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.
All MIT alumni, faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend the Next Century Convocation on Sunday, April 10, 2011. As the centerpiece of the MIT150 celebration, the Next Century Convocation is a formal academic event held at the Boston Convention Center to celebrate the scholarly ...
A week of celebration accompanied the inauguration of MIT's 14th president, Paul Edward Gray Sc.D. '60, in September 1980. This video compilation shows the formal as well as playful events surrounding the historic occasion, from speeches and symposia lectures to ...
Excerpted from the MIT in Service documentary, this video trailer highlights a D-Lab class that worked on building better, cost-efficient schools in Cambodia. MIT's D-Lab is a series of classes and field trips that focuses on international development, appropriate technologies and sustainable ...
On April 4, 2001, MIT announced it would publish educational materials from all of its courses freely and openly on the Internet. Ten years later, OpenCourseWare (OCW) has shared materials from more than 2000 courses with an estimated 100 million individuals ...
On April 4, 2001, MIT President Charles Vest leads a press conference to announce the establishment of MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW), the web-based program to provide free access to MIT course content, including lecture notes, problem sets, exams and videos. Vest ...
The MITV NEWS student-run program on Nov. 1, 1976 features a debate on the imminent national elections chaired by Nancy Lukitsh with guest speakers Jeff Pressman (MIT), Walter Dean Burnham (MIT) and Chris Arterton (Yale). The program begins with footage of the presidential candidates Jimmy ...
Project Athena was a pioneering experiment in education developed at MIT in the 1980s to integrate computers into the university system and provide access to powerful software to the community at all levels. This 1984 promotional video shows how the campus-wide ...
Following an invocation prayer and a musical performance, Walter J. Leonard delivers the keynote address for the second annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Celebration at MIT. Leonard, who at the time was Special Assistant to Harvard University President Derek ...
The film "Hypothetical Risk. The Cambridge City Council's hearings on DNA Experimentation in Cambridge" was recorded in June 1976 at City Hall, Cambridge MA. Mayor Alfred Vellucci and city councillors Saundra Graham and David Clem are among those to question a panel ...
MIT150 Symposium Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering Symposium Session 1 - March 16th, 2011 Opening and Welcome David A. Mindell PhD '96 - Chair, MIT150 Steering Committee and Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and ...
In 1887, the State Board of Health of Massachusetts began a comprehensive and unprecedented survey of the state's water supplies. Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to MIT and the Institute's first female instructor, worked as a key contributor for the survey. Richards ...
MIT150 Symposium Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering Symposium Session 4 - March 16th, 2011 Chair Michael B. Yaffe - Professor of Biology, MIT Speakers Michael T. Hemann - Latham Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT David M. Livingston ...
MIT150 Symposium Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering Symposium Session 3 - March 16th, 2011 Chair Richard O. Hynes - Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, MIT Speakers Susan L. Lindquist - Professor of Biology, MIT Eric S. ...
MIT150 Symposium Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering Symposium Session 2 - March 16th, 2011 Chair Paula T. Hammond - Bayer Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT Speakers Sangeeta N. Bhatia - Professor of Health Sciences and ...
Walter Lewin's videotaped physics lectures have won him fans around the world. See why The New York Times calls him a "web star" in this video which highlights his popular teaching style during 8.01, a first-semester freshman physics class.
Observing tradition and reducing stress, MIT students commemorate Drop Day--the final day students can drop a class--by pushing an upright (broken) piano off the roof of Baker House. Piano Drop has been held irregularly since the initial drop in 1972 but the annual tradition returned with ...
In early spring 2004, a mating pair of red tailed hawks set up residence on the MIT campus in front of Building 9. These hawks were reported to have been building nests on the MIT campus for several years. They nested in a spot where Academic Media Production Services could capture and share ...
During a 1951 episode on Edward R. Murrow's See It Now television series, Professor Jay Forrester debuted MIT's Whirlwind computer. As project director, Forrester demonstrated the computer's combat information systems for the US Navy. View this video in its entirety at the From the Vault ...
Spring has arrived in Cambridge, which often marks the return of nesting Red-tailed Hawks to the MIT campus. This video features a special spring in 2004, when a mating pair of Red-tailed Hawks built a nest in front of Building 9. By chance, the nesting spot allowed Academic Media Production ...
As part of the Tomorrow television series produced by CBS for MIT's Centennial in 1961, screen actor David Wayne previews the scientific future. View this video in its entirety at the From the Vault collection on TechTV.