Predicting the popularity of tweets

Tauhid Zaman, assistant professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to predict the popularity of a Twitter post.

Prof. Angela Belcher on Engineering Organisms to Grow Unique Materials for ...

Hear the amazing story of how Professor Belcher uses genetically-engineered viruses to biologically assemble new materials at nano-structure scale for applications as diverse as lithium ion batteries and solar photovoltaic cells.

Bove-Holographic TV

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Bove-User Interfaces that Disappear

Diaduck-MTL Microsystems That Do Big Jobs

Head in the Clouds

Sarvesh Garimella is a graduate student interested in using laboratory studies and models to understand how natural and anthropogenic aerosols affect the formation and persistence of ice and mixed-phase clouds in the atmosphere and ultimately the climate system.Video by Helen Hill, MIT

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.

Building the solar car

Used with permission from "Chronicle" (WCVB-Boston).

Developing New Tools for Leveraging Data

Economic Complexity Expanding Concepts of Development

A brief discussion by César Hidalgo, the Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences.

Measuring Perceptions and Building Bridges Between Theory and Observation

A brief discussion by César Hidalgo, the Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences.

Diffusion tensor imaging

This video shows white matter tracts, the long-range connections of the human brain. The tracts are revealed here through a MRI-based method known as 'diffusion tensor imaging' or DTI. The video is based on data produced by Dr Satrajit Ghosh at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

Robert Langer on biomaterials for the 21st century

Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, discusses his research in material science and biomaterials at TEDxBigApple.

Nanowires can lift liquids without power

New research has demonstrated for the first time that when inserted into a pool of liquid, nanowires naturally draw the liquid upward in a thin film that coats the surface of the wire.