Apr
30
Artificial Intimacy: Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?
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11 Events
May
1
1st Thursday Happy Hour! 2025-0501
- In-Person
Club of Princeton
Thursday, May 1, 6:00pm - 8:00pm (America/New_York)
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Come meet with fellow alumni/ae at our monthly happy hours on the 1st Thursday of every month!
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May
10
Fun Run at Wissahickon Valley Park
- In-Person
Club of the Delaware Valley
Saturday, May 10, 9:00am - 11:00am (America/New_York)
Event Details
Join Us for a Springtime Jog & Brunch in the Wissahickon
Feeling a little sore after the Broad Street Run? Or simply looking for a beautiful spring morning outdoors?
Come join us for a leisurely 5-mile jog along the scenic Wissahickon Valley Park gravel trail. We'll enjoy the gentle hills, river views, and fresh air together.
Afterwards we'll head to a nearby brunch spot to refuel and chat.
Details:
- Distance: Approximately 5 miles
- Terrain: Wide, well-maintained gravel trail
- Pace: Social and relaxed – all paces welcome!
- Weather: Rain or shine
- Parking: Plenty of free and easily accessible parking nearby.
- Brunch: Post-run brunch at a local spot.
Please register to let us know you're coming and receive any updates. Simply select "Yes" under "Are you attending?" on the right side or top of this page.
Thanks for running at your own risk.
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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)
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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
22
A BEAUTIFUL MIND - Evening Performance - Princeton Garden Theater
- Reunions
Club of Princeton
Thursday, May 22, 7:00pm - 9:15pm (America/New_York)
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May
23
A BEAUTIFUL MIND - Matinee Performance - Princeton Garden Theater
- Reunions
Club of Princeton
Friday, May 23, 1:45pm - 4:00pm (America/New_York)
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May
23
50th Anniversary Celebration Dinner
- In-Person
Club of Princeton
Friday, May 23, 5:00pm - 7:00pm (America/New_York)
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MIT Alumni Club of Princeton
1975 - 2025
Join us for our
50th Anniversary Celebration Dinner
Featuring the exquisite flavors, crafted with the finest seasonal ingredients by Princeton's premier Italian Restaurant
La Mezzaluna: A Taste of Italy
5:00 - 7:00 PM, May 23rd, 2025
at the
1 Preservation Place, Princeton
*Seating is limited
Immediately followed by a special guest appearance and keynote by celebrated journalist and author
Sylvia Nasar
A Pulitzer finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the book was adapted into a 2001 film that received four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
“How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?” asked the Harvard visitor to the West Virginian with movie-star looks and Olympian manner.
“Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did,” came the answer. “So I took them seriously.”
Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the intensely human drama of a mathematical genius who, early in life, made an astonishing discovery and stood on the brink of international acclaim when he slipped into madness.
Thanks to the selflessness of his devoted wife, Alicia, and the loyalty of the mathematics community, Nash emerged after decades of a ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game theory revolution.
Sylvia Nasar’s now-classic biography, which inspired an Academy Award-winning movie, is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing power of love.
"A Beautiful Mind" on Audible, Kindle, and Hardcover
Sylvia Nasar was a New York Times economics correspondent from 1991 to 1999 and the first John H. and L. Knight Professor of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Nasar broke the story of John Forbes Nash Jr. in the New York Times and achieved international acclaim for her epic biographical study, A Beautiful Mind. Her biography of Nash, a mathematician, game theorist, and winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A drama about the mystery of the human mind in three acts, A Beautiful Mind inspired the eponymous Academy Award-winning movie by Ron Howard. Nasar followed up this triumph with 'The Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius', a sweeping history of the development of modern economics. Sylvia Nasar grew up in Germany and Turkey, the daughter of a German mother and Uzbek father who served as the CIA station chief in Ankara. Nasar's work has appeared in the New Yorker, BusinessWeek, the New York Times Book Review, and numerous other publications.
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May
23
50th Anniversary Keynote - Sylvia Nasar: John Nash at MIT
- In-Person
Club of Princeton
Friday, May 23, 7:00pm - 9:00pm (America/New_York)
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MIT Alumni Club of Princeton
50th Anniversary Keynote Speaker
A Beautiful Mind author
Sylvia Nasar
'John Nash at MIT'
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Sylvia Nasar was a New York Times economics correspondent and John H. and L. Knight Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is best known for her biographical book of John Forbes Nash Jr., A Beautiful Mind. Nasar broke John Nash's story in the New York Times. Her biography of Nash, A Beautiful Mind, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A drama about the mystery of the human mind in three acts, A Beautiful Mind inspired the eponymous Academy Award-winning movie by Ron Howard. |
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May
31
National Weather Service Tour
- In-Person
Club of the Delaware Valley
Saturday, May 31, 1:00pm - 3:00pm (America/New_York)
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The National Weather Service (NWS) has protected American lives and properties for over a century. The timely provision of reliable weather, water, climate, and environmental information has supported the Nation's social and economic development. NWS offices in communities across the United States and its territories, supported by regional and national centers, provide the authoritative information Americans need, including national, regional, state, tribal, and local authorities, to plan, prepare, mitigate, and respond to natural and human-caused events. NWS provides weather, water, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters, and ocean areas to protect life and property and enhance the national economy. These services include Forecasts and Observations, Warnings, Impact-based Decision Support Services, and Education to build a Weather-Ready Nation. The ultimate goal is to have a society prepared for and respond to weather, water, and climate events.
The tours will be conducted by a meteorologist who will go through the basics of how the National Weather Service operates and how forecasts are compiled and disseminated to the public. Participants will then be able to tour the operations area where current forecasting is taking place. Photography is permitted. The tour should last approximately one hour.
When you arrive, you may park anywhere in the parking lot. Please enter through the main door facing the road, not the side door facing the parking lot. Ring the white doorbell button on the right wall inside the vestibule, and someone will let you in.
Note: This event is limited to 30 people. Once 30 people have registered, registration will close.
The tour will begin at 1:00 PM. The tour size is limited to a maximum of 15 people. If we have more than 15 people, we will have a second tour at 2:00 PM.
Cost: (per person)
- MITDV members and their guests $10
- Non-members and their guests $20
Registration: Register online using the link at the top of the page.
Registration will close on May 28. Please register before this date.
As per club policy, only members of the MIT community are allowed to register themselves and their guests. Guests must be accompanied by their MIT host(s).
Alum Membership for MIT-DV Alumni Club: If you are an alum and would like to join or renew, please use the link: Join or Renew
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Jun
11
The Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project
- In-Person
Club of Cape Cod
Wednesday, June 11, 5:00pm - 8:30pm (America/New_York)
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The Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project
Wampanoag was the language spoken by the indiginous people living in this region when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620.
After a couple hundred years of colonial laws, wars, and diseases, hundreds of Wampanoag tribes were reduced to four small fragmented communities, and the last people for whom Wampanoag was their first language passed away in the mid 1850's. It took only a few more generations for all traces of spoken Wampanoag to completely fade away, with the decendants speaking only English after that.
Our speaker, Jessie (Little Doe) Baird
In the early 1990's our speaker, Jessie (Little Doe) Baird, had dreams in which people were speaking in an unfamiliar language, and soon after that she thought that the language might be Wampanoag, the language spoken by her ancestors.
This inspired her to start researching everything she could find out about the original Wampanoag language, and in 1993 she founded the Wampanoag 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 Wampanoag tribes.
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 Wampanoag grammar and to create a dictionary of 10,000 Wampanoag words. (And she did all this while commuting between her home on Cape Cod and Cambridge while also raising four children).
For this seminal work, Jessie was granted a Masters in Linguistic Science from MIT in 2000.
Not one to rest on her laurels, Jessie then founded the Wampanoag Language School. Over the years -- and after much fund raising, curriculum development, and training of additional linguists and teachers -- there are now hundreds of members of today's Wampanoag tribes who can speak Wampanoag, from beginners to people who are fully fluent.
In recognition of all these brilliant achievements ...
- In 2010, Jessie was honored with a MacArthor Fellowship (a.k.a MacArthor Genius Award).
- In 2017, Jessie received and Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from Yale University.
- In 2020, Jessie was named one of USA Today's "Woman of the Century."
- Jessie and her work on Wampanoag language reconstruction are the subject of a PBS documentary: We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân, directed by Anne Makepeace.
Jessie also serves as the vice-chairwoman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council.
Our Annual Education Event
Prior to our presentation, Carol Bogin, 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:
- The Lynn Bruneau Scholarship, which is awarded to all Cape Cod high school seniors matriculating into MIT.
- $600 mini grants, primarily awarded to Cape Cod secondary schools, for STEM-related projects.
- 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.
- Full sponsorship for all Cape Cod teacher accepted into MIT's SEPT (Science and Engineering Program for Teachers) summer program.
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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Jun
18
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose & the Cost of Genius
- In-Person
Club of Princeton
Wednesday, June 18, 6:00pm - 8:00pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
MIT Club of Princeton's
Book Club
Wednesday, June 18th
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose
and the Cost of Genius
The first biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose As a little boy, Roger Penrose and his father discovered a sundial in a clearing behind their home. In that machine made of light, shadow, and time, six-year-old Roger discovered a “world behind the world” of transcendently beautiful geometry, beginning a journey toward becoming one of the world’s most influential mathematicians, philosophers, and physicists.
In the years to come, Penrose earned a Nobel Prize, a knighthood, and dozens of other prestigious honors. He proved the limitations of general relativity, and he set a new agenda for theoretical physics. However, as Patchen Barss documents in The Impossible Man, success came at a price. Penrose’s longing for knowledge was matched only by his inability to understand those around him, and he struggled to connect with friends, family, and especially the women in his life. His final years have been spent alone with his research, intentionally cut off from the people who loved him.
Erudite and deeply moving, The Impossible Man intimately depicts the relationship between Penrose the scientist and Roger the human being. It reveals the tragic cost—to himself and those closest to him—of Roger Penrose’s extraordinary life.
In the years to come, Penrose earned a Nobel Prize, a knighthood, and dozens of other prestigious honors. He proved the limitations of general relativity, and he set a new agenda for theoretical physics. However, as Patchen Barss documents in The Impossible Man, success came at a price. Penrose’s longing for knowledge was matched only by his inability to understand those around him, and he struggled to connect with friends, family, and especially the women in his life. His final years have been spent alone with his research, intentionally cut off from the people who loved him.
Erudite and deeply moving, The Impossible Man intimately depicts the relationship between Penrose the scientist and Roger the human being. It reveals the tragic cost—to himself and those closest to him—of Roger Penrose’s extraordinary life.
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Jul
26
The Brandywiners at Longwood Gardens
- In-Person
Club of the Delaware Valley
Saturday, July 26, 8:00pm - 11:00pm (America/New_York)
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SAVE THE DATE: SATURDAY, JULY 26
For
THE BRANDYWINERS’ production of the musical comedy
SOMETHING ROTTEN!
At the
Longwood Gardens outdoor amphitheater.
This musical comedy was enthusiastically received on Broadway, and got several Tony Award nominations including for Best Musical. Write-ups call this adult-focused performance “Hilarious – funniest – outrageous -- crowd-pleasing musical farce”
Importantly, your ticket also gives you a full-day entry to Longwood Gardens. Our Club has its traditional seat block, and will also have arrangements for an optional outdoor dinner together before the 8 PM performance.
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