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WGBH Lectures is a collection of public talks presented and produced in partnership with WGBH or recorded at WGBH studios in Boston. Our lectures cover a variety of compelling topics of local and world interest. For a listing of all Forum Network partners including all participating public stations and community partners hosting and contributing lectures to the Forum Network from across the country please refer to our Partners listing page. WGBH is proud of the role we serve in our community, of protecting and projecting the public voice; and of informing and inspiring that public voice to foster deeper understanding of and civic engagement in important issues.break

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  • WGBH's "Innovation Hub" presents a panel discussion - The New Economy: How Automation is Changing the Game. "Innovation Hub" host Kara Miller explores the ways in which technology and robots are altering the workplace with a panel of experts. Panelists include: Andrew McAffe, a principal research scientist at MIT; Rodney Brooks, Professor Emeritus at MIT and co-founder of iRobot; Willy Shih, Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School; and Daniel Theobald, CTO of Vecna. Introduction by William J. O'Neill, Jr., Dean, Suffolk University Sawyer Business School. Includes demonstrations of new robots being used in the workplace
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    WGBH
  • Chris Altchek spoke at WGBH about PolicyMic and the future of online journalism.
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    WGBH
  • NOVA's **Paula Apsell** interviews **Neil deGrasse Tyson** about his book, _The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet_, and about his work in astrophysics. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist, is director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York and host of _[NOVA scienceNow](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/ "")_.
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    WGBH