A New Kind of Science
A New Kind of Science
09/15/2003 4:15 PM 10-250Stephen Wolfram, CEO, Wolfram Research, Inc.Description: Wouldn't it be exciting, Stephen Wolfram wonders, to have a little computer program that could function as a precise, ultimate model of our universe? If you ran the program long enough, it would reproduce every ...
"Development of the Hudson 9 Slide Rule" - MIT Museum
"Development of the Hudson 9 Slide Rule" - MIT Museum
Excerpt from an interview with Frank Adorney about U.S. Naval Academy professor James R. "Pop" Bland and the invention of a new slide rule, the Hudson 8 and the Hudson 9, prototypes of the Keuffel & Esser Deci-Lon, the last major slide rule introduced by ...
"Pop Bland and the Hudson 8/9 Slide Rule" - MIT Museum
"Pop Bland and the Hudson 8/9 Slide Rule" - MIT Museum
Excerpt from an interview with Frank Adorney about U.S. Naval Academy professor James R. "Pop" Bland and the invention of a new slide rule, the Hudson 8 and the Hudson 9, prototypes of the Keuffel & Esser Deci-Lon, the last major slide rule introduced by ...
"Pop Bland wrote the book...literally" - MIT Museum
"Pop Bland wrote the book...literally" - MIT Museum
Excerpt from an interview with Frank Adorney about U.S. Naval Academy professor James R. "Pop" Bland and the invention of a new slide rule, the Hudson 8 and the Hudson 9, prototypes of the Keuffel & Esser Deci-Lon, the last major slide rule introduced by ...
"Take Me Back To Tech" (1976)
"Take Me Back To Tech" (1976)
This film, which takes its title from a popular MIT song featured at the beginning of the piece, offers a narrative history of MIT from its Back Bay beginnings to the mid-1970s, compiled from a range of vintage film clips from the MIT film archives. It was produced in 1976 for the MIT ...
09.1: Possible Disappearance / Database Testimony
09.1: Possible Disappearance / Database Testimony
Speaker: Ben Miller, MIT. Moderator: Nick Seaver, MIT. Abstract: Visual modeling of databases, when applied to the problematic of witnessing traumatic events, offers a way to structure testimony's logical relations and text. Without the external logic offered by data ...
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.
150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Recorded Feb. 13, 2013
20"Ton Canaries: The Great Whales of the North Atlantic ...
20"Ton Canaries: The Great Whales of the North Atlantic (Keynote)
10/15/2008 7:00 PM 32"123Eric Jay Dolin, Ph.D. '95, Author: Leviathan: A History of Whaling in America; Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionDescription: This two"part lecture provides a brief illustrated journey through our whaling past, and the ...
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 1
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 1
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the ...
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 2
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 2
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the ...
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 3
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 3
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the ...
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 4
About Visualizing Cultures, Part 4
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the ...
Academic Leaders: Perspectives and Current Challenges
Academic Leaders: Perspectives and Current Challenges
03/28/2011 10:30 AM KresgeDr. Ian A. Waitz, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT ; Shirley Ann Jackson, '68, PhD '73, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Charles M. Vest, HM, MIT President Emeritus ...
After the Unrest: Ten Years of Rebuilding Los Angeles ...
After the Unrest: Ten Years of Rebuilding Los Angeles Following the Trauma ...
4/22/2002, 5:30, 10-485 William Fulton In addition to dealing with natural disasters, Los Angeles has repeatedly had to deal with social and civic unrest over the past 40 years-most recently in 1992, when widespread unrest rattled a region already afflicted with ...
Allen Hockley, Introduction to 19th Century Photography in ...
Allen Hockley, Introduction to 19th Century Photography in East Asia
Allen Hockley Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arthist/allen.html Allen Hockley is a specialist in 19th and early-20th-century photography in and about Asia; his work for VC introduces some of the pioneer commercial ...
An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch
An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch
05/08/2003 11:00 AM 10-250Gerald Sussman, Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering, MITDescription: A mechanical watch is an oscillator driven by energy stored in a mainspring. The oscillations are counted by a gear train and displayed on a conventional watch ...
An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out
An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out
12/01/2010 4:45 PM 10"250Kent Kresa, '59, '61 MS, '66 EAA, Chairman Emeritus, Northrop Grumman CorporationDescription: Returning to his freshman physics classroom after half a century, Kent Kresa still feels passionate about MIT: "It's a place I love; I feel good when I come back, and it's ...
Apollo: Reflections and Lessons
Apollo: Reflections and Lessons
06/11/2009 9:30 AM KresgeDr. Jeffrey A. Hoffman, former Space Shuttle astronaut, Professor of the Practice, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT ; Dr. Richard Battin, '45, PhD '51, Director of Apollo guidance, navigation and control system, Senior Lecturer, MIT ; Dr. Aaron Cohen, ...
Barry L. Vercoe - Oral History Interview no. 2, April 24, ...
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 ...