MIT's Student Loan Art Program

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:33:59 GMT

Through this popular annual loan program, individual students and student groups may borrow original works of art from the collection for their private rooms and communal spaces.

MIT's automated 'coach' helps with social interactions

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:08:56 GMT

Social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and surveys show that public speaking is high on the list of such phobias. For some people, these fears of social situations can be especially acute: For example, individuals with Asperger's syndrome often have difficulty making eye contact and reacting appropriately to social cues. But with appropriate training, such difficulties can often be overcome.

Now, new software developed at MIT can be used to help people practice their interpersonal skills until they feel more comfortable with situations such as a job interview or a first date. The software, called MACH (short for My Automated Conversation coacH), uses a computer-generated onscreen face, along with facial, speech, and behavior analysis and synthesis software, to simulate face-to-face conversations. It then provides users with feedback on their interactions.

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/automated-coach-could-help-with-social-interactions-0614.html
M. Ehsan Hoque: http://web.media.mit.edu/~mehoque/

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How to Create a B2B Content Marketing Strategy

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:31:40 GMT

Sharmila C. Chatterjee, senior lecturer in marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to create a smart content marketing strategy.

Predicting the popularity of tweets

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:31:23 GMT

Tauhid Zaman, assistant professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to predict the popularity of a Twitter post.

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Trust Frameworks and Asymptotic Identity Proofing: A Systems Approach

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:31:32 GMT

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Exploding Wire

Fri, 31 May 2013 20:31:23 GMT

A 100uF capacitor is charged to 3kV (450 joules) and then discharged through a thin iron wire, causing it to explode.

Money to Burn

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:02 GMT

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The old adage takes on new meaning . . . with the help of a little flash paper and isopropanol. (No money was harmed during the making of this video.)

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Science is Fun and the Joy of Learning

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:02 GMT

A lecture and demonstration by Prof. Bassam Shakhashiri.

Steaming Gun

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:02 GMT

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Instructor: John Dolhuh, Jessica Harrop

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Colorful Indicators

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:01 GMT

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Colorful indicators tell the story of acids, bases, and the places in between.

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Let It Snow

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:01 GMT

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Discover what disposable diapers and fake snow have in common.

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Midas' Magic

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:01 GMT

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Mix these two clear and colorless liquids—that both look just like water—and the result is anything but clear and colorless.

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Mirror Mirror

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:01 GMT

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Mix two mystery ingredients with some table sugar, and the result is . . . mirror, mirror, fairest of them all.

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Bringin' Home the Bacon

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:00 GMT

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Dr. John Dolhun is hungry, but the bacon he’s got on the griddle isn’t for him. It’s for Bromine.

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Death of a Gummy Bear

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:00 GMT

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A gummy bear may not be big, but its few grams of sugar contain a lot of energy. Find out how much by combusting one lone gummy in a test tube.

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Elements on Fire

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:00 GMT

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Discover what happens when you burn different elements of the periodic table…

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Let's Drink To That

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:08:00 GMT

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Dr. John Dolhun is thirsty. But when he asks his assistant for a drink, he gets more than he bargained for…

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Anatomy of a Glowstick

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:07:59 GMT

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Discover the colorful chemistry that makes a good party glow.

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Briggs-Rauscher Reaction

Fri, 31 May 2013 07:07:59 GMT

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Mix these three colorless liquids and you get a chemical reaction that can tell time.

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The Hairdryer and the Ping Pong Ball

Thu, 30 May 2013 17:31:00 GMT

This video explains the fluid mechanics principles underlying the classic classroom demonstration of a ping pong ball suspended in the air stream of a hair dryer.

Fruit Fly Fight Club

Thu, 30 May 2013 07:09:43 GMT

An exploration of aggression and depression, studying fruit flies.
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LGO Webinar: Prof. Zeynep Ton on "How Operations Break the Retail Trade-Off Between Low Prices and Good Jobs"

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:10:33 GMT

How have retailers such as Costco and Trader Joe's achieved industry-leading profits and growth while treating their employees as assets to be maximized rather than costs to be minimized? The answer, says MIT Sloan Professor Zeynep Ton, is an "alternate philosophy" of retail that combines the operational excellence for which LGO students are trained, investment in people, and building customer trust by offering the right amount of selection.

Ton shared her ten-plus years of research on retail labor practices in a recent web seminar with the LGO community titled "How Operations Break the Trade-Off Between Low Prices and Good Jobs." Ton, an adjunct associate professor of operations management who just won an MIT Sloan award for outstanding teaching, is a key contributor to the LGO curriculum as the co-instructor of Introduction to Operations Strategy along with LGO program director Don Rosenfield.

In the webinar, Ton told the story of Janet, a Wal-Mart worker with unstable hours and a big healthcare deductible burden, as an illustration of how most retailers prefer to lower the tangible direct costs of salary and training rather than hope to benefit indirectly in the long-term through investing in staff. But it's not only staff who pay the price for this approach, but also companies and investors, Ton argued. The phenomenon of "phantom stockouts," in which customers can't find items even though they're in the store, is one effect of underinvestment in staff that hits directly at company sales and customer satisfaction.

Based on her study of companies like Costco, Trader Joe's, and Spanish supermarket Mercadona, Ton described a category of "alternate-philosophy retailers" that have led their sectors in profits and growth while also offering better conditions for workers and achieving better customer service. The key components of this alternate approach include:

o Offering fewer frills and reducing proliferation of product choices o Cross-training staff to manage variations in traffic o Operating with slack, to allow staff to be part of process and product improvement efforts o Following the lead of Toyota and other manufacturers, combining standardization while empowering employees.

Not every retailer can succeed with this approach. As Ton mentioned, even Wal-Mart tried reducing selection in 2009, but she said that doing so without adopting the other aspects of the "alternate philosophy" made the effort unsuccessful.

When asked by webinar participants how to convince executives to take this approach, Ton suggested doing local experiments in stores to gather data, then making sure that the company's values are aligned to this approach and that leaders are committed to sustain this direction.

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MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

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On May 15, 2013, 3dim earned the grand prize at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

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Introduction to Complex Systems: Patterns in Nature

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LGO Internship Impact: Noa Ben-Zvi, optimizing materials supply for surgeons at MGH

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:10:19 GMT

Noa Ben-Zvi, LGO '14 and Tel Aviv University (Electrical Engineering) '07, talks about her ongoing internship in the central sterile supply department at Massachusetts General Hospital. MGH is the top-ranked hospital in the USA and has had a partnership with MIT for seven years. In Noa's project, she is looking at the material preferences that surgeons request for different procedures, as part of an effort to reduce waste, lower variability, and ensure efficient material supply throughout the hospital. Noa discusses how she has applied her LGO summer coursework as well as her Electrical Engineering studies to the data analysis challenges in her project. For Noa, being part of a team of MIT faculty and students and MGH doctors, nurses, and administrators has been a great experience and gives her the ability to implement her project's findings once they are complete.

LGO Internship Impact: Ben Polak helps Nike customize inventory strategies

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:10:14 GMT

Ben Polak, LGO '14 and Haverford College (Physics) '07, describes his ongoing LGO internship at Nike in Beaverton, Oregon. Ben's project focuses on Nike's retail replenishment process, in particular how they can customize their inventory strategy to deal with the increasing complexity of their global manufacturing and distribution network. Ben discusses how two courses from his LGO summer curriculum--Systems Optimization and Introduction to Optimization--are proving to be critical support on a daily basis for his exploration of the project. In addition, his course on Logistics Systems allowed him to learn modeling and techniques and theories that he can now apply to real-world data with real implications for the company. So far, Ben says, his "most interesting findings are subtle understandings of how demand really happens for the company, as well as the real costs of their current inventory strategies." Ben says that his work will allow Nike "to get a firm understanding of the costs and service level implications of their policies going forward as they work to satisfy consumer demand."

LGO Internship Impact: Gold Truong at Amazon's outbound transportation

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:10:09 GMT

Gold Truong, LGO '14 and Columbia University (Applied Mathematics) '08, talks about her ongoing internship project at Amazon in Seattle. Gold is working in Amazon's outbound transportation area. She describes her project as very quantitative. It draws on her logistic systems course (taught by Gold's faculty advisor Chris Caplice), especially for forecasting; her LGO Operations Management course (taught by Karen Zheng), helping her think through physical processes and cycle times; and a lot of statistics to see variability among lanes within the Amazon network. After her first two terms of coursework, Gold said she felt well-prepared for the challenge of her Amazon project. "LGO does a fantastic job of giving us the right tools...I am much more prepared for this than I was prior to LGO." Gold said she felt valued for the contribution she could make the company, even as an intern. "I'm looking forward to handing this off to Amazon...they are interested in what I have to say academically and in practical terms. It's a strength of both Amazon and LGO that they have built a partnership that allows students to come in and do what we do."

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2013 GlobalHealth Lab Highlight Video

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:08:30 GMT

This video was created by Ariella Dagi. It is a compilation of photos and video taken by the MIT Sloan School of Management GlobalHealth Lab (15.S07) students while onsite at their project hosts in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. During the course the students spend two weeks onsite and 4 months off-site applying management skills, tools, and approaches to address health care delivery problems. To learn more, visit: www.globalhealth.mit.edu

A World Without Friction

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Vectors

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Jesper Juul: 'Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player'

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New Research on the Brain - Prof. James DiCarlo

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In this Faculty Forum Online broadcast, Professor James DiCarlo, head of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, comments on the department's pioneering work.

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Cooking up rocks in MIT's Experimental Petrology Lab

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