Communications Forum: "Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News"

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:30:47 GMT

Hybrid forms of multimedia, combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today's on-line journalism. How is this changing our journalism?

Earth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the Seasons

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:30:13 GMT

How can it be summer in North America and winter in Australia at the same time?!

MIT+K12 explains the seasons.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-conditions

BLOSSOMS - Discovering Genes Associated with Diseases and Traits in Dogs (Portuguese Subtitles)

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:10:17 GMT

In this video module, students learn how scientists use genetic information from dogs to find out which gene (out of all 20,000 dog genes) is associated with any specific trait or disease of interest.

Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects (MIT Communications Forum)

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:30:13 GMT

Held Thursday, November 1, 2012.

The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era. How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future? How is the very idea of the library changing?

Jacopo Buongiorno : Research Advances

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:07:29 GMT

Michael Silberman, "How to Mobilize Millions"

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:30:13 GMT

The Digital Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace is a testing ground for new ideas and advocacy experiments. To pioneer a new era of people-powered campaigning, the Lab pushes the envelope of technology use in campaigns. It's an open, global hub of networks -- inside and outside of Greenpeace.

Michael Silberman is the Global Director of the Digital Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace. The "MobLab" exists to transform how campaigns are fought and won, pioneering a powerful new era of “people-powered” strategies that amplify campaign impact and create positive change. Silberman and his team work with Greenpeace and its allies in 42 countries to envision, test, and roll out creative new means of communicating, organizing, and fundraising online. Silberman chairs the annual Web of Change conference, the premier gathering for leading thinkers and campaigners working at the intersection of technology and social change, and he was most recently a founding Partner at EchoDitto, a digital consultancy empowering NGOs to have a greater impact through the creative use of new technologies.

New England Aquarium IMAX Lecture

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:30:12 GMT

Big Computation and a Genomic Jigsaw Puzzle

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:06:19 GMT

The human genome is made up of 3 billion base pairs. Reading the genome from a modern, high-speed sequencer is a lot like doing a big jigsaw puzzle. Computer Scientist, Assistant Professor Yanlei Diao (UMass Amherst) leads a multi institution collaboration to develop next-generation, on-demand big computation services for managing and processing these massive amounts of genomic information.

Working with Li-Jun Ma, Assistant Professor in Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences (UMass Amherst), Professor Samuel Madden (MIT), Bai-Lin Wu (Harvard and Children's Hospital), Toby Bloom (the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT), and James F. Gusella (Massachusetts General Hospital), Diao's project was one of 7 to receive seed funding, in the first round of such awards from the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Consortium.

In this video members of the team share the science behind their work, what each brings to the project as well as what harnessing high performance computing could bring to genomics, epigenomics and human health.

Thanks to the staff of the Genetics Diagnostic Lab at Children's Hospital, Boston for their help in making this video.

Video by Helen Hill

Research & Policy Design: Part VII

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:06:19 GMT

Research and Policy Design: The First J-PAL Bihar Development Conference

Session II Question & Answer: L.V. Subramanyam (I.A.S., Principal Secretary-Health, Government of Andhra Pradesh) and Karthik Muralidharan (Assistant Professor of Economics, UC San Diego) answer questions related to deworming.

A scientist's eye view of research for sustainable energy

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 07:07:00 GMT

October 24, 2012

Speaker

Ellen Williams, Chief Scientist, BP

Abstract

We face one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century: providing more and more energy to meet rising demand, but keeping it affordable, secure, reliable and sustainable. But ‘sustainable’ means different things to different people – from discovering and recovering more oil and gas to minimizing the constraints on natural resources used in energy. In this talk, Ellen Williams will outline the importance of scientific research to both finding new solutions and providing trusted data to underpin informed decisions about energy, water, land and minerals.

She will also discuss the importance of effective industry/academic research partnerships to address the challenges of sustainable energy and illustrate this with examples of BP collaboration with MIT and other leading academic institutions.

Barber of Seville Overture - Rossini Piano Roll

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:30:14 GMT

Piano arrangement on hand-punched paper. A dynamic Gershwin transcription of Rossini's Overture from the opera Barber of Seville. Note: Music rolls or piano rolls were almost never played or recorded by a pianist. Even when the artist was part of the process, arrangers, some skilled, some not, edited the rolls heavily and limited by factory rules and equipment. Performed and interpreted on a player piano from the 1920s.

MIT Soap Box - Climate and Conflict

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:30:14 GMT

Sweet Nothings - Piano Roll

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:30:14 GMT

ARTCRAFT piano arrangement on hand-punched paper. A dynamic, sweet, mesmerizing piano roll rendition of Sweet Nothings. Douglas Henderson is the arranger cum laude. Performed and interpreted on a player piano from the 1920s. Note: Permission granted to me from ARTCRAFT to show this music roll online.

Manhattan Rag - Piano Music Roll

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:30:13 GMT

ARTCRAFT piano arrangement on hand-punched paper. A dynamic, moderne, mesmerizing piano roll rendition of Manhattan Rag composed by Hoagy Carmichael. Douglas Henderson is the arranger cum laude. Performed and interpreted on a player piano from the 1920s. Note: Permission granted to me from ARTCRAFT to show this music roll online.

Ragtime Nightingale - Twittering Piano Roll

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:30:13 GMT

ARTCRAFT piano arrangement on hand-punched paper. A dynamic, mesmerizing piano roll rendition of Ragtime Nightingale. Douglas Henderson is the arranger cum laude. Performed and interpreted on a player piano from the 1920s. Note: Permission granted to me from ARTCRAFT to show this music roll online.

Revolution in The Workplace

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:08:12 GMT

Boston Properties Senior Vice President and Regional Manager, Bryan J. Koop, presented his analysis and vision of a Revolution in the Workplace to our MSRED graduate students. Bryan’s presentation, as part of Professor Frenchman’s and Professor Roth’s Real Estate Products class, revealed a peek into the future of high-value office environments – specifically office and R & D space. Focused on the knowledge worker, these work environments will have a much greater emphasis on high-quality – yet informal – collaborative spaces over individual, private offices. Bryan’s presentation also included a case study of Boston Properties' recent Atlantic Wharf project, Boston's newest 31-story office tower. Carefully preserving the original facades, this high-rise was constructed atop seven stories of historic 1890’s wharf buildings.

The Deshpande Center@10

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:08:12 GMT

The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT celebrates its tenth anniversary.

Open Access

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:06:51 GMT

Linda Gregerson: "Why I Write Poems"

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:30:13 GMT

Welcome MIT Sloan MFin Students

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:05:45 GMT

David Schmittlein, John C Head III Dean, Professor of Marketing, welcomes the MIT Sloan MFin students to the Program. For more information about the MFin program visit http://mitsloan.mit.edu/mfin/

What Can Engineers Make?

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:05:45 GMT

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Überclocker Ünicorn @ Robot Battles Dragon*Con 2012

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:30:16 GMT

30lb combat robots sumo-style at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, GA.

Smart Grid - Opportunities for Innovation - MIT Club of Northern California

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:30:08 GMT

Neil Armstrong once said that our electric grid was one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century. Yet, in the next few decades, our electric grid will need to be modernized to meet the evolving energy challenges of the 21st century. These include increasing renewable energy generation and dealing with the proliferation of distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage, and smart appliances, while keeping electric energy supply inexpensive and reliable.

But with challenges come opportunities for innovation. New technologies such as grid data networking, smart meters, analytics and demand response algorithms will help modernize our electric grid and benefit consumers and utilities alike through enhanced energy efficiency, improved reliability, the ability to integrate new sources of energy generation, including at the local level.

What new technologies, solutions, and business model innovations are required to allow a Smart Grid to be able to realize its potential to deliver these benefits, including adapting to emerging;distributed energy resources?
Smart Meters, aka advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), have been deployed throughout the state, but Time-of-Use (TOU) rates or dynamic pricing have not yet been implemented. Will they be mandated so consumers can start managing their energy bills better?
With the smart grid, more energy devices will be networked and a lot of Big Data will flow. What innovations are needed to be able to analyze the data and optimize supply and demand in order to deliver benefits to energy providers and consumers?

Please join us to learn about the numerous Smart Grid innovation opportunities from top executives of leading smart grid companies in the Bay Area!

Andy White – CEO, Trilliant
Brian Thompson - CEO, Stem
Lisa Caswell – President, eMeter
Steve Malnight – VP, Pacific Gas & Electric
Moderator: Don Keller – Board of Directors, Orrick

JOERG SCHLAICH: The Challenge and Joy of Structural Engineering

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:08:23 GMT

*The Challenge and Joy of Structural Engineering is the inaugural Edward and Mary Allen Lecture in Structural Design.

Topic 1
The Challenge and the Joy of Structural Engineering
Assuming that this lecture will not only be attended by structural engineers but also by architects and further that as I understand an inaugural lecture should give an overview of my work, I decided for a general description of my projects with emphasis on my collaboration with architects.

Topic 2
Solar Electricity from the Desert – Prosperity for all
Poverty is large parts of this earth and how it could be overcome is what really occupies my mind. Since time probably does not permit to include this topic in my main lecture, I will bring it with me just in case there is time and interest.

Joerg Schlaich
Structural Engineer, Founder, Schlaich Bergermann & Partner, Stuttgart

Prof. Dr. Ing. Drs. h.c. Jo?rg Schlaich is a German structural engineer. He studied architecture and civil engineering from 1953 to 1955 at Stuttgart University before completing his studies at the Technical University of Berlin in 1959 (Dr. Ing.). He spent 1959-60 at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA (MSc.).

Jo?rg Schlaich was made a partner of the structural engineers, Leonhardt und Andra? and was responsible for the Olympic Stadium Roof, Munich in 1968-72.

From 1974 to 2000 he was full professor and director of the Institute for Concrete Structures (Institut fu?r Massivbau), later called for Structural Design (Konstruktion und Entwurf) at the University of Stuttgart. In 1980 he and his partner, Dr. Bergermann, founded their own firm, Schlaich Bergermann und Partner in Stuttgart.

Most of his projects as well of that of his company with offices in Stuttgart, Berlin, New York, Sao Paulo and Shanghai is documented on their website (www.sbp.de). The work of schlaich bergermann und partner focuses on the three main themes of building, surveying and solar energy.

Jo?rg Schlaich is also the developer of the Solar Updraft Tower for large scale solar energy generation. He is credited with advancing the strut and tie model for reinforced concrete.

Research & Policy Design: Part VIII

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:08:23 GMT

Research and Policy Design: The First J-PAL Bihar Development Conference

Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Kumar Modi

Higher Ed Video Community User Group Meetup - 10/24/2012

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:30:09 GMT

There has been some interest expressed on technologies that are being used out in the Higher Ed space, so we will be having three products companies present for us to open us some ideas and discussions.

The first presentation will be from 3PlayMedia.com. Josh and CJ from 3Play Media will cover the basics of captioning for accessible online video, including accessibility laws, best practices for creating captions, and the impact of HTML5 and emerging standards. They will also demonstrate how captioning can be used to engage users with new interactive video experiences.

The second presentation will be from Andy at Ensemble Video. Ensemble Video takes the work out of having to manage the flow of digital content yourself, by providing a simple and straightforward platform to enable cost-effective publishing, sharing and streaming of media-on-demand content. With a few clicks of a mouse, users can upload, catalogue, and publish rich media content to websites or digital signage, without requiring assistance from IT. Individual departments and users can manage their own video libraries and easily share content with others. Ensemble easily integrates with media servers, and has the capability to automatically import video files stored on a media server and is available as either a Hosted or Self Hosted Solution.

The third presentation was by Florian Hollerweger about an Austrian startup called Auphonic (http://auphonic.com). They do an automatic audio-post production web service, which has attracted quite some attention in the German-speaking podcaster scene, and also in the higher-education video community (e.g., Opencast/Matterhorn).

Research & Policy Design: Part IX

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:30:13 GMT

Research and Policy Design: The First J-PAL Bihar Development Conference

Session III: Voters' Campaigns. In Part IX, Abhijit Banerjee (Director, J-PAL Global) begins with an overview of what J-PAL does and what kind of work J-PAL affiliates are involved in.

Communicating Inventiveness

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:05:38 GMT

The Shape of Sound

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:05:38 GMT

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CIS Starr Forum 10/22/12

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:30:13 GMT

James Rojas, "Personal History/Public Space"

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:30:13 GMT

http://civic.mit.edu/blog/kanarinka/participatory-urban-planning-with-james-rojas

James Rojas will walk us through the methodology and the finding and lessons learned from over the 200 workshops he has facilitated.

Rojas is an urban planner, community activist, and artist. He is one of the few nationally recognized urban planners to examine U.S. Latino cultural influences on urban design. He holds a Master of City Planning and a Master of Science of Architecture Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His influential thesis on the Latino built environment has been widely cited.

Mr. Rojas developed a new method of community engagement for planning that targets youth, immigrants, and women. It has been highly successful and replicated. He has facilitate over 250 interactive workshops and created over 50 interactive urban diorama across the country. He has collaborated with municipalities, non-profits, educational institutions, museums and galleries to educate the public on urban planning.

Onboard View from an Unmanned, Semi-Autonomous Ground Vehicle

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:06:00 GMT

SpokenMedia at T4E 2010 Conference

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:06:00 GMT

Brandon Muramatsu presented on SpokenMedia at the Technology for Education 2010 Conference in Mumbai, India on July 1, 2010.

Astrophysics Colloquium - Morning Sessions

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:05:59 GMT

Homeostasis

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:05:59 GMT

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SpokenMedia Player

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:05:59 GMT

Demo of the first pass of a video player for SpokenMedia that integrates video playback and transcript display.

Dancing in the Public Square: Street Music as Activism

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:30:10 GMT

Members of Somerville's Honk! Festival organizing committee discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by this seven-year-old activist street music festival, the nation-wide street-band movement it has nurtured, and its implications for other political movements.

John Bell is a member of the Honk! organizing committee and Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut. He is recognized as an expert on the history, practice and theory of puppet and object performance, and is the author of many books and articles on the subject. A member of Great Small Works theater company of Brooklyn, he currently teaches at Boston College. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT from 2007 to 2010, and an affiliate at MIT's Program in Art, Culture, and Technology from 2010 to 2011.

Reebee Garofalo is Professor Emeritus at UMass Boston, where he taught for 33 years. He is an internationally known scholar of popular music studies, who has written and edited numerous articles and books on popular music including Rockin’ The Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements. His most recent book is Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA. At the local level, Garofalo serves on the organizing committee for the HONK! Festival, an annual gathering of activist street bands, and enjoys drumming and marching with its host band, the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band.

E2 Presentations - 8/4/12 (Session 1)

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:30:10 GMT

E2 Presentations - 8/4/12 (Session 2)

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:30:10 GMT

Soapbox: Climate and Conflict - Is America Profiting from Climate Change?

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:30:10 GMT

Professor John Reilly, Tuesday, October 16, 2012

LGO Overview Video

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:05:28 GMT

Program Overview and Welcome

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:05:28 GMT

Program Overview, Michellana Jester, MIT Sloan

Welcome, Dave Schmittlein, MIT Sloan

Sherry Fu Improving computer literacy at HIV clinics

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:04:57 GMT

Brint Markle Changing lives in Thailand

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:05:41 GMT

Yuchen Feng UGC Grant Candidate

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:05:41 GMT

Jordan Downey Community Built Kitchen

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:05:14 GMT

Jordan Downey Community Built Kitchen v 2

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:05:14 GMT

Protect Your Computer from Malware (courtesy of OnGuardOnline.gov)

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:30:12 GMT

Malware is short for "malicious software." It includes viruses and spyware that get installed on your computer or mobile device without your consent. These programs can cause your device to crash and can be used to monitor and control your online activity. Learn more about how to avoid, detect, and get rid of malware.

Soapbox - Climate and Conflict

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:05:25 GMT

Chiang C. Mei Lecture in Applied Mechanics

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:30:12 GMT

Julian Hunt

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Fluid Mechanics and Public Policy - Environmental impacts and change

Understanding the Arab Uprisings in their Second Year: From National Humiliation to Legitimacy

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:30:12 GMT

Speaker:
Rami Khouri
Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut

Hosted by the Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar Series

Co-sponsored with the Center for International Studies

Mahron: Strong Towns: Rising From the Ashes of Suburbia

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:05:27 GMT

Date: Monday, October 15, 6:00 PM, 10-485

Title: Strong Towns: Rising From the Ashes of Suburbia
Speaker: Charles Marohn (Executive Director, Strong Towns)
The New Urban Interface
Hosted by DUSP Visiting Scholar Aaron Napartek
Fall 2012 City Design and Development Forum
MIT DUSP CDD

Strategies for Evolution and Sustenance of Network Ecosystem - Saujanya Shrivastava, SDM '11 Senior Product Manager, Amazon

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:30:13 GMT

About the Presentation

Managing a network platform business can be a complex proposition for the platform owner due to various intricacies that are associated with it. These platforms have distinct users, each having exclusive needs and requirements. Also, success of one side is closely interlinked to the success of the other.

This webinar attempts to implode various aspects of network platforms, helps to develop the understanding of the core concepts and develops key strategies for success of such platforms. It also shows that strategies involved in managing successful network platforms are different from those involved in managing legacy products, and only those companies that are able to understand these key differences are able to successfully create a vibrant ecosystem around the platform.

About the Speaker

Saujanya Shrivastava, technology enthusiast and SDM'11 alumnus, currently works as a senior product manager at Amazon, based out of Seattle. At Amazon, he is involved in bridging the gap between business needs and technology innovation, helping Amazon to provide the highest level of customer experience at an optimal cost.

While Saujanya completed his master's degree in Engineering and Management in the SDM Program, he worked as a strategy consultant in the MIT Center of Digital Business, where he consulted SAP on its next generation platform strategy based on on-demand cloud services. Prior to MIT, he worked in telecom industry for nine years in Europe and Asia and earned an MS in Software Engineering from University of Oxford, UK.

About the Series

The MIT System Design and Management Program Systems Thinking Webinar Series features research conducted by SDM faculty, alumni, students, and industry partners. The series is designed to disseminate information on how to employ systems thinking to address engineering, management, and socio-political components of complex challenges.

Susskind on Job Negotiation

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:30:12 GMT

Democratic People's Republic of Chibikart

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:03 GMT

remixed for easy manufacturing and assembly! see http://www.instructables.com/id/Chibikart-Rapid-Prototyping-a-Subminiature-Electr/

Democratic People's Republic of Chibikart: Garage Hoonage

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:03 GMT

mayhem in N4

Learning from Nature: Bacterial light harvesting antennas and perspectives for new organic materials for solar cells

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:03 GMT

MIT Energy Initiative Seminar Series

Speaker

Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Abstract

Green-sulfur bacteria is a remarkable organism that can carry out photosynthesis in low-light conditions such as those present in the bottom of the ocean or moonlight. In this talk, geared for a general scientific audience, I will describe my group's efforts to understand how this organism harvests sunlight so efficiently. I will proceed to describe the possible implications of these light-harvesting mechanisms for enhancing energy transport in organic materials. I will end by briefly discussing our screening efforts for materials for organic solar cells using computer time from distributed donors around the world.

About the Speaker

Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik is currently Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, where he started his independent career in 2006. Alán received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1999. He received the Gabino Barreda Medal from UNAM, which prizes the top achiever in each field of study. After receiving his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, under Professor William A. Lester, Jr., he was a postdoctoral scholar in the group of Martin Head-Gordon at UC Berkeley from 2005-2006.

Professor Aspuru-Guzik carries out research at the interface of quantum information and chemistry. In particular, he is interested in the use of quantum computers and dedicated quantum simulators for chemical systems. He has studied the role of quantum coherence in excitonic energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes, and developed methodology for studying the spectroscopy of molecules in nanoscale environments. He and his group recently developed a density functional theory for open quantum systems. He leads the Clean Energy Project: a distributed computing effort for screening renewable energy materials.

In 2009, Professor Aspuru-Guzik recently received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award and the Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2010, he received the Everett-Mendelsson Graduate Mentoring Award and received the HP Outstanding Junior Faculty award by the Computers in Chemistry division of the American Chemical Society. In the same year, he was selected as a Top Innovator Under 35 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review magazine.

LGO Ambassador Day and Information Evening: Monday, November 5, 2012

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:03 GMT

Each year, MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) hosts a special day of events when prospective applicants can spend a full day at LGO and learn more about the program. This year, LGO Ambassador Day and Information Evening will take place on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. In this video, Tacy Napolillo and Jane Guertin, LGO '14, invite prospective applicants to attend and show some highlights from their first summer as LGO students.

Finding a Good Postdoc

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:02 GMT

Are you considering a career in academia? Are you seeking to diversify your research skills before launching into an industry career? Perhaps you are already a postdoc, and wish to maximize your experience or make a change. This panel presentation will discuss various aspects of finding, selecting, and having a good postdoc experience, and will include a question and answer segment.

George Lakoff: The Brain's Politics--How Campaigns Are Framed and Why

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:02 GMT

Grad School 101 - Finding Your Path

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:02 GMT

Marilyn Wilson from Global Education and Career Development talks about professional and academic development during your career at MIT.

Grad School 101 - Graduate Student Council

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:02 GMT

A representative from the Graduate Student Council talks about who the GSC is, what they do and how to get involved.

Grad School 101 - The Graduate

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:02 GMT

The Editor-in-Chief of the Graduate Student Newsletter discusses how to get involved with the newsletter as a means of reaching out to the Graduate Student Community.

GSC Professional Skills Seminar: Writing a Successful Graduate Fellowship Proposal

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:02 GMT

Thinking of applying for a graduate fellowship to get funds for your research and enhance your CV? Learn about how to find out what fellowships are available and how to put together a successful application. Speakers include professors, postdocs, and students who have won fellowships, from disciplines including CSAIL, HST, Engineering, and Physics.

Math Prize for Girls 2012 Awards Ceremony - Entertainment

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:02 GMT

The MIT Logarhythms

The MIT Cheerleading Squad

The Brain's Politics: How Campaigns are Framed and Why

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:05:02 GMT

Primary sponsor: The imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab.

Astrophysics Colloquium - Walter Lewin

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:30:10 GMT

Kristen Lindeman

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:30:09 GMT

"Aha moments" for LGOs at MIT

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:30:10 GMT

MIT Leaders for Global Operations students Jane Guertin '14 and Tacy Napolillo '14 talk about the amazing experience of learning directly from world-renowned experts like Andrew Lo, and then "seeing the classroom come alive" thanks to plant tours and other exposure to LGO partner companies like Amgen. Jane describes how within weeks of learning Little's Law in her operations class, she saw it in practice at Amgen's Rhode Island facility.

As Tacy says, at MIT "the expectation is that I will take this knowledge out into the world and make a difference." Like other LGO students, Jane and Tacy have discovered during their first few months on the program that LGO's partnership with industry makes the program a constant action learning experience.

The power of the LGO alumni network

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:30:10 GMT

The power of the LGO alumni network starts well before students arrive on campus. Jane Guertin, LGO '14, describes how she met an LGO alum at a career fair the year she applied who connected her the very next day to two LGO staff members, who then connected her with a current student who spent an hour with her on the phone. "This was before I was even an MIT student, and just the fact that they spent so much time with someone who might be an LGO student was an unbelievable feeling." The alumna, the LGO staff members, and the student in the year above Jane remain contacts today, and Jane says she is excited to be part of the LGO alumni network throughout her career.

The "MIT Factor" for LGOs

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:30:09 GMT

The "MIT factor" means constantly being inspired by faculty, alumni and peers to go beyond what you thought was possible. Jane Guertin, LGO '14, says that coming to MIT this year fulfilled a dream she had had since second grade. As she says, "my classmates are incredibly successful and driven, but humble and inspiring. Being around them makes you want to do better and do more." And she is impressed that at such a leading research institution, she has become "so close to faculty in just a few months…there is an unbelievable sense of community here, and I can't imagine being anywhere else."

For Tacy Napolillo, LGO '14, MIT represents an unbelievable array of opportunities. For example, she says, "I'm interested in the healthcare industry, and I've been given many opportunities to meet and talk with leaders in this field." LGO students partake in, and contribute to, the incredible value of the MIT community and network.

2.003 Deriving Equations of Motion - A

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:05:29 GMT

2.003 Deriving Equations of Motion - B

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:05:29 GMT

2.003 Intermediate Frames

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:05:29 GMT

Academia, Industry or Both?

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:05:28 GMT

Are you trying to decide between academia and industry? David Weitz, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard; Lita Nelsen, Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office; and Annalisa Weigel, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, will be sharing their experience and insight on making this decision. Hear their stories about going in and out of both academia and industry and the challenges, decisions and successes they encountered in either direction.

This program is part of the annual popular summer Academic Career Series: “Academia, Industry or Both?” Sponsored by the Graduate Student Council, Global Education and Career Development and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost.

Grad School 101 - The Tech

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:05:28 GMT

Jessica Pourain from The Tech talks about how to get involved with the campus-wide newspaper.

Picower Faculty Member Dr. Weifeng Xu

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:30:13 GMT

Fast Processes

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:05:26 GMT

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Mujid S. Kazimi - National Academy of Engineering Ceremony

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:05:26 GMT

Alumni Leadership Conference 2012 - Maximizing Your MIT Network Capital

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:30:10 GMT

K-12 STEM and FIRST: How to Engage Your Club, Class or Group in Robotics

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:30:10 GMT

C3E: Challenges and Opportunities for Energy Policy

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:05:03 GMT

C3E: Issue Framing - Susan Tierney

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:05:03 GMT

One-dimensional Spatial Stability Analysis Example

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:30:13 GMT

Alumni Leadership Conference 2012 - Welcome by President Rafael Reif

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:05:37 GMT

Alumni Leadership Conference 2012 - MIT Finances and Fundraising Updates

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:05:36 GMT

Seth Alexander and Israel Ruiz SM'01

The '00s

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:30:11 GMT

Chair: Andy Liu

Co-Chair: Kevin Duda and Alan Natapoff

Panelists: Allen Atamer Kristen Bethke (Wendell) Jessica Edmonds (Duda) Anton Aboukhalil Jessica Marques Thomas Jarchow

Managing for Profit: Five Building Blocks of Success

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:30:12 GMT

About the Presentation

In this webinar, MIT Senior Lecturer Jonathan Byrnes explains the five building blocks of success in profitability management: (1) organizing for success; (2) leading paradigmatic change; (3) developing a great middle management team; (4) creating major change in a customer or supplier; and (5) becoming a great leader. The webinar contains a number of case examples.

About the Speaker

Jonathan Byrnes is Senior Lecturer at MIT, where he has taught at the graduate level and in executive programs for nearly twenty years. He has authored over two hundred books, articles, cases, notes, and expert submissions, including Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink, which Inc.com named to its 2010 list of Best Books for Business Owners.

He is President of Jonathan Byrnes & Co., a focused consulting company which has advised over fifty major companies, hospitals, and industry associations since 1976. Dr. Byrnes has led a number of projects that have produced high value and lasting innovations, including direct development of vendor managed inventory, pipeline inventory systems, and profit mapping.

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Jeff Carbone, MIT Sloan Admissions, Application Tips on the New Optional Supplemental Essay

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:04:44 GMT

Jeff Carbone, Associate Director of MIT Sloan Admissions, will share more information about how to use the new supplemental optional essay and the mediums and formats that you may submit. For more information about the new supplemental optional essay: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/admissions/apply-here/instructions/

The Future of U.S. Solar Photovoltaic Technology - Tonio Buonassisi - MIT Club of Northern California

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:12:02 GMT

The solar photovoltaic (PV) industry continues to grow, despite intense international competition and recent margin compression.

Can innovation in technology and manufacturing allow American companies to compete and ultimately thrive in this huge but challenging market?

Professor Buonassisi will address these questions as he explores the outlook for American PV cell and module suppliers. He will begin by using an industry-validated bottoms-up cost model to compare the cost-reduction potentials of various innovative PV technologies, and how their successful development could influence manufacturing location decisions. He will also describe recent progress toward these innovative technologies, highlighting the new computational and experimental tools that have accelerated the cycle of discovery and product development — providing “sneak peeks” at the technologies that may grace rooftops in years to come. He will conclude by showcasing recent success stories of U.S. innovation.

Join us as Professor Buonassisi explains how technology innovation will open up pathways for success in the U.S. solar PV industry.

Tonio Buonassisi, MIT Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, heads an interdisciplinary research laboratory focused on photovoltaics (PV). He completed his Ph.D. in Applied Science & Technology at UC Berkeley, with additional research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and the Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics. He is author of over a hundred journal papers, and co-developer of a dedicated course on photovoltaics.

Prof. Buonassisi invents, develops, and applies defect-engineering techniques over the entire solar cell process, from crystal growth to modules, improving the cost effectiveness of commercial and next-generation solar cells. Several of his PV innovations have been implemented in industry, including key contributions leading to the founding of solar start-ups and a research institute.

Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:30:12 GMT

MIT researchers describe a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.

Lecture 4: Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and House of Quality

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:12 GMT

This lecture demonstrates Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methods, and more specifically the House of Quality diagram, to identify and manage design tradeoffs, using the example of a hypothetical new car design. There are no notes for this lecture, which is chalkboard-based.

Lecture 7: Qualitative Optimization of CaC2/Acetylene Block Diagram

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:12 GMT

This lecture is a sample of how to optimize a system block diagram. After summarizing the goal and initial results from the previous session, this lecture works through refinements in materials, thermal design, flow rates, environmental rules, etc.

Core Sub-task Presentation II

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:11 GMT

The student team designing the reactor core and secondary system gives its 2nd progress report, describing successive iterations of the lead cooled fast reactor and remaining steps for the final month of class.

Lecture 1: Core - Nonconventional (Non-PWR/BWR) Reactors

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:11 GMT

This lecture surveys the nuclear reactor core types that might be used for the project design, after a brief survey of key system design parameters.

Lecture 2: Process Heat - Major Challenges

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:11 GMT

This lecture on Process Heat covers the three heat challenges: heat exchanger design, heat transport, and heat storage. The video starts with a few minutes reviewing the project team structure, roles, and goals.

Biofuels Sub-task Presentation II

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:10 GMT

The student team designing the biofuels subsystem gives its 2nd progress report, describing their block diagram, key parameters, and remaining steps for the final month of class.

Lecture 17: Theories of Consciousness that Neuroscientists Take Seriously

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:10 GMT

Topics: Theories of Consciousness that Neuroscientists Take Seriously - Theories of Consciousness - Explanatory gap - First order and higher order difference - Transitivity principle - Ambitious vs. Modest higer order - Ambitious higher order theory - Neuroscience - Psychology Instructor: Prof. Ned Block

Final Project Presentation

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:09 GMT

At the end of the term, the class presents its project to other faculty and students.

Lecture 12: The Imagery Debate: The Role of the Brain

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:04:09 GMT

Topics: The Imagery Debate: The Role of the Brain - Imagery - Visual mental images - Sensory input - Memory - Depictive representation - Propositional representation - Processing systems - Spatial medium - Visual cortex - Neural systems Instructor: Prof. Stephen Kosslyn

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