Thoughts on the Future of Engineering Education
Thoughts on the Future of Engineering Education
Ian Waitz, MacVicar Faculty Fellow and dean of MIT's School of Engineering, shares his perspectives on current trends in engineering education.
There's Light at the End of the Tunnel
There's Light at the End of the Tunnel
A panel of recent MIT alumni across academia, industry, consulting, and entrepreneurial careers speak about how they planned and accomplished graduation (convincing advisor, committee); how their career paths post-graduation have changed since MIT (work style, pace, perks, drawbacks); and what ...
The Writing of Fantasy
The Writing of Fantasy
11/14/2007 7:00 PM 32"123Susan Cooper, Author; Gregory Maguire, Author; Roger Sutton, Editor in Chief, The Horn Book; Dr. Robert M. Randolph, Chaplain to the InstituteDescription: Sometimes the world gives off a glare "that's hard to look at directly," says Susan Cooper, and for her, making ...
The World's Numerical Recipe
The World's Numerical Recipe
04/26/2001 Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MITDescription: "We can cook up a superb model of ordinary matter (allowing a very liberal definition of ordinary) using four numerical parameters as ingredients. A passable model needs only two. After adding another two ...
The World's Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental ...
The World's Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges Past ...
Professor Susan SolomonEllen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science at MITDean of Science's Colloquium: “The World’s Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges Past and Future”September 13, 2012 Humans ...
The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of ...
The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of India and China ...
04/04/2006 4:00 PM 10-105Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr., President, Economic Strategy Institute Description: The world isn't so much flat as gravely tilting, "and may be on the way to some kind of self-destruction," believes Clyde Prestowitz, Jr. We're due for a major ...
The World is Flat 3.0
The World is Flat 3.0
Elaborating on his World is Flat thesis, Friedman describes how this new global order puts creative, entrepreneurial individuals in the driver's seat, and poses distinct new challenges and opportunities.
The World is Flat
The World is Flat
05/16/2005 4:00 PM 10-250Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times Foreign Affairs ColumnistDescription: Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, "Grandma Betty in her bathrobe" will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt ...
The World Economy Blanchard, Caballero and Rigobon
The World Economy Blanchard, Caballero and Rigobon
01/23/2002, 5:00 PM, E51-345 Olivier Blanchard Ricardo Caballero Roberto Rigobon Three members of the Economics Department came together for a discussion on where the world economy appears to be going, and the potential implications of September 11th. School of ...
The Wonders of Electricity and Magnetism
The Wonders of Electricity and Magnetism
The inimitable Walter Lewin gives a literally hair-raising performance in this MIT Museum lecture/demonstration for learners young and old.
The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books ...
The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books and Visualizing ...
04/01/2008 6:00 PM 32"123David Macaulay, Author, IllustratorDescription: This presentation feels akin to a new Disney ride: During your tour inside David Macaulay'simagination, prepare to soar over Rome's great monuments, raft within the human body's circulatory ...
The War in Afghanistan: How to End It
The War in Afghanistan: How to End It
03/10/2010 3:30 PM KresgeDavid Miliband, SM' 90, British Foreign Secretary, 2007"2010Description: [from the MIT News Office] British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged the Afghanistan government to consider bringing Taliban supporters into its political system, telling an MIT audience ...
The virtues of risk and failure
The virtues of risk and failure
MIT Sloan Women in Management conference talks up the virtues of risk and failure.
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture (Part ...
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture
(Part One)
05/08/2004 10:00 AM 26-100Charles Vest, President, MIT; Jame Farver, Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center ; ; James Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University Description: The opening of The Ray and Maria Stata Center, ...
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture (Part ...
The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture
(Part Two)
05/08/2004 11:30 AM 26-100William J. Mitchell, Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences ; Director, Smart Cities research group, MIT Media Lab; Frank Gehry, Architect; Robert Venturi, Architect; Kyong Park, SM '87, Founder/Director ...
The Universe is a Strange Place
The Universe is a Strange Place
Perhaps the universe is not so much strange as brimming with lovely paradox. The search for such beauty seems to lie at the heart of Frank Wilczek's work.
The Underground City: Preliminary Findings about Beijing's ...
The Underground City: Preliminary Findings about Beijing's Bomb Shelter ...
Professor Annette M. Kim presents preliminary findings of her research about Beijing's elaborate underground housing market.
The U.S. Energy Crisis and the Role of New Nuclear Plants
The U.S. Energy Crisis and the Role of New Nuclear Plants
11/05/2007 3:30 PM 32"141Thomas A. Christopher, President and CEO, AREVA NP Inc.Description: "This machine of ours is running out of control" is Thomas A. Christopher's sobering assessment of the consequences we face as a result of our insatiable appetite for energy. ...
The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years
The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years
09/18/2000 7:00 PM KresgeFranco Modigliani, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Paul A. Samuelson, 1970 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Robert M. Solow, MIT Institute Professor, Emeritus 1987 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsHost(s): Office of the President, Ford/MIT Nobel ...
The U.S. and the World's Recession
The U.S. and the World's Recession
06/07/2008 9:00 AM E51"115Roberto Rigobon, PhD '97, Professor of Economics; Description: Roberto Rigobon somehow makes his audience laugh while summarizing preliminary research on worldwide inflation and recession, data that bring some grim tidings about our global economic state of health. ...