Guest speakers and special events
Channel | updated May 22, 2013
Many experts and academics visit MIT each year. This collection houses videos from those events, which has previously been featured on the MIT World website.
Where Morals Come From (And Why it Matters)
Where Morals Come From (And Why it Matters)
09/20/2007 5:30 PM Wong AuditoriumBeatriz Luna, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; John Mikhail, Associate Professor, Law Center and Philosophy Department, Georgetown University; Patrick Byrne, ...
When to Seed, When to Harvest: The Four Quads of ...
When to Seed, When to Harvest: The Four Quads of Innovation, Growth
02/20/2002, 4:00 PM, Wong Auditorium Michael L. Eskew Under Michael Eskew's direction, UPS is expanding its emphasis on developing new lines of business that complement the company's core package operations. Driving this initiative, he oversees efforts to integrate ...
When Life Gives You Lemons: Informal and Bottom-Up Urbanism
When Life Gives You Lemons: Informal and Bottom-Up Urbanism
2012 CDD Forum: Shrinking Cities When Life Gives You Lemons: Informal and Bottom-Up Urbanism; Daniel D'Oca (2/21/12) Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner, educator, and curator who specializes in the politics of the contemporary built environment in America. He is ...
When I'm 64: Discounting, Time Preference, and Personal ...
When I'm 64: Discounting, Time Preference, and Personal Identity
06/09/2007 9:00 AM Shane Frederick, Sarofim Family Career Development Professor, and Associate Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDescription: Neither philosophers nor economists can satisfactorily explain some quirky aspects of ...
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
11/15/2005 5:00 PM Kirsch 32-123Rosalind H. Williams, HM, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology; David A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; David S. Jones, ...
What's New at the Media Lab?
What's New at the Media Lab?
03/01/2007 5:00 PM 3"270Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; Frank Moss, Director, MIT Media Lab; Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences; Jerome B. Wiesner Professorship of Media ...
What's at the other end? - Server System Design and ...
What's at the other end? - Server System Design and Deployment - MIT Club ...
Whenever your “information device”… computer, pad computer, smart phone, video streaming device, etc. … is connected to a network of any sort… home network, office network, the internet, etc. … by either a wired or wireless ...
What is Civic Media?
What is Civic Media?
09/20/2007 5:00 PM Bartos TheaterChris Csikszentmihalyi, Director, Center for Future Civic Media; Research Scientist; Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; Beth Noveck, Professor of Law, New York Law ...
What Harm Does Pathological Synchronization in Parkinson's ...
What Harm Does Pathological Synchronization in Parkinson's Disease Do?
05/07/2009 11:15 AM 46"3002Peter Brown, Institute of Neurology, LondonDescription: Like tuning in a station on the FM band of a radio, neuroscientists can detect the particular frequencies of our brains in action. And just as on the radio, a little noise and static is ...
What Does Re-Engineering Mean for Real Estate?
What Does Re-Engineering Mean for Real Estate?
10/01/2010 2:00 PM e14"633Dr. Ray Torto, Global Chief Economist, CBRE; ; Joseph Azrack, Managing Director, Apollo Commercial Real Estate; Brad Case, Vice President " Research & Industry Information, NAREIT; Tom Garbutt, Managing Director, TIAA"CREF Global Real Estate; ...
The present and future risks associated with hurricanes?
What Does Current Scientific Research Have to Say About the Present and ...
Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric ScienceDescription: As the costs of Hurricane Katrina continue to spiral higher — to date, $125 billion in damages and 1,200 deaths — there's keen interest in perfecting the science of hurricane forecasting. The ...
What Can We Learn From Related Industries?
What Can We Learn From Related Industries?
08/12/2004 3:15PM Wong AuditoriumScott Sarazen, Senior Vice President, Life Sciences, MassDevelopment; Andrew Parece, Vice President, Analysis Group/Economics Analysis Group, Inc; Tamsin S. Randlett, Senior Director, Government Affairs, Gap Inc. ; Stephen M. Sammut, ...
What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the ...
What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the System of Electing a ...
10/17/2008 11:00 AM Bartos theaterArnold Barnett, PhD '73, George Eastman Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan; Dr. Alexander S. Belenky, Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals; David C. King, Lecturer in Public Policy, JFKennedy ...
What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the ...
What (if Anything) Should Be Done About Improving the System of Electing a ...
10/17/2008 9:15 AM Bartos theaterAkhil Amar, Professor of Law at Yale Law School; Vikram Amar, Professor of Law UC Davis Law School; Robert Bennett, Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law, Northwestern Law; Alexander Keyssar, Professor of History and Social Policy, ...
Whales to Wood, Wood to Coal/Oil" What's Next?
Whales to Wood, Wood to Coal/Oil" What's Next?
10/09/2007 2:15 PM 10"250Daniel Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry; ; ; Description: In 1845, the Dietz Company of New York introduced the sperm oil lantern, which nearly wiped out some whale species. A decade or so later, Dietz ...
Welcome Remarks: MIT and the Digital Economy
Welcome Remarks: MIT and the Digital Economy
This conference highlighted MIT’s role in both understanding and shaping the digital economy.
Welcome and Overview
Welcome and Overview - Conversations on Quality Symposium
Welcome & Overview - January 24, 2012Daniel Hastings, MITEmily Dalton Smith, Gates Foundation, and Vijay Kumar, MITConversations on Quality is a national conversation on the quality of online learning in K-12 education. The conversations hosted by MIT and the Bill ...
Welcome and Opening Remarks, History
Welcome and Opening Remarks, History
04/11/2011 9:00 AM David A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Victor Zue, ScD '76, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director, CSAIL; ...
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