New Blogs on Slice: Is Yours Next?

Enjoy reading blogs? Slice of MIT has added a few new ones—and subtracted a few that have gone fallow. You can also suggest your blog for the Slice of MIT Blogroll. Meanwhile, check out these selections:

Business Impact of IT by Andrew McAfee '88, SM '90, who is based at the MIT Center for Digital Business.

In "How to Introduce Autonomous Cars Without Cooking the Planet," McAfee suggests that future cars that drive themselves (while occupants text, telecommute to the heart's content) might not increase driving miles (and thus exacerbate global warming etc.) if they were restricted to zero emissions vehicles.

His post, "Real Insights about Artificial Intelligence," describes the ideas exchanged at an informal lunch gathering of MIT researchers who are among the world's experts on the economic implications of cutting-edge technologies like and top AI experts themselves.

Let’s Get Operating by Victoria Knight ’08 chronicles her graduate adventures in MIT’s Leaders For Global Operations program.

Several blog posts discuss plant tours that all first year LGO students experience. Knight, who is focusing on manufacturing engineering, visited National Grid, New Balance, and Raytheon. What did she learn? Electrical utilities have massive amounts of inventory to manage. Leading a GM contest team, effective leading meant letting others in the group make key choices so they would be invested in the outcome.

STEM 2022, by Kelly Everett Aheimer ’91 explores the challenge of inspiring more Americans to enter careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math by the year 2022.

Aheimer, a teacher herself, says she sees lots of committed STEM teachers engaging students in FIRST robotics competitions and the Science Olympiad, but “What is still missing is an integration of the many forms of online courseware that are currently available, often for free.”

In the Art of Sabbath, Chaplain Jihyun Oh PhD '96 reflects on the art and artfulness of rest and renewal.

Aurelie Thiele PhD ’04 comments on her fiction writing and news related to book publishing in Italics are Mine.

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