Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the ...
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World ...
05/26/2010 8:30 AM KresgeMichael B. Horn, Co"founder and Executive Director, Education, Innosight InstituteDescription: Can a theory that explains why successful organizations fail and newcomers prevail help turn around America's public schools? Michael B. Horn ...
Diverse Applications of Nuclear Technology
Diverse Applications of Nuclear Technology
03/08/2007 7:00 PM 32-141David Kaiser, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT; Ian Hutchinson, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Jeffrey Coderre, Nuclear Science and Engineering; Alan Jasanoff, Associate member, McGovern Institute for Brain ...
Dormbase
Dormbase
5 minute pitch for the 2012 iCampus Prize First Round competition. Dormbase was selected as one of First Round iCampus Prize winners. See http://icampusprize.mit.edu/ for more information.
Double Pendulum
Double Pendulum
A double jointed pendulum hangs from a rod. Swinging the pendulum with high energy results in motion that cycles chaotically between normal modes. Swinging it with low energy results in more predictable motion. When viewed under black lights, it is easy to see that the first joint of the ...
Dr. Robert Langer - Millennium Technology Prize Laureate ...
Dr. Robert Langer - Millennium Technology Prize Laureate 2008
MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer has won the Millennium Technology Prize, the world's largest award for technology innovation.Langer was chosen "for his inventions and development of innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release and tissue regeneration that ...
Dspace Introduction Video
Dspace Introduction Video
This video describes the basic ways in which universities and organizations use DSpace open source software. DSpace was initially designed by MIT and HP in collaboration. The software is currently used by nearly 500 organizations around the world to provide access to and preserve their ...
Earth Systems Engineering and Management
Earth Systems Engineering and Management
10/09/2007 5:00 PM 10"250Brad Allenby, Arizona State UniversityDescription: If you take as a given that humans now live on a geoengineered planet, then what is our responsibility for the future? Before discussing how to deal with Earth systems,Brad Allenby asks that we think carefully about ...
Education Across Borders: The India Perspective
Education Across Borders: The India Perspective
10/27/2009 3:00 PM 10"250Shri Kapil Sibal, Honourable Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of IndiaDescription: Rickshaw drivers in India are frequent victims of tuberculosis after just a few years inhaling traffic fumes. This near"epidemic went ...
Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our ...
Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools
05/25/2010 10:15 AM Dr. Milton Chen, Senior Fellow at the George Lucas Educational FoundationDescription: The daily news is full of stories about failing schools, as well as those undergoing miraculous rescues. But there are also schools that have devised innovative ...
Effective Examples of Educational Technology and Priorities ...
Effective Examples of Educational Technology and Priorities for Future ...
12/02/2006 9:30 AM Wong AuditoriumJames Duderstadt, President Emeritus, University of Michigan; Andrew Chien, '84, SM '87, SCD '90, VP Technology Group, Intel Corporation; Ashok S. Kolaskar, Vice Chancellor, University of Pune; Chris Mackie, Associate Program Officer, ...
Emerging Technologies and Trends in Online Entertainment ...
Emerging Technologies and Trends in Online Entertainment and Business
09/27/2006 9:50 AM KresgeJonathan F. Miller, Former Chairman and CEO, AOL; David Faber, CNBC Anchor -Squawk on the Street"Description: With the arrival of digital technology, we've become a nation -of multitaskers, snackers and samplers," says Jonathan Miller. A ...
Energy 2.0 Morning Keynote
Energy 2.0 Morning Keynote
03/10/2007 8:00 AM Kendall MarriottJeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO, GEDescription: Forget Energy 2.0, counsels Jeffrey Immelt-- -We never had Energy 1.0." Unlike the health care business, he says, -we still sell some products in the energy sector that sold 25 years ago." This relative ...
Energy Efficiency Technologies Panel
Energy Efficiency Technologies Panel
Highlights of technologies and approaches to to building energy efficiency featuring: John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems Director, System Dynamics Group Nicholas Gayeski, Building Technology Program Walt Henry, Department of Facilities Harvey ...
Engineering and Earth Systems: Can We Educate a New Breed ...
Engineering and Earth Systems: Can We Educate a New Breed of Engineers?
06/10/2006 10:00 AM KresgePhilip M. Gschwend, Associate Dept Head & Director of R M Parsons Lab; Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: Asbestos and chlorofluorocarbons earned their initial reputations as highly effective solutions to common, ...
Engineering Human-Machine Relationships
Engineering Human-Machine Relationships
05/23/2003 10:45 AM KresgeBarbara Liskov, Institute Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Equity, MIT; ; Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; Rodney A. Brooks, Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Heartland Robotics; ...
Eugene McDermott Science Festival Panel
Eugene McDermott Science Festival Panel
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 ...
Extreme Globalization
Extreme Globalization
04/15/2003 10:00 AM Tang Center/WongNicholas Negroponte, BAR '66, MAR '66, Chairman and Co-Founder, MIT Media Laboratory Wiesner Professor of Media Technology; Chairman, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)Description: In this talk, Negroponte discusses the three modern changes that have defined the ...
Feather and Coin in a Vacuum
Feather and Coin in a Vacuum
The free fall of a coin and feather are compared, first in a tube full of air and then in a vacuum. With air resistance, the feathers fall more slowly. In a vacuum, the objects fall at the same rate independent of their respective masses.
Film Music and Digital Media
Film Music and Digital Media
04/02/2009 5:00 PM Bartos theaterMartin Marks, Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, MIT; Paul Chihara, Chair of Visual Media and Professor of Music, UCLA; Dan Carlin, Chair, Film Scoring Department, Berklee School of MusicDescription: In a panel that at times resembles a late"night bull ...
Financial Markets: Outlook 2007
Financial Markets: Outlook 2007
01/25/2007 7:00 PM KresgeLiz Claman, Anchor, CNBC; Axel Bichara, SM '88, Atlas Venture; Benjamin Howe, America's Growth Capital; Frederick Lane, Lane, Berry & Co.; Deborah Kuenstner, Fidelity InvestmentsDescription: There's a lot of money to be made in the coming year, say these practitioners ...