The Impact and Dynamics of Centralization in Supply Chain ...
The Impact and Dynamics of Centralization in Supply Chain Decision-Making
Guruprakash Rangavittal and Tae-Hee SohnResearch Fest 2008 This thesis examines the relationship between centralization in the supply chain organization of companies, cost structure and the factors prompting companies to either centralize or decentralize their supply ...
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Alison Malcolm is an Assistant Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.
The Great Climategate Debate
The Great Climategate Debate
12/10/2009 3:00 PM 26"100Henry D. Jacoby, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Judith Layzer, PhD '99, Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy; Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor, Department of Political ...
The future of digital fabrication
The future of digital fabrication
Neil Gershenfeld is director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
The Evolution of Protein Structures
The Evolution of Protein Structures
To mark MIT's 150th anniversary, the MIT Biology Department presented a forum on "The Evolution of Protein Structures" on Wednesday, May 11, 2011, from 1 at 4 p.m. in Room 32-123 in the Ray and Maria Stata Center. The forum highlighted recent advances in understanding how proteins, ...
The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and ...
The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research
05/12/2009 4:00 PM 10"250Steven Chu, Secretary of EnergyDescription: The situation facing our planet could hardly be more dire: There's increasingly dangerous competition among nations for ever scarce energy resources, and climate change is racing ahead of ...
The Coldest Place in the Universe
The Coldest Place in the Universe
A short documentary on the Bose-Einstein Condensate work done in Wolfgang Ketterle's lab.
The City Car
The City Car
Conversation with Ryan Chin, Research Associate and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about the CityCar electric automobile.
The Center for Advanced Urbanism
The Center for Advanced Urbanism
The CAU is committed to fostering a rigorous design culture for the large scale
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 CarTel Project: Using Cars in a Mobile Sensor Network
The CarTel Project: Using Cars in a Mobile Sensor Network
CarTel is a distributed, mobile sensor network and telematics system. Applications built on top of this system can collect, process, deliver, analyze, and visualize data from sensors located on mobile units such as automobiles. A small embedded computer on the car ...
The Buckliball
The Buckliball
Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures.
The Bridge Project Awards Ceremony
The Bridge Project Awards Ceremony, March 6th 2012
The Bridge Project is a collaboration between the Koch Institute and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC)
The Aging Brain: Learning, Memory, and Wisdom
The Aging Brain: Learning, Memory, and Wisdom
McGovern Institute investigator John Gabrieli discusses the capacity of the human brain to change over the course of a lifetime.
Telling the Stories of Science Panel 1
Telling the Stories of Science Panel 1
Attention and Memory: How the Brain Does What It Does
Bringing a Star to Earth for Energy — Dennis Whyte
TEDxBeaconStreet: Bringing a Star to Earth for Energy — Dennis Whyte
Dennis Whyte, a professor of nuclear science and engineering, has a vision for how we can consume energy in a cleaner, nearly limitless way.
Technology: Water Supply, Desalination and Energy
Technology: Water Supply, Desalination and Energy
With John LienhardAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong environmental ...
Technology, Policy and Education: Education for Leadership ...
Technology, Policy and Education: Education for Leadership in Engineering
06/08/2006 3:05 PM E51-345Dava Newman, Sm '89, PhD '92, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems; Granger Morgan, Lord University Professor and Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy; Carnegie Mellon University ; ; Sheila Widnall, '60, ...