Steve Eppinger on Developing Sustainable Products
Steve Eppinger on Developing Sustainable Products
MIT Sloan Executive Education professor Steve Eppinger describes his research into developing sustainable products. Learn more about professor Steve Eppinger.
Stem cells, reprogramming and personalized medicine: ...
Stem cells, reprogramming and personalized medicine: promise, problems, ...
09/28/2010 2:30 PM 10"250Rudolf Jaenisch, Professor of Biology, MIT Founding Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical ResearchDescription: After years of relentless lab work, rising and falling expectations, and the challenge of a sometimes hostile public, Rudolf ...
Staying afloat in a cardboard boat
Staying afloat: the annual Cardboard Boat Regatta
In the annual Head of the Zesiger, students design and then race boats constructed solely out of cardboard, paint and tape.
StartMobile: An Intelligent Phone Assistant in 2006
StartMobile: An Intelligent Phone Assistant in 2006
During 2005-2006, a group of CSAIL researchers led by Boris Katz developed StartMobile, a system that allowed users to interact with their phones using natural language, before the iPhone even existed! This video made in May 2006 describes some of the capabilities of ...
Stacy, 5th year master's student in EAPS
Stacy, 5th year master's student in EAPS
Stacy is a 5th year master's student in EAPS. Her thesis work focuses on assessing the economic value of seasonal hurricane forecasts based on insurance and reinsurance company interactions and information asymmetries. Her advisor is Kerry Emanuel. In this interview she shares a ...
Stabilizing a Vehicle Near Rollover: an Analogy to ...
Stabilizing a Vehicle Near Rollover: an Analogy to Cart-Pole Stabilization
This video contains animations of the two simulation results described in a conference paper presented at ICRA 2010. The results show tip-up of a vehicle on a surface with two different friction coefficients. In the first simulation, the surface friction coefficient is ...
SQUEEZICKS: Game Of The Week: Episode 6
SQUEEZICKS: Game Of The Week: Episode 6
The 2012 Game of the Week Podcast 6: SQUEEZICKS features GAMBIT Interaction Design Director Marleigh Norton. What is the Game of the Week? This is the Game of the Week. Beginning February 20th, 2012...On the Monday of each week, a new video exploring the origins and ...
Spinning fibers at the nanoscale
Spinning fibers at the nanoscale
A team of MIT researchers has developed a new way to generate nanofibers, using hardware built through standard chip-manufacturing processes.
Spider silk makes music
Spider silk makes music
An ear for music, it turns out, might be a key to making structural improvements in synthetic materials.
SPHERES Overview
SPHERES Overview
The MIT Space Systems Laboratory developed the SPHERES laboratory environment to provide DARPA, NASA, and other researchers with a long term, replenishable, and upgradable testbed for the validation of high risk metrology, control, and autonomy technologies for use in formation flight and ...
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Understanding the Path to ...
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Understanding the Path to Personalized Cancer Care
This with/in/sight program on Nov. 7, 2012, featured three experts exploring the future of cancer diagnostics and treatments that are personalized to the unique attributes of each patient and their cancer: Nikhil Munshi, multiple myeloma physician at Dana-Farber Cancer ...
Solutions with/in/sight: November 10th, 2011
Solutions with/in/sight: November 10th, 2011
This event, the second in the Koch Institute's with/in/sight lecture series, featured three expert perspectives on new tools and devices being used in the management of cancer. The evening's speakers were: Barbara Smith, director of the Breast Program and Co-Director ...
Soft Robotic Manipulator Enabled by Jamming of Granular ...
Soft Robotic Manipulator Enabled by Jamming of Granular Media
This video demonstrates a robotic manipulator that is robust, high-force, low-cost, and highly articulated without employing traditional actuators mounted at the manipulator joints. Rather, local tunable stiffness is coupled with off-board spooler motors and ...
Social Policy: Can Adaptation Save Us from Climate Change?
Social Policy: Can Adaptation Save Us from Climate Change?
With Michael GreenstoneAbout 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 ...
Soap Box: The Political Life of Cheese
Soap Box: The Political Life of Cheese
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.
Smart sand and robot pebbles
Smart sand and robot pebbles
Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model.
Simulating Bus Rapid Transit Scenarios in Chicago, IL
Simulating Bus Rapid Transit Scenarios in Chicago, IL
Simulating Bus Rapid Transit Scenarios on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL. Modeled by Shan Jiang and recorded by Shan Jiang and Mikel Murga in 2007.
Simons Center for the Social Brain - Workshop
Simons Center for the Social Brain - Workshop
Kickoff workshop for the Simons Center for the Social Brain (SCSB) at MIT- 2/17/12Led by Mriganka Sur, Paul E. Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the center.
Sikuli: Using GUI Screenshots for Search and Automation
Sikuli: Using GUI Screenshots for Search and Automation
Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). Visit http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/ for more info.
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 ...