TED Talks 2012: Sherry Turkle - Connected, but alone?
TED Talks 2012: Sherry Turkle - Connected, but alone?
Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.
TED Talks 2012: Donald Sadoway
TED Talks 2012: Donald Sadoway — The missing link to renewable energy
Donald Sadoway is working on a battery miracle — an inexpensive, incredibly efficient, three-layered battery using “liquid metal."
Technology 1934
Technology 1934
A silent film produced by MIT in 1934 to introduce viewers to the Institute.
Tech Model Railroad Club
Tech Model Railroad Club
Tucked deep within MIT's campus is a miniature world of model trains, elaborate miniature buildings and detailed sceneries. Now entering its 65th year, the Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT (TMRC) still caters to model railroaders, rail-fans and hackers alike.In this video we take a tour of the ...
Teaching robots to adapt
Teaching robots to adapt
Students show how household robots could use a little lateral thinking to compensate for their physical shortcomings.
Sustainability at MIT
Sustainability at MIT: Greening MIT's Campus and Beyond
The concept is getting a hands-on workout at MIT through projects that use the campus as a test lab.
Sushi Implant: 2013 Image Award Winner
Sushi Implant: 2013 Image Award Winner
Omid Veiseh, Joshua Doloff, Minglin Ma, Alan Chiu and Arturo Vegas explain the science behind their fascinating image, "Sushi Implant: Seaweed-Encapsulated Cells for Treating Diabetes." The image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards. See all the winners ...
SuperPacApp
SuperPacApp
The SuperPacApp helps voters get the information they need to make the most important decision of the year.
From Robots to Pageantry
Student profile: Jaqueline Durazo
Jacqueline Durazo, a mechanical engineering major, discusses her work building robots and participating in pageants.
Stu Puts Stephen on Notice
Stu Puts Stephen on Notice
Stu Schmill of the MIT Admissions Office puts Stephen Colbert on notice for trashing MIT during a recent interview with Richard Hersh on the Colbert Report.
Stopping a leak the way blood does
Stopping a leak the way blood does
Harnessing the principle that allows blood to clot, MIT researchers are working on new synthetic materials to plug holes.
Stereoptic Motion: A 2-D Movie about 3-D Vision
Stereoptic Motion: A 2-D Movie about 3-D Vision
Rafael Garcia of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT takes an inside look at Peter Schiller's research on visual depth perception.
Staying afloat in a cardboard boat
Staying afloat: the annual Cardboard Boat Regatta
In the annual Head of the Zesiger, students design and then race boats constructed solely out of cardboard, paint and tape.
Starr Forum - 'Marathon Bombing: The Global Context' (Part ...
Starr Forum - 'Marathon Bombing: The Global Context' (Part 1)
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia Dominguez. Moderator: Richard Samuels
Sprout: a pencil with a seed
Sprout: a pencil with a seed
Students in Product Design (2.744) asked, "What if pencils could grow?"
Spinning fibers at the nanoscale
Spinning fibers at the nanoscale
A team of MIT researchers has developed a new way to generate nanofibers, using hardware built through standard chip-manufacturing processes.
Spider silk makes music
Spider silk makes music
An ear for music, it turns out, might be a key to making structural improvements in synthetic materials.
Spacewar! Turns 50
Spacewar! Turns 50: MIT Celebrates Its Earliest Computer Game, Feb 8th and ...
In 1961, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) gave MIT a PDP-1 computer and the games began. From discussions about "interesting displays" to new lessons in interactive programming, MIT's Kludge room became the birthplace of Spacewar!Celebrate the 50th anniversary of ...
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Understanding the Path to ...
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Understanding the Path to Personalized Cancer Care
This with/in/sight program on Nov. 7, 2012, featured three experts exploring the future of cancer diagnostics and treatments that are personalized to the unique attributes of each patient and their cancer: Nikhil Munshi, multiple myeloma physician at Dana-Farber Cancer ...
Soft autonomous earthworm robot
Soft autonomous earthworm robot
Researchers have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an earthworm.