Osso Bucco</strong> - Pork shank cooked with celery, carrots, and onions in a Barolo wine sauce. Served with mashed potatoes broccoli.<br><br></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Baked Scrod</strong> - Fresh baked scrod with seasoned breadcrumbs, white wine, and lemon touch of butter. Served with pasta and vegetables.<br><br></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Farcite Napoletana</strong> (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">vegetarian</span>) - Eggplant rolled &amp; stuffed with ricotta cheese, baked with San Marzano plum tomato sauce &amp; three cheeses. Served with penne pasta.</span></li>
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