"One Part in a Trillion" (1964) - Science Reporter TV ...
"One Part in a Trillion" (1964) - Science Reporter TV Series
In this 1964 "Science Reporter" program we take a tour of the nuclear reactor at the U.S. Army Materials Research Agency in Watertown, MA, and learn how it is being used as a scientific research tool to detect and fingerprint infinitesimal impurities in metals. Homer ...
"Phi Beta Epsilon" (1927)
"Phi Beta Epsilon" (1927)
This light-hearted silent film shows life at the Phi Beta Epsilon fraternity at MIT during the 1926-1927 academic year. It is filled with silly gags and activities, from house-cleaning to house parties and sports events - a wonderful compendium of images reflecting life at MIT in the 1920s. ...
"Reading by Ear" (1966) - Science Reporter TV Series
"Reading by Ear" (1966) - Science Reporter TV Series
In this 1966 "Science Reporter" television program, MIT Electrical Engineering Professor Samuel Mason discusses cutting-edge technology being used to focus on the challenges of providing education to visually impaired people through improved sensory aids. In his ...
"Returning From the Moon" (1966) - Science Reporter TV ...
"Returning From the Moon" (1966) - Science Reporter TV Series
This 1966 "Science Reporter" television program tackles the challenges of getting the Apollo Command Module safely back from space through the atmosphere to Earth - one of the most forbidding hurdles of the Apollo program. William Brooks (Langley Research Center, ...
"Sailing by Computer" (1966) - Science Reporter TV Series
"Sailing by Computer" (1966) - Science Reporter TV Series
Novel approaches to ship design using state-of-the-art computers are presented in a 1966 interview of Halsey Herreshoff, instructor at the MIT Department of Naval Architecture in charge of research in ship model testing, in this "Science Reporter TV program ...
"Sampling MIT" at the MIT Museum
"Sampling MIT" at the MIT Museum
Sampling MIT will directly connect visitors to some of the thousands of research topics currently being explored at the Institute. In typical MIT fashion, the questions being asked are large, and the techniques used to discover answers are broad - from bio-engineering a virus to build a ...
"Science, Technology and Engineering Education in 21st ...
"Science, Technology and Engineering Education in 21st Century Diplomacy ...
Andrew W. Reynolds, Deputy Science & Technology Adviser, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
"Sciencelicious" Rap
"Sciencelicious" Rap
A creative rap about science and engineering written by a WTP-ME student to the tune of "Fergalicious"
"So Hollow" from Insomnia, Fall 2008 - choreographed by ...
"So Hollow" from Insomnia, Fall 2008 - choreographed by Earl Solis
A modern piece choreographed by Earl Solis for the fall 2008 DanceTroupe show "Insomnia." The number is entirely original choreography performed by: Hilda Buss Tarikh Campbell Amanda Engler Sherry Gao Shari Haynes Joanne Huang Catherine Johnson Abby Men Earl Solis ...
"Social networks that balance themselves" by Steven Strogatz
"Social networks that balance themselves" by Steven Strogatz
The second of Steven Strogatz's Simons Lectures, given in the MIT Department of Mathematics in April, 2011.
"Soft Machine" (1984) - Architecture Machine Group
"Soft Machine" (1984) - Architecture Machine Group
In this video the Architecture Machine Group (a think-tank laboratory that preceded MIT's current Media Lab) introduces the Interactive Graphical Robot System and Video Slidathon. As the computer states, "The man-computer interface has evolved from the teletypewriter ...
"Take Me Back To Tech" (1976)
"Take Me Back To Tech" (1976)
This film, which takes its title from a popular MIT song featured at the beginning of the piece, offers a narrative history of MIT from its Back Bay beginnings to the mid-1970s, compiled from a range of vintage film clips from the MIT film archives. It was produced in 1976 for the MIT ...
"Team Wonderfulness": How GELs Expand their Engineering ...
"Team Wonderfulness": How GELs Expand their Engineering Leadership Skills
In this video, "Team Wonderfulness"--a group of Gordon Engineering Leaders who participated in ESD.950: Project Engineering during IAP 2011--demonstrate how they developed their visioning, relating, sensemaking, and delivering skills.
"The Airplane at Play" (1930s) - Charles S. Draper and ...
"The Airplane at Play" (1930s) - Charles S. Draper and Robert M. Love
Charles Stark Draper and Robert M. Love `33 give a wonderful pilot's view of early aerial acrobatics and film them from both the ground and the cockpit. Cameramen Draper and Arthur Rossi, pilot C.W. Sutherland. Location: Framingham, MA. Courtesy of MIT Museum. [T6124]
"The Apollo 4 Mission" (1967)
"The Apollo 4 Mission" (1967)
This 1967 film depicts the preparation, launch and recovery of the successful flight of the first seven and one-half million pound-thrust Saturn Five vehicle with the Apollo spacecraft. The actual course of the flight is portrayed through animation. Included is color photography from inside ...
"The Birth of Time-Shared Computing" (1985) - Robert Fano
"The Birth of Time-Shared Computing" (1985) - Robert Fano
The history of time-sharing is the subject of this lecture by Robert Fano, delivered on April 30, 1985. Fano joined the MIT faculty in 1947 and from 1950 to 1953, he led the Radar Techniques Group at Lincoln Laboratory. Fano is a member of the National Academy of ...