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Monday,
August 5
12:00
PM - 1:30 PM
Luncheon
Take this opportunity to spend the noon break with your colleagues
and learn about the Segway™ Human Transporter (HT) from Dean Kamen
(invited), Chairman and CEO of Segway LLC, and President of DEKA
Research and Development. Mr. Kamen is an inventor, physicist, and
entrepreneur, who has dedicated his life to developing technologies
that help people lead better lives. His latest creation, the Segway™
HT, is a breakthrough in personal transportation that uses sophisticated
and elegant self-balancing technology to improve upon the most basic
form of transportation, walking, by allowing people to go farther,
move more quickly, and carry more without separating them from their
everyday walking environment. Included in Full and Monday-Only registrations.
Additional tickets: $35
6:00
PM - 7:30 PM
Icebreaker Reception
Greet old friends, make new ones and share ideas to benefit your
professional enterprises. Visit exhibitors – including Segway™ Human
Transporter (HT) – while you sample delicious appetizers and enjoy
a refreshing beverage. Included in all Full and Student registrations.
Additional Tickets: $25.
Tuesday,
August 6
7:30
AM - 8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
Wake up to a glass of orange juice and a cup of fresh coffee. Connect
with friends and visit exhibitors, who are on-hand to show you new
and updated products and services geared to your industry. Included
in Full and Tuesday-Only registrations. Additional tickets: $20.
12
NOON - 1:30 PM
Boxed Lunch in Exhibit Hall
Take time for lunch and an informative tour around the Exhibit
Hall. Included in Full and Tuesday-Only registrations. Additional
tickets: $30.
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MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Laboratory Technical
Tour
Get a first-hand look at how Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS) apply emerging hard and soft information systems technologies
to address and alleviate transportation congestion problems. MIT’s
ITS program, established in 1990, unites researchers from the Center
for Transportation Studies, the Departments of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer
Science, and the Sloan School of Management to conduct multi-disciplinary
research on the applications of modern information technologies
to transportation systems, especially the conceptual design of intelligent
transportation systems and development of computer tools for design
and evaluation of ITS services.
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MIT Age Laboratory Technical Tour
Visit the AgeLab, a multidisciplinary research-and-design shop that
was established in 1999 as a partnership with industry and the aging
community to develop new technologies to promote healthy, independent
living throughout the human lifespan. Research involves an array
of disciplines including engineering, computer science, human factors,
health and medical sciences, management, marketing, and the social
and behavioral sciences. All work is motivated by a shared belief
that the appropriate use of technology, along with innovations in
its delivery, can have a significant impact on the quality of life
for older people, their families, and caregivers. The AgeLab includes
the Driver 2020 Consortium, which seeks to understand older drivers’
needs, capabilities, and behavior, to ensure that driving technologies
are safe and easy to use.
Wednesday,
August 7
7:30
AM - 8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
Begin your day with a quick bite, a greeting to colleagues, and
a chat with conference exhibitors. Included in Full and Wednesday-Only
registrations. Additional tickets: $20. 12
NOON
- 1:30 PM
Boxed Lunch in Exhibit Hall
Break for lunch and another informative turn around the Exhibit
Hall. Included in Full and Wednesday-Only registrations. Additional
tickets: $30.
1:30
PM - 5:00 PM
The Big Dig Technical Tour
Enjoy an insider’s tour of Boston’s marvelous Big Dig! Start off
with a one-hour slide presentation, then take a two-hour field trip
that includes the Operations Control Center and 2-mile walking tour
of the newly constructed underground Central Artery and Leonard
P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge. The presentation is open to all; the
field trip is limited to 30 participants. Construction-site attire*
is required. Tickets: $TBD.
* Work boots or similar laced,
leather, hard-soled, and over-the-ankle footwear are required (open-toed
shoes, running shoes, loafers, business shoes, sandals, pumps, flats,
high-heels, or sneakers are NOT acceptable). Long pants are required
(shorts, skirts, or dresses are NOT acceptable). Short sleeves are
the minimum requirement for shirts (tank tops or sleeve-less shirts
are NOT acceptable).
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MIT Media Laboratory Technical Tour
Tour the Media Lab, where research addresses the quality of life
in the information-rich environment of the future. The Media Lab
studies, invents, and uses enabling technologies for understanding
and expression by people and machines. Its work is rooted in modern
communication, computer and human sciences, with computers and computation
as the most prominent common denominators of this multi-disciplinary
merger of previously separate domains. Underlying the explosive
advances of the various technologies involved, it is discovering
and cultivating a new set of shared intellectual and practical concerns,
and exploring the technical, cognitive, and aesthetic bases of satisfying
human interaction as mediated by technology.
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