Over the course of the spring semester 2011, MIT celebrated its 150th anniversary with a remarkable cascade of symposia, performances, exhibitions, and landmark events. The events were focused on being "distinctively MIT." Videos from the 150-day-long celebration include historical retrospectives and broadcasts of MIT150 events.
This 1966 "Science Reporter" television program tackles the challenges of getting the Apollo Command Module safely back from space through the atmosphere to Earth - one of the most forbidding hurdles of the Apollo program. William Brooks (Langley Research Center, ...
Novel approaches to ship design using state-of-the-art computers are presented in a 1966 interview of Halsey Herreshoff, instructor at the MIT Department of Naval Architecture in charge of research in ship model testing, in this "Science Reporter TV program ...
In this video the Architecture Machine Group (a think-tank laboratory that preceded MIT's current Media Lab) introduces the Interactive Graphical Robot System and Video Slidathon. As the computer states, "The man-computer interface has evolved from the teletypewriter ...
This film, which takes its title from a popular MIT song featured at the beginning of the piece, offers a narrative history of MIT from its Back Bay beginnings to the mid-1970s, compiled from a range of vintage film clips from the MIT film archives. It was produced in 1976 for the MIT ...
Charles Stark Draper and Robert M. Love `33 give a wonderful pilot's view of early aerial acrobatics and film them from both the ground and the cockpit. Cameramen Draper and Arthur Rossi, pilot C.W. Sutherland. Location: Framingham, MA. Courtesy of MIT Museum. [T6124]
This 1967 film depicts the preparation, launch and recovery of the successful flight of the first seven and one-half million pound-thrust Saturn Five vehicle with the Apollo spacecraft. The actual course of the flight is portrayed through animation. Included is color photography from inside ...
The history of time-sharing is the subject of this lecture by Robert Fano, delivered on April 30, 1985. Fano joined the MIT faculty in 1947 and from 1950 to 1953, he led the Radar Techniques Group at Lincoln Laboratory. Fano is a member of the National Academy of ...
The first of two films shown here, "Eye of a Robot" (to 18:30) summarizes computer vision research being carried out in the 1950s at the MIT Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, under the direction of Marvin Minsky and with Patrick Winston and Berthold Horn ...
A promotional film for prospective students and visitors to MIT, "The Social Beaver" focuses on the community living and range of social and cultural activities that round out a student's life at MIT, from music groups to hobby clubs, the traditional Field Day competitions and dormitory life. ...
Screen actor David Wayne chats with MIT Professor Jerome Wiesner on developments in computer research and artificial intelligence, as part of the "Tomorrow" television series produced by CBS for MIT on occasion of MIT's Centennial in 1961. The program features the ...
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.
This vintage silent film footage shows a range of World War II ordnance developed at MIT, on display at the campus on November 10-12, 1945. More than 75,000 people attended the event, giving the Boston-area public its first opportunity to see the wide variety of new technologies developed ...
Fernando J. Corbató, associate director of the MIT Computation Center, discusses the challenges of resolving computer bottlenecks that were becoming an increasingly significant issue around high-speed computers, and the complex problems involved in setting up a ...
Professor Phillip Morrison delivers the first of two lectures for the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award titled "The Fruits of the Tree of Astronomy," on April 3, 1985. Established in 1971 as a tribute to MIT's 10th president, the Killian Award recognizes ...
Professor Franco Modigliani's lecture titled "Life Cycle Hypothesis of Savings" is the first of two talks he gave for the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award Lecture series. Kresge Auditorium, April 2, 1986. Established in 1971 as a tribute to MIT's 10th ...
Professor Franco Modigliani's lecture titled "Application of the Life Cycle Hypothesis to Policy Issues" is the second of two talks he gave for the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award Lecture series. Kresge Auditorium, April 9, 1986. Established in 1971 as ...
Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus delivers the first of two talks for James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, titled "Adventures in Carbon Research", on April 1, 1987. Established in 1971 as a tribute to MIT's 10th president, the Killian Award ...
Jay W. Forrester delivers the first of two talks for the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, titled "The Common Foundation Underlying Physical and Social Systems: Information Sources and Methods for Modeling Social Systems," on March 30, 1988. Established ...
Professor Jay W. Forrester delivers the second of two lectures for the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, titled "The Common Foundation Underlying Physical and Social Systems: Applications of Systems Dynamics," on April 6, 1998. Established in 1971 as a ...
The Seventeenth Annual Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. Celebration takes place on Jan. 18, 1991 and features Dr. Benjamin Hooks as the keynote speaker. Four students also present a youth perspective on the significance of the celebration in their own lives. [T15490]
