The Fruits of Diversity
The Fruits of Diversity
MIT150 Symposium Human Diversity and Social Order Forum Series Fruits of Diversity is a celebration of the enrichment of language and the arts when diverse cultures come to know and appreciate one another. New forms of architecture, visual arts, and music express their synthesis in wonderful, ...
The Evolution of Sex: Rethinking the Rotting Y Chromosome
The Evolution of Sex: Rethinking the Rotting Y Chromosome
12/08/2003 4:00 PM McGovern AuditoriumDavid C. Page, Associate Director of Science, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MITDescription: According to David Page, "the Y chromosome is the Rodney Dangerfield of the human genome." Regarded for 50 years as a genetic ...
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear ...
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear Energy in ...
10/25/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumThe Honorable John P. Holdren, '65, SM '66, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the PresidentDescription: In a meaty lecture that serves as a concise and comprehensive primer on the twin challenge of ...
The Dignity of Difference
The Dignity of Difference
10/16/2007 4:30 PM Wong AuditoriumSir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British CommonwealthDescription: In a talk that interweaves philosophy, history, religion and some classic rabbinic banter, Sir Jonathan Sacks calls for a "paradigm shift in ...
The City Car
The City Car
03/19/2008 6:00 PM MuseumWilliam J. Mitchell, Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences ; Director, Smart Cities research group, MIT Media Lab; Ryan Chin MA, '00, SM '04, Doctoral Student, Smart Cities ProjectDescription: William Mitchell and Ryan Chin ...
The Cell Cycle and Cancer
The Cell Cycle and Cancer
06/07/2006 1:00 PM 46-3002Angelika Amon, Associate Professor of Biology, MIT;; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteDescription: We all start out as a single fertilized cell, and wind up, as fully formed humans, with 10 to the 13th cells. -The name of the game," says Angelika Amon, is ...
The Brain Basis of Human Vision
The Brain Basis of Human Vision
04/26/2006 6:00 PM MuseumNancy Kanwisher, '80, PhD '86, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT; Edmund Bertschinger, Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, MITDescription: Nancy Kanwisher's breakthrough scanning research reveals "a teeny part of an answer to the big question ...
Technology Day 2001 - "Origins and Beyond: Our Place in the ...
Technology Day 2001 - "Origins and Beyond: Our Place in the Cosmos"
The 2001 MIT Technology Day takse place on June 9, 2001, on the theme "Origins and Beyond: Our Place in the Cosmos." Featured speakers include Eric S. Lander, "The Human Genome and Beyond;" Claude R. Canizares, "The Origin of the Universe;" Maria T. Zuber, "Probing ...
Technology and Humanity in the 21st Century
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 ...
Take a Spin on the Centrifuge (MIT Engineering K-12 Video ...
Take a Spin on the Centrifuge (MIT Engineering K-12 Video Pilot)
This video uses Man-Vehicle Lab's human centrifuge to discuss centripetal force and countermeasures for astronaut bone and muscle loss in space. It shows the mathematics required to calculate centripetal force, and performs an experiment on the centrifuge with an ...
STARR FORUM: DARFUR/DARFUR: "The Crisis"
STARR FORUM: DARFUR/DARFUR: "The Crisis"
This video is from "The Crisis" half of the Starr Forum "DARFUR/DARFUR: The Crisis| The Exhibit" The Starr Forum event commences in the Kirsch Auditorium with a panel discussion featuring Robert Rotberg, Belfer Center, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Susannah Sirkin, Physicians for ...
Sociable Robots
Sociable Robots
04/29/2008 6:00 PM MuseumSherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauz_ Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology,Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Cynthia Breazeal, SM '93, SCD '00, Professor, Program in Media Arts and SciencesDescription: Cynthia Breazealmakes social ...
Shannon Roberts Presents CityBrowser Voice Navigation System
Shannon Roberts Presents CityBrowser Voice Navigation System
Shannon Roberts, MIT Class of 2009, describes a joint project she worked on with the MIT AgeLab, New England University Transportation Center and MIT's CSAIL Laboratory. CityBrowser is an in-vehicle navigation system with which the user interacts with via voice ...
Session III: Reality Mining: The End of Personal Privacy?
Session III: Reality Mining: The End of Personal Privacy?
Anmol Madan, Ben Waber, Margaret Ding, Paul Kominers, Alex (Sandy) Pentland (MIT). 10/12/2009
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: George C. Verghese
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: George C. Verghese
Professor George C. Verghese of MIT discusses research and education in his group, and the intellectual challenges facing engineers at the frontiers of computational modeling and clinical monitoring.
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 ...
Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
09/27/2010 4:30 PM e14"633Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic PhilanthropiesDescription: Gara LaMarche believes the nation's charitable organizations have lost "moral clarity," growing more concerned with "the fix, the intervention, than about reasons for ...
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, ...
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, ...
Personal Robots
Personal Robots
06/07/2008 11:45 AM KresgeCynthia Breazeal, SM '93, SCD '00, Professor, Program in Media Arts and SciencesDescription: Cynthia Breazeal's eminently charming creatures appear to have stepped out of Santa's North Pole workshop. But Breazeal wants you to know that her robots are attempts to ...