Discussion with panelists: Caroline Jones, Felice Frankel, Christopher Turner. Recorded on 5/22/12.
A short documentary of the history of the subminiature vacuum tube. This 16 minute film was produced by the MIT Museum with funding from Raytheon in 1986 for the MIT Industrial Liaison Program. The producer and director was Seichi Tsutsumi of the MIT Industrial Liaison ...
MIT Media Lab associate professor Joe Paradiso's homemade analog synthesizer, probably the world's largest, is on display at the MIT Museum and streaming online.
A silent film produced by MIT in 1934 to introduce viewers to the Institute.
Rebuilding Credibility in the Face of Natural Disaster : After the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake struck the Italian region of Abruzzo, killing more than 300 people, six seismologists were convicted of manslaughter. Nearly three years later, the city is still rebuilding. In this event ...
Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Anthropology Program, studies the people and culture behind the renaissance of artisanal cheese making in the United States.
Shah discussed how he uses his machine-learning algorithm to predict trends hours in advance of recognition by Twitter.
The researchers discussed their robot, the Milli-Motein, which is not only one of the world's smallest robots, but if can also reconfigure itself in a matter of seconds
Aeronautics and astronautics professor discusses how boredom plays a major role in a drone-operators ability to do their job.
April 17, 2012 Visualizing Science: The Changing Arctic IceExplore the Arctic ice cap with photographer Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist John Toole, and MIT oceanographer Patrick Heimbach. See stunning images from ...
How do humans recognize and remember images? Can these processes be artificially created? Join MIT professors Aude Oliva, James Di Carlo, and Antonio Torralba in a conversation about the intersection of vision and cognition in humans and machines.
Growing up in Indiana, exploring the local woods and pit where fossils were found, Richard Schrock early on became interested in the natural world.
Recorded on 11/29/11
Full interview with Frank Adorney about the conception, development and fabrication of the Hudson 8 and Hudson 9 slide rule. This rule, invented by James R. "Pop" Bland, a mathematics professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, was the prototype for the famous Keuffel ...
Recorded on 11/25/11
Panel Discussion: The Science of IllusionWednesday, April 25, 2012Produced in partnership with the Cambridge Science Festival Can you imagine the science behind an invisibility cloak? What about a hovering hologram? The Science of Illusion pushes beyond the boundaries of the real and provides ...
Researchers at MIT's Center for Environmental Health Sciences probe the relationship between genetics and environment in the development of illnesses such as lung cancer. A video produced by AMPS/MIT Libraries for the MIT Museum's classroom/exhibit, "Learning Lab: The ...
A video of Clearly Impossible, an installation by Zhe Huang and Yao Zhang. The installation was originally part of a larger exhibition at the MIT Museum called Ways of Seeing. It will be up at the museum until May 25, 2012. Sponsored by Florcraft, Clearly Impossible is a MIT Museum Studio ...
From the high Himalayas to the poles, the world’s glaciers are melting. What does this mean for your community and our shared Earth? David Breashears presents his stunning new images of the Himalayan glaciers to mark the MIT Museum’s opening ...