CO2GO
CO2GO
A project by the SENSEable City Lab, MIT. Today, more than a third of global CO2 emissions are generated by transportation. CO2GO, a new type of smartphone application, is an effective tool that assists in making smarter individual transportation choices to collectively reduce carbon ...
The 'Artificial Leaf'
The 'Artificial Leaf'
An "artificial leaf" made by Daniel Nocera and his team, using a silicon solar cell with novel catalyst materials bonded to its two sides, is shown in a container of water with light (simulating sunlight) shining on it. The light generates a flow of electricity that causes the water molecules, ...
Installing the Dev Desktop as a Drupal development ...
Installing the Dev Desktop as a Drupal development environment on your ...
This is a basic 3-minute screencast that covers downloading the Dev Desktop application from the Acquia website ( http://network.acquia.com/downloads/7.x) and installing it on your local computer.
Civic Media Session: "Design for Vulnerable Populations"
Civic Media Session: "Design for Vulnerable Populations"
Designers often want to help people that they perceive as being in need -- whether those affected by natural or human-caused disasters, the economically or physically disadvantaged, or those who are on the losing end of a cultural power dynamic. However, naive ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
04/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJohn Reilly, Co"director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management ; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Ronald Prinn, SCD '71, TEPCO ...
A Method for Green Design -- Professor Steven Eppinger
A Method for Green Design -- Professor Steven Eppinger
LGO Web Seminar Series Professor Steven Eppinger A Method for Green Design Presentation Date: April 30, 2010 Abstract: When LFM/LGO and SDM alumni took my Product Design and Development class, we did not teach a method for design for environment (DFE). This ...
Technology Day 1993 - "Riding the Wave of Innovation: The ...
Technology Day 1993 - "Riding the Wave of Innovation: The Ocean and MIT"
MIT's 1993 Technology Day, on the theme "Riding the Wave of Innovation: The Ocean and MIT," takes place on June 4, 1993. Speakers featured in the morning symposium include Sylvia Earle, "Exploring the Ocean with Unmanned Vehicles;" Robert Spindel, "Measuring the Ocean ...
Sloan Energy Finance Forum (2010)
Sloan Energy Finance Forum (2010)
This video was produced for the 2010 Sloan Energy Finance Forum, which was titled "The Life Cycle of Energy Finance." Held on December 3, 2010, the forum focused on the big picture of financing energy projects. This event was sponsored by the MIT Sloan Energy & Environment Club.
The Response to the Gulf Oil Spill
The Response to the Gulf Oil Spill
This talk was given on December 14, 2010 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. Juliette Kayyem was the Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the Department of Homeland Security. Rear Admiral Peter Neffenger was the Deputy National Incident Commander for the Deepwater Horizon Oil ...
2010 David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology
2010 David J. Rose Lectureship in Nuclear Technology
Dr. John Holdren '65 SM '66 delivers the 2010 Rose Lecture on the Energy / Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear Energy in Meeting It.
Financial Re-Engineering
Financial Re-Engineering
10/01/2010 9:00 AM e14"633Bengt Holmstrom, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics; Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering; Robert C. Merton, Ph.D. '70, MIT Sloan School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance; Jiang Wang, ...
Hines: The Man, The Company
Hines: The Man, The Company
10/01/2010 1:00 PM e14"633Gerald D. Hines, Founder and Chairman, HinesDescription: An iconic figure in real estate development, Gerald D. Hines relates lessons learned over his half"century career to an admiring industry audience. Leveraging know"how in mechanical systems and project ...
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, ...
Moving Ahead: Engineering Challenges of Deep Water Drilling ...
Moving Ahead: Engineering Challenges of Deep Water Drilling and Future Oil ...
09/28/2010 4:15 PM E14"674Andrew J. Whittle, ScD '87, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Nancy Leveson, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Roland Pellenq, Visiting Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Kim Vandiver, Dean for ...
Perspectives on the Unfolding Spill: Evidence of the ...
Perspectives on the Unfolding Spill: Evidence of the Environmental Impacts ...
09/28/2010 1:30 PM E14"674Dr. Maria T. Zuber, E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT ; ; Eric Adams, Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Elizabeth Kujawinski, Associate Scientist, ...
Planning the Response: Establishing the Impacts and ...
Planning the Response: Establishing the Impacts and Identifying the ...
09/28/2010 3:00 PM E14"674Amy Glasmeier, Department Head, Professor of Geography and Regional Planning, DUSP; Wyman Briggs, Preparedness Specialist, US Coast Guard; Earthea Nance, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, University of New Orleans) ; James Thu ...
Splendor, Destruction, and the Shift from Awe to Action in ...
Splendor, Destruction, and the Shift from Awe to Action in Environmental ...
Speaker: Jeanne Marie Kusina, Bowling Green State University. Moderator: Madeleine Clare Elish, MIT. Abstract: This presentation discusses the role of digital media in the field of environmental ethics. There is a long, rich tradition of wildlife and natural history ...
Annual Technology Day Report 2010
Annual Technology Day Report 2010
06/05/2010 KresgeDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MITDescription: Note: This video has some audio problems, which get resolved at early on with some help from an audience member, presumed to be a Course VI alum. MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT ...
The Perfect Oyster
The Perfect Oyster
The definition of a "perfect oyster" depends a lot on whether you're a fisherman or a conservationist. But can conservation efforts create an environment that will preserve everyone's perfect oyster?
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
Lunch with a Laureate: Eric Chivian
In 1978, in his last years of residency in psychiatry at Mass General Hospital, Eric Chivian decided to do something bold.