Sound Wave Interference
Sound Wave Interference
Two speakers, mounted on the table and facing each other, are driven by a function generator. A microphone is introduced between the speakers and the sound waves are displayed on an oscilloscope. This demonstrates the effect of interference and the resulting phase shift on sound waves over a ...
Sociable Robots
Sociable Robots
04/29/2008 6:00 PM MuseumSherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauz_ Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology,Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Cynthia Breazeal, SM '93, SCD '00, Professor, Program in Media Arts and SciencesDescription: Cynthia Breazealmakes social ...
Session II: Panel
Session II: Panel
Discussion with Session II presenters. Moderator: Jim Adler, Chief Privacy Officer and General Manager, Systems, Intelius. 10/12/2009
Session II: An Internet Data Sharing Framework for ...
Session II: An Internet Data Sharing Framework for Balancing Privacy and ...
Erin Kenneally, Kimberly Claffy, (UC San Diego). 10/12/2009
Seamless Transitions
Seamless Transitions
04/27/2004 5:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPadmasree Warrior, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,; Motorola IncorporatedDescription: In a time when the boundaries between home, work, car, and plane are blurring, Motorola is exploring ways to enable people to have seamless ...
Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of ...
Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Science to Teach ...
03/07/2008 3:30 PM 32"123Dr. Carl Wieman, '73, Director, Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative,University of British ColumbiaDescription: Spurred by such real"world challenges as global warming, Carl Wieman, a Nobel Prize"winning physicist, has transformed his ...
Sandia's Thoughts on the War On Terrorism
Sandia's Thoughts on the War On Terrorism
2/11/2002, 3:00, Bartos Dr. Gerold Yonas Sandia National Laboratories mission is "to help our nation secure a peaceful and free world through technology." Since September 11, 2001, Sandia's Advanced Concepts Group has been engaged in an analysis and planning process ...
Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia
Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia
04/09/2010 12:00 PM E51"345Anatoly Chubais, General Director; Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO); Noubar Afeyan, PhD '87, Managing Partner and CEO, Flagship 87Ventures Description: In both lecture format and conversation with Sloan Senior Lecturer ...
Roz Williams: "Communications Forum: Public Communications ...
Roz Williams: "Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving ...
(Full talk, featuring Roz Williams, Abrahm Lustgarten, and Andrea Pitzer: http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/c4fcm:1502/videos/9524-communications-forum-public-communications-in-slow-moving-crises-) Governments, corporations, and communities plan for sudden crises: the ...
Rotating Candles in a Dome
Rotating Candles in a Dome
A row of candles are placed inside a see-through dome on a rotating platform. When the platform rotates, air inside the dome gets swung to the outer part of the dome, creating higher density air at the outer rim, and lower density air in the middle. The candle flames point inwards towards the ...
Robert Lepage and Peter Gelb Panel Discussion at MIT, 2012
Robert Lepage and Peter Gelb Panel Discussion at MIT, 2012
April 26, 2012 Technology in Stagecraft and StorytellingRobert Lepage in dialogue with Peter Gelb, General Manager, Metropolitan Opera Robert Lepage is the 2012 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts recipient. This event offered a fascinating glimpse into Lepage's ...
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Joel Voldman
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Joel Voldman
Professor Joel Voldman of MIT discusses research and education in his group, and the intellectual challenges facing engineers at the frontiers of applying microtechnology to cell biology.
Ripple Tank: Single and Double Slit Diffraction and ...
Ripple Tank: Single and Double Slit Diffraction and Interference
A ripple tank is placed above a mirror and a projection screen. A horizontal bar, whose frequency can be varied, taps the surface of the water and produces plane waves. The waves are incident on a barrier containing an adjustable opening. With a narrow single slit ...
Ring Falling in a Magnetic Field
Ring Falling in a Magnetic Field
Three aluminium objects are dropped through a magnetic field. The objects move slower entering and leaving the field due to changes in the flux through the object. The change in the flux through a conductor results in a force which opposes additional flux change. As a result the force opposes ...
Ride.Link - Making of
Ride.Link - Making of
The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, in partnership with the Provincia di Brescia - Italy - is developing a sustainable ride-sharing system for youth that utilizes wearable media. The system, with its main components of social networking, reputation management, referrals and geopositioning ...
Ricardo Dominguez - Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, ...
Ricardo Dominguez - Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions ...
03/28/11 Transborder Disturbances: Aesthetics, Interventions and Technology? Ricardo Dominguez, artist, activist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD Respondent: Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, Director, MIT Center for Future Civic Media Ricardo Dominguez is ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
04/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJohn Reilly, Co"director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management ; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Ronald Prinn, SCD '71, TEPCO ...
Relearning Learning--Applying the Long Tail to Learning
Relearning Learning--Applying the Long Tail to Learning
12/01/2006 8:30 AM Tang Center/WongJohn Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar, USCDescription: In a digitally connected, rapidly evolving world, we must transcend the traditional Cartesian models of learning that prescribe -pouring knowledge into somebody's head," says John ...
Recent Advances in Digital Processing of Images and Audio
Recent Advances in Digital Processing of Images and Audio
09/29/2006 4:00 32-123Henrique Malvar, PhD '86, Director, Microsoft ResearchDescription: Henrique Malvar hopes to impress a tough crowd with -tricks" hot from Microsoft's research labs. His show-and-tell features the latest magic in sound and image digital signal ...
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
10/01/2010 11:00 AM e14"633Tony Ciochetti, Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate; John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, ...