An Evening of Discovery at the MIT Museum
For one night only in early December, invited guests gathered at the newly expanded and reopened MIT Museum in Kendall Square for a series of lightning talks by MIT Sloan faculty. The museum—much like MIT Sloan—strives to be a place where science, technology, the humanities, and the arts are all used to frame and reframe problems. Guests had the pleasure of featuring three of our incredible faculty members—Emilio Castilla, Kristin Forbes, and Scott Stern—to hear about their research as an example of how MIT Sloan faculty are making a difference globally.
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Emilio J. Castilla
NTU Professor of Management
Emilio J. Castilla is the NTU Professor of Management and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Castilla is currently the co-director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research. He joined the MIT…
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Kristin J. Forbes
Hear name pronounced.Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management
Kristin Forbes is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.She has regularly rotated between academia and senior policy positions. From 2014-2017 she was an external member of…
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Scott Stern
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Scott Stern is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stern explores how innovation and entrepreneurship differ from more traditional economic activities, and the consequences of these differences for…
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About the MIT Museum
The MIT Museum turns MIT inside-out, inviting visitors to take part in on-going research and demonstrate how science and innovation will shape the future of society. The opening exhibits are both informative and interactive, allowing visitors to write poetry with artificial intelligence (AI) in one room while considering the impact of AI on the future of work nearby. Highlights throughout the galleries include: a prototype of Nobel winner Rainer Weiss’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), which proved Einstein’s theory of relativity; the NASA-MIT Starshade Rendezvous Mission star-shade petal designed by Sara Seager to allow photography of exoplanets; the 1892 diploma of pioneering architect and professor Robert Robinson Taylor, the first Black graduate of MIT; the Apollo Guidance Computer (Block II), critical to the success of Apollo missions; and selected photography including Edward Weston’s Jiddu Krishnamurti (1935) and Judy Dater’s Lovers (1964).