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Recorded on Wednesday, November 9, 2011
A silent film produced by MIT in 1934 to introduce viewers to the Institute.
The Eye Robot was developed by members of the CAVS Vision Group, a part of the Art, Culture and Technology program, for a theatrical production with producer and director Robert Wilson. The Eye Robot serves as a mediator between seeing and unseeing. It can interact with its surroundings, ...
This black-and white film features Harold "Doc" Edgerton interviewed by John Fitch about the technology and scientific applications of underwater photography for the MIT Science Reporter.
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Growing up in Indiana, exploring the local woods and pit where fossils were found, Richard Schrock early on became interested in the natural world.
In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold.
Jack Szostak started his first lab as a "freshly minted assistant professor" working in DNA recombination and repair reactions.
As an undergraduate at MIT, Robert Horvitz did not take a biology course until his senior year.
Nobel Prize-winner Robert Merton pushes back against any assumptions that he might be a "renaissance man."
Rich Wilson had followed the Vendée Globe Race since its inception, but had never considered sailing it himself — until he saw the potential for a school program.
The goal of the biological engineering discipline is to advance fundamental understanding of how biological systems operate and to develop effective ...
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