MARK WEST: Heavy Light - Finding Biomimetic Construction
MARK WEST: Heavy Light - Finding Biomimetic Construction
Feb 9, 2012Concrete has been formed in rigid molds since its invention in Ancient Rome. Very recently however, the possibility of a new architectural and structural language has emerged based on the use of flexible fabric formworks that are shaped by an internal ...
Phil Freelon discusses "REACH"
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
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation - Kevin Surace - MIT Club of Northern ...
How Inc Magazine's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year built a clean energy company Hear CEO Kevin Surace describe how he injected his entrepreneurial clean tech vision to create the most innovative company ever to hit the building materials industry. How did Serious Energy ...
Cheap, Efficient Solar
Cheap, Efficient Solar
Harry Atwater, the founder of a new startup called Alta Devices, outlines his plans to make solar affordable.
MechE Building 35 Lab
MechE Building 35 Lab
A video tour of the Building 35 Lab, which is used for manufacturing in MechE coursework and research.
Rebuilding Haiti
Rebuilding Haiti
10/29/2010 4:00 PM 34"101Paul Farmer, Founder, Partners in HealthDescription: Difficult as it is to look beyond the acute misery of Haiti's current crisis, Paul Farmer proposes that aid agencies and others concerned with rebuilding focus on the nation's "old, chronic problems." There's no ...
Leveraging Science, Developing Innovation: The MIT Center ...
Leveraging Science, Developing Innovation: The MIT Center for Real Estate
The MIT Center for Real Estate celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
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, ...
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design ...
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design of Materials ...
03/30/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Krystyn Van Vliet, Ph.D. '02, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and EngineeringDescription: Our conversations on sustainable transportation typically begin with a review of vehicle efficiencies, and end with the ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
03/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Joseph Sussman, J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing ...
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
03/01/2010 4:45 PM Wong AuditoriumJerry Mechling, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School; Nick Grossman, Director of Civic Works, The Open Planning Project; Laurel Ruma, Editor, O'Reilly Media; John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Fndtn; Chris ...
Rebuilding Haiti
Rebuilding Haiti
02/23/2010 4:00 PM Bartos theaterCherie Moit Abbanat, Lecture, Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Architecture, MIT; Michel DeGraff, Associate Professor of Linguistics, MIT; Erica James, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT; Dale Joachim, Visiting Scientist, ...
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World ...
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World and for MIT
02/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, and; Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Description: Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds' growing population. ...
Liberty by Design
Liberty by Design
Alan Davidson returns to the questions of the impact of public policy on the way technology is evolving in the Internet space.
The State of Drupal
The State of Drupal
Dries Buytaert relates a synopsis of his life with Drupal from its inception while a "typical geek" undergraduate in Antwerp in 1999 to the upcoming release of Drupal 7.
Challenges in Nation Building
Challenges in Nation Building
09/29/2009 2:30 PM 10"250President José Ramos"Horta, President, East Timor, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize LaureateDescription: At times humorous and defiant, JoséRamos"Horta describes nurturing the 21st century's first sovereign state through its formative years. The journey of East ...
Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained
Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained
05/19/2009 6:00 PM MuseumMarc Baldo, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceDescription: Researchers are well along in designing a highly efficient, inexpensive solar cell, ...
Values"Based Leadership
Values"Based Leadership
03/03/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumRobert McDonald, COO, Procter & GambleDescription: A West Point start, army career, and a disciplined approach to distilling key life experiences has guided Robert McDonald through his 20 years at Procter & Gamble. McDonald recommends a deliberate system of ...