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.
ZIAD JAMALEDDINE + MAKRAM EL KADI: L.E.FT - RECENT WORKS, ...
ZIAD JAMALEDDINE + MAKRAM EL KADI: L.E.FT - RECENT WORKS, LEBANON
MIT Architecture's Spring 2012 Lecture Series: SpecificationsRead more at: http://architecture.mit.edu/lectures/public-lecture-seriesMarch 15, 2012This Lecture, instead of linking architecture production to its proper history (history of architecture), ...
Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
09/19/2006 6:00 PM MuseumNancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of BiologyDescription: Through her rapport with the zebrafish, Nancy Hopkins has made large contributions to the fields of developmental biology and cancer research. But her model organism, and to some ...
You Teach History at MIT?
You Teach History at MIT?
10/18/2003 9:00 AM KresgePauline Maier, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History; Description: "There was a time when it took enormous effort to make MIT students comfortable with subjects that had 'not just one right answer'. And so it has become easier to achieve what I think is ...
Yolande Daniels: Blindspots
Yolande Daniels: Blindspots
A presentation of a series of independent projects on the intersections of race, architecture and the city, Blind Spots represent spaces that may not be observed under certain circumstances. As a group, the projects explore the possibilities of descriptive terms and forms in architecture by ...
Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity through Leadership
Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity through Leadership
02/05/2009 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallMatt Gethers; Joy JohnsonDescription: Two students deliver heartfelt appeals for courage and integrity at the annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast. In the 1940s, Matt Gethers recounts, his grandfather was forced to flee South ...
Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity through Leadership
Yes We Must: Achieve Diversity through Leadership
02/05/2009 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Johnnetta B. Cole, Chair, Johnnetta B. Cole Global Diversity and Inclusion InstituteDescription: Two "sisters" -- both university chiefs -- celebrate the victory of the first African"American ...
Worms, Life and Death: Cell Suicide in Development and ...
Worms, Life and Death: Cell Suicide in Development and Disease
04/24/2007 4:30 PM 32-123H. Robert Horvitz, '68, David H. Koch Professor of Biology, MITDescription: A microscopic roundworm has come to play a dominant role in some of the most pivotal medical research of our time. In the labs of Robert Horvitz and his colleagues, C. ...
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
06/13/2003 11:00 AM 3-170Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology; Harvard University; Description: Why does a three year-old say "I went," then six months later start saying "I goed"? When you first heard the word "fax," how did you know the past tense ...
Winning the Oil Endgame
Winning the Oil Endgame
02/27/2006 4:00 PM WongAmory Lovins, Founder and CEO, Rocky Mountain InstituteDescription: Cars, trucks and planes lie at the heart of Amory Lovins plan for kicking the oil habit. We must make all our vehicles both lighter and stronger, using composite materials; more aerodynamic; and capable ...
Why Robbie Can't Learn: The Difficulty of Learning in ...
Why Robbie Can't Learn: The Difficulty of Learning in Autonomous Agents
11/19/2001 34"101Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MITDescription: In recent years, machine learning methods have enjoyed great success in a variety of applications. Unfortunately, on"line learning in autonomous ...
Why Newspapers Matter
Why Newspapers Matter
10/05/2006 5:00 PM BartosJerome Armstrong, Founder, Netroots.com; Pablo Boczkowski, Professor of Communications Studies at Northwestern University ; Dante Chinni, Senior Research Associate, Project for Excellence in Journalism; David Thorburn, MIT Professor of LiteratureMacVicar Faculty ...
Why Large Companies Should Out-Innovate Small Ones
Why Large Companies Should Out-Innovate Small Ones
11/02/2006 12:00 PM E51-115 WongDan Hesse, SM '89, Chairman and CEO EmbarqDescription: Given the choice, Dan Hesse would opt for working in a big company rather than a small one, especially when it comes to innovating. He backs up this preference with years of ...
Why is there No Class Warfare in the US? American ...
Why is there No Class Warfare in the US? American Exceptionalism and ...
04/23/2003 3:00 PM 3-442Chuck Collins, co-founder and Program Director of United for a Fair Economy and Responsible WealthDescription: In this talk, Collins discusses the economic impact of the (then) proposed and (now) passed into law Bush tax cut, and issues around ...
Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of ...
Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli ...
02/22/2010 4:30 PM 66"110Victor Kattan, Fellow, University of London; Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: Given the volume of writing on the Arab"Israeli conflict, "you might think that everything has been said," says Noam Chomsky. But Victor Kattan's ...
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies
01/30/2008 9:00 AM 32"123John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, and; Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Description: John Sterman pokes holes through some popular proposals for addressing climate change, with sobering case ...
Why Are Stories Violent?
Why Are Stories Violent?
You wouldn't ordinarily expect to find Euripides, Snow White, Bruno Bettelheim, and Rambo discussed at the same event. But they share the limelight in this session.
Where the Wired Things Are: A Day in the Life of a Modern ...
Where the Wired Things Are: A Day in the Life of a Modern Family
04/28/2011 11:30 AM Vanessa Van Petten, Youthologist and AuthorDescription: Vanessa Van Petten bears witness to a strange new future rapidly becoming reality: devices and apps available for every aspect of family life. Her Radical Parenting website draws on the ...
Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They
Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They
Jay Keyser, Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor of Linguistics. Description: Even if the typical MIT hacker doesn't qualify as a secret agent, he or she is to be admired for pulling off the collegiate world's most surreptitious, elegant pranks, believes Jay Keyser. While Harvard students get a ...
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design ...
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design of Materials ...
03/30/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Krystyn Van Vliet, Ph.D. '02, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and EngineeringDescription: Our conversations on sustainable transportation typically begin with a review of vehicle efficiencies, and end with the ...
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