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Tenth Annual Commencement Colloquy To Focus on “Honoring Tradition, Responding to a Changing World”

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will convene the 10th annual President’s Commencement Colloquy, engaging its 2012 honorary degree recipients—leaders from each branch of the U.S. government, along with pioneers in the business and academic sectors—in a discussion titled “Honoring Tradition, Responding to a Changing World,” moderated by Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson.

The colloquy participants include Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia; U.S. Secretary of Energy and 1997 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Dr. Steven Chu; former U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon; artificial intelligence pioneer and renowned computer scientist Dr. Edward A. Feigenbaum; and digital camera inventor and pioneer in digital imaging, U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation recipient, and Rensselaer alumnus Steven J. Sasson ’72.

The colloquy, open to the Rensselaer community and to the general public, will be held in the Concert Hall of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, on the Rensselaer campus, beginning at 3:30 p.m., on Friday, May 25.

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