Guest speakers and special events
Channel | updated May 15, 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.
A Policy on Leadership
A Policy on Leadership
03/31/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEdmund (Ted) F. Kelly, PhD '70, Chairman, President & CEO; Liberty Mutual Description: Ted Kelly walks a Sloan audience through the process of turning around a failing company. His formula? Develop two key things: a fact based analytical organization, and ...
A Reading by Jamaica Kincaid
A Reading by Jamaica Kincaid
04/04/2007 6:30 PM 6-120Jamaica Kincaid, Writer, Visiting Professor, Harvard Univ.Description: Many writers long to see their work appear in The New Yorker. Miraculously, Jamaica Kincaid got her start in print generating -Talk of the Town" pieces for the magazine, back in the (good old) days ...
A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public ...
A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public Interest Uses of ...
11/06/2007 4:30 PM 32G"449Pamela Samuelson, Chancellor's Professor of Information Management and of Law at the University of California at BerkeleyDescription: Pamela Samuelson walks her audience through dense and murky regulations and case law surrounding digital ...
A Roadmap for the Edge of the Internet
A Roadmap for the Edge of the Internet
04/08/2008 8"404Dr. Alan Benner, Senior Engineer, IBM Server DivisionDescription: In the curious way of technological evolution, we first had computers that occupied entire rooms, watched them shrink to desktop, laptop and palm"sized devices, and now find ourselves coming full circle, and ...
A View From Industry
A View From Industry
09/19/2008 10:40 AM KresgeGary Cowger, SF '78, Group Vice President of Global Manufacturing and Labor Relations, General Motors CorpDescription: GM knows you'll be skeptical, says Gary Cowger, but this icon of American business has committed to transforming itself via a comprehensive regime ...
A Volume Control for the Sense of Smell
A Volume Control for the Sense of Smell
05/07/2010 8:30 AM 46"3002Rachel Wilson, Associate Professor of Neurobiology Harvard Medical SchoolHost(s): School of Science, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
A.B.L.E. Tech: Achieving Better Life Experiences for People ...
A.B.L.E. Tech: Achieving Better Life Experiences for People with Injury, ...
06/06/2007 5:30 PM KresgeJohn Hockenberry, Distinguished Fellow, MIT Media Lab;Host, The Takeaway; Hugh Herr, SM '93, Assoc. Prof, MIT Media Lab; Dean Kamen, Founder, DEKA ResearchDescription: Imagine a time when technology trumps injury and disease, and the very ...
Aaron Koblin at MIT
Aaron Koblin at MIT 2010-2011
Koblin discusses data trails and our changing relationship with data.
Academic Leaders: Perspectives and Current Challenges
Academic Leaders: Perspectives and Current Challenges
03/28/2011 10:30 AM KresgeDr. Ian A. Waitz, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT ; Shirley Ann Jackson, '68, PhD '73, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Charles M. Vest, HM, MIT President Emeritus ...
Academic Perspectives/Panel Discussion
Academic Perspectives/Panel Discussion
01/09/2004 3:15 PM Wong AuditoriumDouglas A. Lauffenburger, Ford Professor and Head of the Department of Biological Engineering, MIT; James Cassatt, Director, Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics ; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Acting Director, Center for Bioinformatics ...
Achieving US Energy Security Through Energy Diversity
Achieving US Energy Security Through Energy Diversity
10/28/2008 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumBob Malone, SF '89, Chairman & President, BP AmericaDescription: "We've been spoiled as a nation," says Bob Malone. For decades, energy was inexpensive and abundant, and most Americans took it for granted. Recently "we've seen the ...
ACT Lecture | Bruce Yonemoto: Re-representations and ...
ACT Lecture | Bruce Yonemoto: Re-representations and Simulations
Bruce Yonemoto works within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce, and the gallery world and cinema screen. Yonemoto juxtaposes cultural material from different international communities, such as those of the Japanese Americans, Nipo-Brasiliero, Peruvian ...
ACT Lecture | Gloria Sutton: Playback
ACT Lecture | Gloria Sutton: Playback
Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now In the 1970s, broadcast television, cable, and even satellite transmissions were considered viable outlets for visual artists to experiment, tamper, and often times, spectacularly fail with, all the while engaging in a generative model of art ...
Michael Corris: What Do Artists Know?
ACT Lecture | Michael Corris: What Do Artists Know?
Michael Corris, Professor/Chair of Studio Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, discusses how some contemporary art is profoundly engaged with the world in ways that go beyond interpretation.
ACT Lecture | Michael Eng: Sound and Semiocapitalism: ...
ACT Lecture | Michael Eng: Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and ...
Sound and Semiocapitalism: Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real This talk will analyse the sonic and affective turns that have appeared relatively recently in both contemporary art practice and current critical thought from the standpoint of what Franco ...
ACT Lecture | Muntadas: Projects and Protocols: Conventions ...
ACT Lecture | Muntadas: Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and ...
Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology Muntadas’ work addresses social, political and communications issues such as the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigates channels of information and the ...
ACT Lecture | Taru Elfving: Archipelago Logic: Towards ...
ACT Lecture | Taru Elfving: Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures
Taru Elfving, curator and director of Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), calls into play the curatorial notion of the “dysfunctional” exhibition and its role within the larger concept of sustainability. CAA, a trans-disciplinary, ...
Activation and information in working memory and attention
Activation and information in working memory and attention
Bradley R. Postle, recorded 12/5/12
ADA TOLLA + GIUSEPPE LIGNANO: LOT-EK O+O (Objects and ...
ADA TOLLA + GIUSEPPE LIGNANO: LOT-EK O+O (Objects and Operations)
MIT Architecture's Spring 2012 Lecture Series: SpecificationsRead more at: http://architecture.mit.edu/lectures/public-lecture-seriesApril 12, 2012 - Ada Tolla and Guiseppe Lignano (LOT-EK)LOT-EK SCANS THE ENVIRONMENT IN SEARCH OF MANMADE OBJECTS AND ...
Advancements in Underwater Vehicles: Responding to Current ...
Advancements in Underwater Vehicles: Responding to Current Environmental ...
11/14/2007 6:00 PM MuseumJames Morash, '01, MNG '08, Research Engineer, MIT Seagrant ProgramDescription: Even if humans could breathe under water like fish, we might not want to become permanently aquatic. -Believe it or not," says James Morash , -the deep ocean is ...
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