Otto Piene: SKY Event at FAST Light 2011
Otto Piene: SKY Event at FAST Light 2011
Rising above the Great Dome of MIT, immense inflatable stars soared over Killian Court on the evening of May 7 during FAST Light, the culminating event of the MIT150 Festival of Art, Science and Technology. The sculptures celebrated - and incorporated - the ...
Pia Maria Ahlback
Pia Maria Ahlback
Lecturer, Researcher in Comparative Literature, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Ahlbäck will examine a small number of spatial examples, urban and others, in the light of the phenomenological thought of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. She will also make use of the concepts of the ...
Sebastian Seung
Sebastian Seung
A revolution is happening in neuroanatomy, the study of the brain?s structure. Modern neuroanatomists are generating images that reveal the full complexity of the brain?s neural network using machines that slice brains into thin sections, and microscopes that see at the nanoscale. Seung?s lab ...
Starr Forum: Showdown in the Sonoran Desert (Book Talk ...
Starr Forum: Showdown in the Sonoran Desert (Book Talk with Ananda Rose)
Starr Forum: Book Talk with Ananda Rose Showdown in the Sonoran Desert Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy How can we preserve the integrity of sovereign borders while also respecting the dignity of human beings? How should a border -that imaginary line in ...
The Evolution of Financial Technology
The Evolution of Financial Technology
MIT150 Symposium Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy Moderator Andrew W. Lo - Harris & Harris Group Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management Panel Stewart C. Myers - Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management Myron S. Scholes ...
The Importance of Great Design & How to Get There-Jared ...
The Importance of Great Design & How to Get There-Jared Ponchot
A brief look into why design is so important and some basic fundamentals for doing it well. Much that is written and discussed in the Drupal world regarding design is actually not about design at all, but rather about theming. There exists a wealth of free and paid ...
Ute Meta Bauer
Ute Meta Bauer
Bauer will introduce the lectures series. "This is Tomorrow" was a ground-breaking trans-disciplinary exhibition (London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1956) involving key artists, architects, musicians and designers evaluating "habitation" through the human senses. Fifty years later: how do we ...
WTP-EECS electrical engineering projects
WTP-EECS electrical engineering projects
The MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a four-week summer academic and residential experience where female high school students explore engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects in the summer after 11th grade. Here, two of the 40 EECS ...
WTP-EECS electrical engineering projects
WTP-EECS electrical engineering projects
The MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a four-week summer academic and residential experience where female high school students explore engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects in the summer after 11th grade. Here, two of the 40 EECS ...
Yvonne P. Doderer
Yvonne P. Doderer
Doderer is an architect and urban researcher, and a Professor of Gender in Media and Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Duesseldorf, Germany. Doderer will discuss the contribution of sociopolitical movements to the imagination of alternative urban communities. Focusing on the ...
"A Tale of Two Waters" presented by Yang Zhang
"A Tale of Two Waters" presented by Yang Zhang
NSE Doctoral Research Expo On March 10, Student Street in MIT's Stata Center was transformed into a forum for ideas and dialogue. It was the site of the Doctoral Research Expo hosted by the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. The inaugural Expo brought ...
"Adapting Journalism to the Web"
"Adapting Journalism to the Web" with Jay Rosen and Ethan Zuckerman
How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
"Aha moments" for LGOs at MIT
"Aha moments" for LGOs at MIT
MIT Leaders for Global Operations students Jane Guertin '14 and Tacy Napolillo '14 talk about the amazing experience of learning directly from world-renowned experts like Andrew Lo, and then "seeing the classroom come alive" thanks to plant tours and other exposure to LGO partner companies ...
