2.007 — 'the mother of all robot contests'

MIT's annual 2.007 mechanical engineering robot contest has been dubbed the mother of all robot contests.

2012 MIT Reunion Row Race

June 10, 2012 on the Charles River.Read more about the Reunion Row: http://www.mitcrew.org/reunionrow/ 

75th Anniversary of MIT Sailing, Floating Dock and Firefly Fleet Dedication

In conjunction with the 75th anniversary of sailing at MIT, DAPER dedicated a new floating dock and a fleet of Firefly sailboats at the Walter C. Wood ’17 Sailing Pavilion.

A Farewell to Geopolitics: American Grand Strategy for the New Era

On March 6, 2012, MIT Political Science Professor Stephen Van Evera offered his thoughts on American grand strategy for the new era.

A Systems View of Enabling Enterprise Change -- Mark Moran, SDM '09 ...

About the Presentation Enterprise change is hard, especially for mature, successful companies. Many of the keys to accomplishing enterprise change come from seeing the enterprise itself as a complex system. This presentation will discuss many of the ingredients ...

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Professor Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that the time is ripe for widespread rethinking of the way we interact through technology. An expert on mobile devices, social networking, and sociable robotics, she ...

Alumni Sustainability Workshop: Expanding Your Bottom Line in More than ...

An interview with Phil Freelon about "REACH"

An interview with Phil Freelon about his firm's exhibit "REACH," showing in the Wolk Gallery from Feb. 15 to June 8, 2012

Astronaut Lt. Colonel Michael Fincke Attends Reunion Via Space Link

Nothing could stop Mike Fincke (MIT '89) from joining his 15th reunion ... not even a 200-mile-high earth orbit.

Barry L. Vercoe - Oral History Interview no. 2, April 24, 2012

Oral history interview with Barry Vercoe, MIT Professor Emeritus of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founding member of the MIT Media Lab, and computer music pioneer and composer. Interviewed by Forrest Larson and Christopher Ariza, MIT Video Productions studio. Topics ...

Bioengineering at MIT: Building Bridges Between the Sciences, Engineering ...

Glycomics, the study of sugars' role in living systems, is a relative newcomer to the revolution in molecular biology. In fact, Ram Sasisekharan remembers how colleagues told him "not to work on carbohydrates — that it was useless."

Biofuels - MIT Club of Northern California

Biofuels: How Biotech is Changing the Energy Industry MIT Club of Northern California Featuring the top executives of the Bay Area's leading Biofuels companies.John Melo - CEO, AmyrisJonathan Wolfson - CEO, SolazymeBob Mayer - CEO, Cobalt TechnologiesNoubar Afeyan - ...

Bonus Video 2: The Spill | MIT ChemLab Boot Camp

One of the students spills half a bottle of urea on the laboratory floor and doesn't confess. But Ike knows who did it . . . Sign-up to follow the series: http://bit.ly/MYMkSr WARNING NOTICE:The experiments described in these materials are potentially hazardous and ...

Bonus Video 3: It's Complicated | MIT ChemLab Boot Camp

Ever wonder if MIT students have love lives?

Career Navigation at Boeing: The Sky is not the Limit! -- Victoria ...

SUMMARY For Victoria De Matteis (LGO '02), the past ten years at Boeing have been the "climb phase" in a challenging and rewarding career flight path that she recounted to LGO students and alumni in a recent web seminar called "Career Navigation at Boeing: The Sky is ...