Alumni
Channel | updated April 25, 2013
MIT alumni all over the world are accomplishing greatness. These videos show a glimpse of life after graduation.
Desalination: The Key to Clean Drinking Water?
Desalination: The Key to Clean Drinking Water?
More than a billion people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water. Sea water is one possible solution. MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering John Lienhard offered his thoughts on desalination and answered questions from the MIT alumni.
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation - Kevin Surace - MIT Club of Northern ...
How Inc Magazine's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year built a clean energy company Hear CEO Kevin Surace describe how he injected his entrepreneurial clean tech vision to create the most innovative company ever to hit the building materials industry. How did Serious Energy ...
How kids learn today: Libraries, Technology, and Learning ...
How kids learn today: Libraries, Technology, and Learning at MIT in the ...
MIT students learn individually, collaboratively, and interactively, often in fast-paced, technology-enabled environments. They must be able to acquire knowledge and manage information whether they are 300 miles from campus, in a campus library, or sitting in a ...
Clean Tech Investing in 2012: What's Hot and What's Not? - ...
Clean Tech Investing in 2012: What's Hot and What's Not? - MIT Club of ...
Please join us at Silicon Valley Bank for an outlook on investing in clean technologies from an industry-leading group of panelists representing venture capital and investment banking viewpoints. Panelists Pierre Lamond, Khosla Ventures Steve Goldby, Venrock Partners ...
Faculty Forum Online: Homeland Security
Faculty Forum Online: Homeland Security
National security in an age of massive movements of people across borders is a universal concern that involves complex issues. While borders have different characteristics and challenges, there are areas of commonality. Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of crossings are not problematic, ...
Power System Balancing with High Renewable Penetration
Power System Balancing with High Renewable Penetration: The Potential of ...
About the Presentation The state of Hawai'i plans to obtain 40% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2030. Balancing intermittent wind with fossil fuel plants can be expensive, slowing adoption. A social and technical infrastructure for temporary reductions in ...
Start-Up Thinking: How Systems Thinking Helps ...
Start-Up Thinking: How Systems Thinking Helps Entrepreneurial Ventures ...
About the Presentation Soon after a business plan is hatched and long before manufacturing ramps up, start-ups begin to apply systems design principles to create their breakthrough products. It turns out that systems engineering, an art developed and perfected in ...
Vehicle Design Summit
Vehicle Design Summit
In 2006, Anna Jaffe '07, Robyn Allen '07 and Nii Armar '06, SM '09, launched the Vehicle Design Summit, a collaboration that included 25 college teams from across the globe to build within three years a plug-in electric hybrid car. More than 50 students from 21 universities came to MIT to ...
A Brief History of Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
A Brief History of Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
Dr. Adam Riess (MIT '92) - Space Telescope Science Institute, John Hopkins University
Does Nuclear Energy Have a Future? - Richard Lester - MIT ...
Does Nuclear Energy Have a Future? - Richard Lester - MIT Club of Northern ...
Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Fukushima. When coupled with the issues of waste disposal, weapons proliferation, large up-front capital costs and long lead times, will the disaster at Fukushima derail global nuclear energy development once and for all? Or will a ...
A Systems View of Enabling Enterprise Change
A Systems View of Enabling Enterprise Change -- Mark Moran, SDM '09 ...
About the Presentation Enterprise change is hard, especially for mature, successful companies. Many of the keys to accomplishing enterprise change come from seeing the enterprise itself as a complex system. This presentation will discuss many of the ingredients ...
Faculty Forum Online: U.S. Economy--The Real Solution is ...
Faculty Forum Online: U.S. Economy--The Real Solution is Growth
In the U.S., recent headlines have focused on such issues as the debt ceiling, the recent credit rating downgrade, and unemployment. But consider this: increasing the average growth rate in the U.S. by one percentage point over the next 20 years would not only result ...
Regenerative Medicine Against Aging - Dr. Aubrey de Grey - ...
Regenerative Medicine Against Aging - Dr. Aubrey de Grey - Part 2 Q&A - ...
Join us for a fascinating discussion with Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science officer of the SENS Foundation (SENS stands for "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senscence"), on the topic of "Regenerative Medicine Against Aging." Dr. de Grey has been a provocative and ...
Regenerative Medicine Against Aging - Dr. Aubrey de Grey - ...
Regenerative Medicine Against Aging - Dr. Aubrey de Grey - Part 1 - MIT ...
Join us for a fascinating discussion with Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science officer of the SENS Foundation (SENS stands for "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senscence"), on the topic of "Regenerative Medicine Against Aging." Dr. de Grey has been a provocative and ...
Engineering Leadership - Prof. Joel Schindall - MIT Club of ...
Engineering Leadership - Prof. Joel Schindall - MIT Club of Northern ...
On Tuesday Oct 18th, come hear about one of the newest and most innovative programs at MIT and see how it can apply to you! Launched through a $20 million gift (with a matching requirement) by the Gordon Foundation -- the largest gift made to MIT's School of ...
Julie Soriero keynotes Crew Dinner
Julie Soriero keynotes Crew Dinner
Julie Soriero keynotes October 1, 2011 Crew Dinner
Val Skov '55 speech at 2011 Crew Dinner
Val Skov '55 speech at 2011 Crew Dinner
Val Skov '55 was Stroke of the 1954 and 1955 MIT Men's Lightweight Crew which won the 1954 and 1955 Thames Challenge Cup. He discusses the travails during the 1955 season. The is an introduction and comments from Jack Frailey '44 who was the coach of these Crews.
MIT Alumni Crew Oct 1, 2011
MIT Alumni Crew Oct 1, 2011
Alumni Crew Race between Class of '63 and MIT10. Announcement of winner. Christening of our new women's racing shell in honor of Julie Soriero, our wonderful athletic director.