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.
Transforming the Next Century
Transforming the Next Century
05/23/2003 3:45 PM KresgeRafael Reif, Provost, and Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Tomas Lozano- Perez, '73, SM '77, PhD '80, TIBCO Founders Professor of Computer Science and Engineering ; Jeffrey H. Shapiro, '67, SM '68, EE '69, PhD '70, Julius A. Stratton Professor ...
Transforming Health Care
Transforming Health Care
05/23/2003 1:45 PM KresgeBarbara Liskov, Institute Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Equity, MIT; ; Dennis Freeman, MS '76, PhD '86, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; Peter Szolovits, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering ; Eric Grimson, Chancellor, MIT, Bernard ...
Traffic Paradoxes and Route Guidance: Effective Ways of ...
Traffic Paradoxes and Route Guidance: Effective Ways of Reducing ...
12/01/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Andreas Schulz, Patrick McGovern Professor of Mathematics of Operations Research, Head of Operations Research and Statistics Group at the Sloan School of ManagementDescription: It is well know that we cannot engineer our way out of traffic ...
Toying with Transmedia: The Future of Entertainment is ...
Toying with Transmedia: The Future of Entertainment is Child's Play
05/18/2010 8:45 AM Bartos theaterHenry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; Description: In what could be the ultimate twist on Toy Story, Henry Jenkins suggests that action figures -- ...
Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
09/09/2009 11:00 AM Bartos theaterDr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Indian Planning CommissionDescription: People sometimes ask Montek Singh Ahluwalia questions loaded with "aspirational objectives," such as when India will "get rid of poverty." Few are as ...
Toward Efficient Airport Operations
Toward Efficient Airport Operations
10/26/2010 4:00 PM 4"237Hamsa Balakrishnan, Asst Professor, Aero Astro and Engineering SystemsDescription: Few of us would elect to spend countless hours at the airport watching planes arrive, depart and sit at gates. But what constitutes a punishment for some actually energizes Hamsa ...
Tough Choices
Tough Choices
10/18/2006 12:00 PM E51-115 WongCarly Fiorina, SM '89, Former Chairman and CEOHewlett-Packard; Author, Tough ChoicesDescription: As a receptionist, Carly Fiorina made an important observation: people in the mailroom were not -fundamentally different from people in the boardroom -- people are ...
Tomorrow's Engineering Crisis
Tomorrow's Engineering Crisis
09/28/2005 3:15 KresgeHoward Anderson, William Porter Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan; Kristina M. Johnson, Dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University ; Sophie V. Vanderbroek, Chief Engineer and Vice President, Xerox Engineering Center, Xerox Corporation ; ...
Three More For The Road
Three More For The Road
06/10/2006 3:00 PM Wong AuditoriumArnold Barnett, PhD '73, George Eastman Professor of Management Science, MIT SloanDescription: In a trio of mini-talks, Arnold Barnett applies statistical analysis to some of society's most confounding challenges. He first takes up the minority achievement ...
The Writing of Fantasy
The Writing of Fantasy
11/14/2007 7:00 PM 32"123Susan Cooper, Author; Gregory Maguire, Author; Roger Sutton, Editor in Chief, The Horn Book; Dr. Robert M. Randolph, Chaplain to the InstituteDescription: Sometimes the world gives off a glare "that's hard to look at directly," says Susan Cooper, and for her, making ...
The World's Numerical Recipe
The World's Numerical Recipe
04/26/2001 Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MITDescription: "We can cook up a superb model of ordinary matter (allowing a very liberal definition of ordinary) using four numerical parameters as ingredients. A passable model needs only two. After adding another two ...
The World's Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental ...
The World's Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges Past ...
Professor Susan SolomonEllen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science at MITDean of Science's Colloquium: “The World’s Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges Past and Future”September 13, 2012 Humans ...
The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of ...
The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of India and China ...
04/04/2006 4:00 PM 10-105Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr., President, Economic Strategy Institute Description: The world isn't so much flat as gravely tilting, "and may be on the way to some kind of self-destruction," believes Clyde Prestowitz, Jr. We're due for a major ...
The World is Flat 3.0
The World is Flat 3.0
Elaborating on his World is Flat thesis, Friedman describes how this new global order puts creative, entrepreneurial individuals in the driver's seat, and poses distinct new challenges and opportunities.
The World is Flat
The World is Flat
05/16/2005 4:00 PM 10-250Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times Foreign Affairs ColumnistDescription: Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, "Grandma Betty in her bathrobe" will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt ...
The World Economy Blanchard, Caballero and Rigobon
The World Economy Blanchard, Caballero and Rigobon
01/23/2002, 5:00 PM, E51-345 Olivier Blanchard Ricardo Caballero Roberto Rigobon Three members of the Economics Department came together for a discussion on where the world economy appears to be going, and the potential implications of September 11th. School of ...
The Wonders of Electricity and Magnetism
The Wonders of Electricity and Magnetism
The inimitable Walter Lewin gives a literally hair-raising performance in this MIT Museum lecture/demonstration for learners young and old.
The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books ...
The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books and Visualizing ...
04/01/2008 6:00 PM 32"123David Macaulay, Author, IllustratorDescription: This presentation feels akin to a new Disney ride: During your tour inside David Macaulay'simagination, prepare to soar over Rome's great monuments, raft within the human body's circulatory ...
The War in Afghanistan: How to End It
The War in Afghanistan: How to End It
03/10/2010 3:30 PM KresgeDavid Miliband, SM' 90, British Foreign Secretary, 2007"2010Description: [from the MIT News Office] British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged the Afghanistan government to consider bringing Taliban supporters into its political system, telling an MIT audience ...
The virtues of risk and failure
The virtues of risk and failure
MIT Sloan Women in Management conference talks up the virtues of risk and failure.
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