Technology and Humanity in the 21st Century

03/28/2001 TaiwanMichael Dertouzos, Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer ScienceAbout the Speaker(s): The late Professor Michael L. Dertouzos was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and the Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer ...

TalkBack 360: Science on Trial


Rebuilding Credibility in the Face of Natural Disaster
: After the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake struck the Italian region of Abruzzo, killing more than 300 people, six seismologists were convicted of manslaughter. Nearly three years later, the city is still rebuilding. In this event ...

Suzanne Seitinger: LightBridge at FAST Light 2011

In 1916, MIT crossed the river from its original location in Boston's Back Bay to Cambridge, taking up residence on the banks of the Charles. Since then, generations of students have trekked across the bridge, including Oliver Smoot and his fraternity brothers, who ...

Slipstream Public Exchange

Associate Professor Meejin Yoon and her partner Eric Höweler have won an open competition to design a new headquarters for the Boston Society of Architects on Boston's waterfront. Animation by Squared Design Limited

SENSEable cities

Assaf Biderman, co-director of the MIT SENSEable City Laboratory, discusses his lab's work.

Seascape Urbanism: Conserving Port Cities in Al Khalij

A K P I A @ M I T     3 0 T H   A N N I V E R S A R Y   A LU M N I   R E U N I O NSeascape Urbanism: Conserving Port Cities in Al KhalijSamia Rab - American University of Sharjah

RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Vincent W.S. Chan

Chan discusses research and education in his group.

Reason #37 Why Architecture is a great major: Rapid Prototyping

The first of [hopefully] many videos highlighting MIT's Architecture department and its resources. This video shows the production of a topographic site model for a design project I'm working on. A 3D model was created in AutoCAD, then broken down into layers and cut ...

Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology

10/01/2010 11:00 AM e14"633Tony Ciochetti, Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate; John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, ...

Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City

12/06/2005 5:30 PM BartosWilliam J. Mitchell, Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences ; Director, Smart Cities research group, MIT Media LabDescription: The evolution of architecture resembles nothing so much as the fleshing out and ...

Panel: MIT CAU Infrastructural Monument

Open House: An introduction to HTC

History, Theory and Criticism Program of Architecture and Art.

Nick Gelpi: Unflat Pavilion/Feather-Weight House at FAST Light 2011

A freestanding pavilion, created by flexing two dimensions into three, this house deploys a fabrication system used to create a membrane, which is simultaneously structural, functional and representational in a single act. Entirely constructed of laminated plywood, an ...

New Technologies for Interpreting and Representing a Medieval Islamic ...

A K P I A @ M I T     30TH   ANNIVERSARY   ALUMNI   REUNIONNew Technologies for Interpreting and Representing a Medieval Islamic Suburban VillaGlaire Anderson - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Networks Understanding Networks, Pt. 12: Neri Oxman

Fabricating Networks: Notes on Biologically Inspired Design — Neri Oxman