Guest speakers and special events
Channel | updated June 18, 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.
Welcome and Chair for Morning Session
Welcome and Chair for Morning Session
James DiCarlo, Earl K. Miller, Recorded 12/5/12
Weapons of Mass Confusion: Assessing the True Risks
Weapons of Mass Confusion: Assessing the True Risks
10/30/2003 5:00 PM 3-270Dr. Kosta Tsipis, Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Owen Cote, PhD '96, Center for International Studies; Jeanne Guillermin, Senior Fellow, MIT Security Studies Program ; Steven Miller, Director of the International ...
Watching the Arctic Melt: Surveying with Sound
Watching the Arctic Melt: Surveying with Sound
Art Baggeroer & Henrik Schmidt
Watching the Arctic Melt: Robotic Exploration
Watching the Arctic Melt: Robotic Exploration
John Leonard & Hanu Singh
Watching the Arctic Melt: Geopolitics
Watching the Arctic Melt: Geopolitics
Rear Adm. Richard Pittenger, USN
Watching the Arctic Melt: Ecosystem Adaptation
Watching the Arctic Melt: Ecosystem Adaptation
Carin Ashjia
Watching the Arctic Melt, part 1
Watching the Arctic Melt, part 1
Symposium on the Arctic Ocean
America's Path to Permanent War
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
Washington stubbornly sticks to national security policies that don't work, are devoid of moral considerations, and rob future generations, says Andrew J. Bacevich
Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth
Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth
06/05/2010 1:00 PM Wong AuditoriumAndrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial EngineeringDescription: In this talk Andrew Lo addresses the problem of finding the right level of abstraction with which to think about economic ...
Walter Lewin: Art through the Eyes of a Physicist
Walter Lewin: Looking at 20th Century Art through the Eyes of a Physicist
Physicist Walter Lewin shares his personal insights into major works of art from the first quarter of the 20th century.
Volvo's Environmental Business Strategy
Volvo's Environmental Business Strategy
04/09/2001 Leif Johansson, President of AB Volvo and CEO of the Volvo GroupDescription: On Monday, April 9, 2001, the MIT community had the opportunity to hear Leif Johansson, President of AB Volvo and CEO of the Volvo Group speak about his company's environmental business strategy. With the ...
Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora
Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora
There is general agreement that to call New Orleans home means "living with danger, dangerously," as William Barry put it.
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive ...
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive Exploration for ...
05/20/2010 6:00 PM Morss Hall Walker Memorial Ben Shneiderman, University of MarylandDescription: A focus on designing technologies that allow the "visualization of things not visible" has been at the center of Ben Shneiderman's work over the past two decades. He ...
Vision: Challenges and Prospects
Vision: Challenges and Prospects
06/13/2003 10:00 AM 3-170Pawan Sinha, SM '92, PhD '95, Associate Professor of Computational Science Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Description: In a fraction of a second, most of us can recognize a face in a crowd, or make out a face from a blurry image. Pawan Sinha focuses on ...
Vision of the Future (Part 2)
Vision of the Future (Part 2)
12/01/2005 10:45 AM picower atrium 3rd floorEric R. Kandel, University Professor, and Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, Columbia University 2000 Nobel; James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1965 Nobel Description: If the century just ...
Vision of the Future (Part 1)
Vision of the Future (Part 1)
12/01/2005 9:00 AM picower atrium 3rd floorIra Flatow, Host/Executive Producer, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday ; Susumu Tonegawa, Director, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory; ; Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences; ...
Vietnam Remembered
Vietnam Remembered
In this bitter commemoration of the end of the Vietnam War, the speakers dispel any comforting notion that Americans have absorbed lessons from that bloody time, much less sought the truth.
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