MIT and its Media Lab, Special Guest at this Year’s Technology Symposium
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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in englischer SpracheThe Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1985 as a reaction to the radical changes in information technology and society by introducing innovations and giving impulses in areas such as music, visual media, virtual worlds, digital society or smart city. The Media Lab’s focus is human-machine interaction.
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Lita NELSEN
Director, Technology Licensing Office, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
| M.B.A. (M.S. Management Science) Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Sloan School, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA | |
| M.S., Chemical Engineering, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA | |
| B.S., Chemical Engineering, Award for First in Class, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA | |
| 1965-1972 | Research Group Manager, Amicon Corporation, Lexington |
| 1972-1975 | Senior Consultant, Arthur D. Little, Inc. Cambridge, MA |
| 1975-1983 | Business Manager Ultrafiltration and New Ventures Manager, Millipore Corporation, Bedford |
| 1983-1984 | Vice President, Operations, Applied Biotechnology, Inc., Cambridge, MA |
| 1984-1986 | President and Chief Executive Officer, University Seminar Center, Chestnut Hill |
| 1986-1989 | Technology Licensing Officer, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
| since 1986 | Director, Technology Licensing Office, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
| 1989-1992 | Associate Director, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
Michael SCHRAGE
Research Fellow, MIT Center for Digital Business; Visiting Fellow, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship; Visiting Fellow, Imperial College Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, MIT - Massachusets Institute for Technology
| Research fellow, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management | |
| Senior advisor, MIT's Security Studies Program | |
| Columnist for Harvard Business Review | |
| Regular contributor, The Conference Board Review | |
| Op-Ed contributor on national security and public policy, The Washington Post | |
| Top-rated Lecturer at MIT Executive Education Programs | |
| Contributor, CIO Magazine, MIT's Technology Review, The Los Angeles Times and ComputerWorld |
Ph.D. Shuguang ZHANG
Head, Laboratory of Molecular Architecture, Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
| 1980 | B.S., Biochemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China |
| 1988 | Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| 1988-1991 | American Cancer Society Postdoc Fellow with Alexander Rich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1992-1997 | Research Scientist in Biology Department and Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA |
| 1998-2012 | Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| since 2012 | Head, Laboratory of Molecular Architecture, Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA |
Dr. Pascale EHRENFREUND
Chair of the Executive Board, DLR - German Aerospace Center, Cologne
| 1983-1988 | Astronomy and Biology/Genetics, University of Vienna |
| 1988 | M.S. Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy of Science, Institute of Molecular Biology, Salzburg |
| 1990 | Ph.D. Astrophysics, University of Vienna |
| 1999 | Venia legendi in Astrochemistry, University of Vienna |
| 2001-2003 | Associate Professor at Leiden Observatory, NL |
| 2002-2008 | Adjunct Professor, Univ. Nijmegen, Institute of Astronomy, NL |
| 2003-2004 | Professor, Astrobiology, University of Amsterdam |
| 2004-2005 | Professor, Astrobiology, Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University |
| 2005-2008 | Distinguished Visiting Scientist/Consultant, JPL/Caltech, Pasadena |
| 2006 | Professor, Astrobiology, Leiden University |
| 2008 | M.A. Management & Leadership, Webster University |
| since 2008 | Lead Investigator: NASA Astrobiology Institute, Node Wisconsin Faculty, |
| Research Professor of Space Policy & International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, | |
| George Washington University, Washington DC | |
| 2013-2015 | President, Austrian Science Fund FWF, Vienna |
| since 2015 | Chair of the Executive Board, DLR - German Aerospace Center, Cologne |
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