Wooden Block Between Two Strings
Wooden Block Between Two Strings
A block of wood is attached vertically between two strings. When the bottom string is pulled slowly, the top string breaks. When the bottom string is pulled quickly, it itself breaks.
Winning the Oil Endgame
Winning the Oil Endgame
02/27/2006 4:00 PM WongAmory Lovins, Founder and CEO, Rocky Mountain InstituteDescription: Cars, trucks and planes lie at the heart of Amory Lovins plan for kicking the oil habit. We must make all our vehicles both lighter and stronger, using composite materials; more aerodynamic; and capable ...
Why Robbie Can't Learn: The Difficulty of Learning in ...
Why Robbie Can't Learn: The Difficulty of Learning in Autonomous Agents
11/19/2001 34"101Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MITDescription: In recent years, machine learning methods have enjoyed great success in a variety of applications. Unfortunately, on"line learning in autonomous ...
Why Large Companies Should Out-Innovate Small Ones
Why Large Companies Should Out-Innovate Small Ones
11/02/2006 12:00 PM E51-115 WongDan Hesse, SM '89, Chairman and CEO EmbarqDescription: Given the choice, Dan Hesse would opt for working in a big company rather than a small one, especially when it comes to innovating. He backs up this preference with years of ...
Where the Wired Things Are: A Day in the Life of a Modern ...
Where the Wired Things Are: A Day in the Life of a Modern Family
04/28/2011 11:30 AM Vanessa Van Petten, Youthologist and AuthorDescription: Vanessa Van Petten bears witness to a strange new future rapidly becoming reality: devices and apps available for every aspect of family life. Her Radical Parenting website draws on the ...
When to Seed, When to Harvest: The Four Quads of ...
When to Seed, When to Harvest: The Four Quads of Innovation, Growth
02/20/2002, 4:00 PM, Wong Auditorium Michael L. Eskew Under Michael Eskew's direction, UPS is expanding its emphasis on developing new lines of business that complement the company's core package operations. Driving this initiative, he oversees efforts to integrate ...
What's New at the Media Lab?
What's New at the Media Lab?
03/01/2007 5:00 PM 3"270Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; Frank Moss, Director, MIT Media Lab; Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences; Jerome B. Wiesner Professorship of Media ...
Welcome and Opening Remarks, History
Welcome and Opening Remarks, History
04/11/2011 9:00 AM David A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Victor Zue, ScD '76, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director, CSAIL; ...
Volvo's Environmental Business Strategy
Volvo's Environmental Business Strategy
04/09/2001 Leif Johansson, President of AB Volvo and CEO of the Volvo GroupDescription: On Monday, April 9, 2001, the MIT community had the opportunity to hear Leif Johansson, President of AB Volvo and CEO of the Volvo Group speak about his company's environmental business strategy. With the ...
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive ...
Visual Overviews for Cultural Heritage: Interactive Exploration for ...
05/20/2010 6:00 PM Morss Hall Walker Memorial Ben Shneiderman, University of MarylandDescription: A focus on designing technologies that allow the "visualization of things not visible" has been at the center of Ben Shneiderman's work over the past two decades. He ...
Unlock Your Social Media Potential - MIT Club of Northern ...
Unlock Your Social Media Potential - MIT Club of Northern California
Ever wonder how to set up your personal and corporate social media strategy? How do you leverage social media to build your start-up's presence? What's the technology that enables it and what are the differences between various platforms? What is the ...
Trauma and Rebuilding in the Digital Electronic Era
Trauma and Rebuilding in the Digital Electronic Era
05/13/2002, 5:30, 10-485 William J. Mitchell Anthony J. Townsend When cities have suffered major destruction in the past, through fire, earthquake, bombing, and so on, the physical rebuilding task has involved (1) recreating network infrastructure -- transportation ...
TrashTrack
TrashTrack
Winner of the NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, the video shows how TrashTrack uses technology to expose the challenges of waste management and sustainability. For more information go to: http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/index.php
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas ...
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in ...
04/06/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Chris Zegras, Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning, MITDescription: It seems that income and travel are inextricably linked. As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint ...
Transforming the Next Century
Transforming the Next Century
05/23/2003 3:45 PM KresgeRafael Reif, Provost, and Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Tomas Lozano- Perez, '73, SM '77, PhD '80, TIBCO Founders Professor of Computer Science and Engineering ; Jeffrey H. Shapiro, '67, SM '68, EE '69, PhD '70, Julius A. Stratton Professor ...
TR Sept/Oct 2011 Letter from the Editor
TR Sept/Oct 2011 Letter from the Editor
Technology Review features the TR35, 35 innovators under the age of 35, in its September/October 2011 issue.
TR Salon: Jack Dorsey Talks Technology
TR Salon: Jack Dorsey Talks Technology
At an MIT Technology Review event in San Francisco, the creator of Twitter and Square explains his guidelines for creating good technology.
Letter from the Editor
TR Nov/Dec Letter from the Editor
Our November/December 2011 issue features new technology for eavesdropping on the hive mind, an essay on the evolution of privacy, and much more.
Tom Malone: New Technology Means New Organizations
Tom Malone: New Technology Means New Organizations
Professor Tom Malone on how new technologies redefine how businesses are organized and operate within that new structure. Learn more about the Intelligent Organizations program.
Tom Malone: New technologies change essence of organizations
Tom Malone: New technologies change essence of organizations
MIT Sloan Executive Education professor Tom Malone discusses how new new technologies can change the essence of organizations by communicating information and helping to make decisions. Learn more about professor Tom Malone.