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A U T H O R S @ M I T  (the rest* of the) Fall 1997 schedule

a series of talks & readings sponsored by The MIT Press Bookstore and MIT
Humanities & Dewey Libraries.

Tuesday, October 7  5:30 pm
MIT 26-100
77 Massachusetts Avenue - off the infinite corridor

How the Mind Works
Steven Pinker           
Steven Pinker is Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT.
How the Mind Works is published by W. W. Norton. 

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Thursday, October 9  7:30 pm
Sanders Theatre, Harvard
You know: "Down the street" or is it "Up?"

The Best of the Annals of Improbable Research, Marc Abrahams, emcee
The 7th First Annual Ig Nobel Awards
Join us as The MIT Press Bookstore becomes the unofficial official
bookseller of the Ig Nobels. Get your autographed copy of the Best of AIR
or wait until Marc comes to the authors@mit series early next year. We
doubt you can wait. Ticket info 496-2222.

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Thursday, October 16  5:30 pm
MIT Humanities Library
Hayden Memorial Library, 160 Memorial Drive  

Image & Science: A Material Culture of Microphysics 
Peter Galison
Peter Galison is Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and
Physics at Harvard. Image & Science is published by the University of
Chicago Press.

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Thursday, October 23  5:30 pm
MIT Humanities Library
Hayden Memorial Library, 160 Memorial Drive

The Platypus & The Mermaid & Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination 
Harriet Ritvo
Harriet Ritvo is Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at MIT. The
Platypus & The Mermaid is published by Harvard University Press.

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Monday, November 3  5:30 pm
Bartos Theater
List Visual Arts Center, Wiesner Building, 
25 Ames Street

On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science
Felice Frankel & George M. Whitesides
Felice Frankel is a Guggenheim Fellow and visiting lecturer at MIT. George
M. Whitesides taught at MIT for 19 years and is now Mallinckrodt Professor
of Chemistry at Harvard. On the Surface of Things is published by
Chronicle Books.

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Wednesday, November 5  5:30 pm
MIT Humanities Library
Hayden Memorial Library, 160 Memorial Drive  

Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
David E. Nye
David E. Nye is Professor of American Studies at Odense University in
Denmark. Consuming Power is published by The MIT Press.

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Thursday, November 13  7 pm
Bartos Theater
List Visual Arts Center, Wiesner Building, 
25 Ames Street

Hamlet on the Holodeck & The Gutenberg Elegies
An exchange between Janet Murray & Sven Birkerts
Janet Murray is Senior Research Scientist at MIT and author of Hamlet on
the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, published by Free
Press. Sven Birkerts is author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of
Reading in an Electronic Age. published by Fawcett.

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Wednesday, November 19  7 pm
Bartos Theater
Cosponsored by List Visual Arts Center. Reception following. Wiesner
Building, 25 Ames Street

Formless & October: The Second Decade, 1986-1996
Rosalind E. Krauss & Yve-Alain Bois
Rosalind E. Krauss is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art & Theory at
Columbia. Yve-Alain Bois is Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Professor of Modern Art
at Harvard. They are both authors of Formless, published by Zone Books,
and editors at the journal October, published by The MIT Press.

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Thursday, December 4  5:30 pm
E25-111
45 Carleton Street, near the Kendall T stop

Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard
Rosalind W. Picard is NEC Development Professor of Computers and
Communications and Associate Professor of Media Technology at the MIT
Media Laboratory.

All events are FREE and wheelchair accessible. Info: 617.253.5249 or
<authors@mit.edu>.
Signed copies are available for sale at a discount the day of the event.
Signed books may be ordered in advance. All events are at MIT in
Cambridge, except the IgNobel awards which are at that other University in
Cambridge. :-) The titles of the talks are the titles of the authors book.

* our first event of the season was Pauline Maier on her book American
Scripture: The Making of the Declaration of Independence (Knopf) on Sept
25th.

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