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.
MIT150 Symposium Earth, Air, Ocean and Space: The Future of ExplorationThe five final student teams share their 'Revolutionary Exploration Ideas for the 21st Century", which will be judged by an invited panel of explorers. Competition website: http://explore.mit.edu.
Woodie Flowers hosts the 1981 competition for his famous "Introduction to Design" class.
William J. Mitchell, the former dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, led the Smart Cities research group at the MIT Media Lab and helped oversee an ambitious expansion of the MIT campus. As architectural advisor to then-President Charles M. Vest, ...
Author of Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (MIT Press, 1998), Dr. Virginia Valian visited MIT to discuss why women continue to lag behind men in professional advancement. In this excerpt, Dr. Valian examines how an "accumulation of advantage" and seemingly ...
LightBridge by Susanne Seitinger, researcher in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and Pol Pla, graduate student in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and the software team: Russell Cohen, Eugene Sun, Andrew Chen, Dave Lawrence, Daniel Taub, and David Xiao. Part of MIT's FAST ...
MIT150 Symposium Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything Symposium Speakers David Mindell - Chair, MIT150 Steering Committee and Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing and of Aeronautics and Astronautics Susan Hockfield - President and Professor ...
MIT150 Symposium Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything Symposium Speakers John V. Guttag - Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
MIT150 Symposium Earth, Air, Ocean and Space: The Future of Exploration Speakers David A. Mindell PhD '96 - Dean, School of Engineering; Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Presentation of XCOR Student Showcase Awards Jeff Greason - Founder and Chief Executive ...
MIT150 Symposium Earth, Air, Ocean and Space: The Future of Exploration Speakers W. Eric L. Grimson PhD '80 - MIT Chancellor; Bernard Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering; Professor of Computer Science David A. Mindell PhD '96 - MIT150 Steering Committee; Dibner Professor of the History of ...
1 * David A. Mindell PhD '96, Chair, MIT150 Steering Committee; Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing and of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Head, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT * ?Marc A. Kastner, Donner Professor of Science; Dean, MIT School of ...
At the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN), Professor Karen Gleason works to find a way to coat fine objects. Researchers in her lab use a process called hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) to deposit nanolayers of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, also known as Teflon). ...
3 Moderator: Tomaso A. Poggio, MIT * Rodney L. Brooks, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Technology Officer, Heartland Robotics, Inc.; Panasonic Professor of Robotics, Emeritus, MIT * Takeo Kanade, U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor, The Robotics Institute; Director, Quality of Life ...
Vignettes of early radiation workers with John G. Trump, DSc Professor of electrical engineering MIT. Moderated by Lauriston S. Taylor. In his video series "Vignettes of Early Radiation Workers" Taylor interviews pioneers on topics in "fields that have impinged on the ...
Moderated by Lauriston S. Taylor, Vignettes of Early Radiation Workers features an interview with John G. Trump, a Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, who helped form the High Voltage Engineering Corporation (HVEC) in Burlington, Massachusetts. HVEC became the leading supplier of ...
Victor Weisskopf and Philip Morrison give presentations for the Karl Taylor Compton Lecture series on the topic "Forty Years After Los Alamos: MIT and the Bomb". Moderator is Francis Lowe. April 17, 1985 [T16093]
During the summer of 2006, student engineers representing countries around the world participated in the first Vehicle Design Summit held at MIT. Students used their passion and ingenuity to build electric, hydrogen, and human-powered vehicles that were showcased at the Henry G. Steinbrenner ...
In 2006, Anna Jaffe '07, Robyn Allen '07 and Nii Armar '06, SM '09, launched the Vehicle Design Summit, a collaboration that included 25 college teams from across the globe to build within three years a plug-in electric hybrid car. More than 50 students from 21 universities came to MIT to ...
In 1963, Vannevar Bush PhD '16 was interviewed at his Belmont home for the MIT/WGBH television program Science Reporter and asked to reflect on the weapon he helped create, the atomic bomb. Bush, an inventor, engineer, and former professor and dean of the School of ...
MIT had the honor of a presidential visit on Oct. 23, 2009. Speaking at Kresge Auditorium, US President Barack Obama delivered a speech that addressed American leadership and clean energy research. The talk came as Congress prepared for hearings on clean energy ...
For the first time in more than 30 years, MIT opens its doors to the public at the MIT Open House on Saturday, April 30, 2011, from 11am to 4pm. For more information, visit Under the Dome.