Unbound symposium: The Xenotext, So Far with Christian Bök ...
Unbound symposium: The Xenotext, So Far with Christian Bök (May 3)
Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookThe Xenotext, So Far with Christian BökWe started the event with a kick-off reading, co-sponsored with Purple Blurb, featuring experimental poet Christian Bök, who has striven for ten years to engineer an ...
Unbound symposium: Unbinding the Book (May 4)
Unbound symposium: Unbinding the Book (May 4)
Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookUnbinding the BookParticipants: Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), James Reid-Cunningham (Boston Athenaeum), Wyn Kelley (MIT Literature), Mary Fuller (MIT Literature)Moderator: Gretchen Henderson (MIT ...
Building (and using) Big Digital Libraries - John Unsworth
Building (and using) Big Digital Libraries - John Unsworth
John Unsworth discusses the recent formation of large-scale, collaborative digital libraries and the challenges and opportunities they pose for researchers seeking to use and study their collections. He describes the various challenges facing the new kinds of ...
Building (and using) Big Digital Libraries - Paul N. Courant
Building (and using) Big Digital Libraries - Paul N. Courant
Paul N. Courant discusses the recent formation of large-scale, collaborative digital libraries and the challenges and opportunities they pose for researchers seeking to use and study their collections. He explains the interconnected genesis of the Google Project, the ...
Building (and using) Big Digital Libraries - Q&A
Building (and using) Big Digital Libraries - Q&A
With Paul N. Courant & John Unsworth. Recorded on 5/25/12 at the MIT Faculty Club.
BOOKISH: Artist books from the collection of the Rotch ...
BOOKISH: Artist books from the collection of the Rotch Library of ...
Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning Guest curator: Samuel Ray Jacobson, MIT SMArchS ’13, History Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art On view April 20-June 10, 2012 Video for the exhibit created in conjunction with the symposium ...
Matthew Hutson: The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
Matthew Hutson: The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
Matthew Hutson's talk on his book "The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep us Happy, Healthy, and Sane" at MIT May 14, 2012. Introduction by Alan Lightman. Read more about Matthew Hutson on the Graduate Program in Science Writing's website: ...
Electronic Literature and Future Books
Communications Forum: Electronic Literature and Future Books
How has electronic literature influenced other media, including the Web and the book? What are the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art
The MIT Science Fiction Society
The MIT Science Fiction Society
MIT’s Science Fiction Society curates an enormous library containing more than 90 percent of all English language science fiction ever published.
Gruber's comic book on health care
MIT economist Gruber clarifies health care law in a comic book
Gruber, a key architect of Massachusetts health reform, uses a visual, comic book-style narrative to make the case for the national health law.
Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail
It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers, from ancient Rome to the modern Soviet Union, expand and then collapse? From Adam Smith and Max ...
Unique languages, universal patterns
Unique languages, universal patterns
Under the surface, English and Japanese have deep similarities, as MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa argues in his new book, Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order.
Dynamic Economic Systems
Dynamic Economic Systems
Conversation with Nicholas Ashford, a professor of technology and policy in MIT's School of Engineering.
Leveraging Human Capital
Leveraging Human Capital
Conversation with Nicholas Ashford, a professor of technology and policy in MIT's School of Engineering.
Unlocking Energy Innovation (podcast)
Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build A Low-Cost, Low-Carbon ...
Prof. Richard Lester
IPC Forum on Energy Innovation
IPC Forum on Energy Innovation
The IPC Forum on Energy Innovation discussed key ideas from the new book Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System by Richard K. Lester and David M. Hart. Speakers:Richard K. Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head of the Department of ...
Unlocking Energy Innovation :: Richard K. Lester
Unlocking Energy Innovation :: Richard K. Lester
Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, ...
For the Love of Physics
Walter Lewin - For The Love of Physics
Professor of Physics Emeritus Walter Lewin performing his most famous physics demonstrations on the occasion of the publication of his new book, FOR THE LOVE OF PHYSICS: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders
Simon Johnson on 13 Bankers
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Simon Johnson warns in a new book that a "new financial oligarchy" threatens not only the nation's economy, but its political core.