At an MIT forum, economists suggested America's growing wealth gap matters for an overarching reason that's slightly harder to quantify: Inequality, they said, constitutes a threat to America's values and political system.
ESG freshman Joel Schneider uses Lagrange Multipliers applied to microeconomics. Read more about the Experimental Study Group: http://esg.mit.edu/
Gruber, a key architect of Massachusetts health reform, uses a visual, comic book-style narrative to make the case for the national health law.
Nobel Prize in Economics Press Conference with winner Peter Diamond
Evangelos is currently deputy head of the Risk Management Division in the European Central Bank (ECB). Since January 1, 1999, the ECB has been responsible for conducting monetary policy for the Euro area--the world's largest economy after the ...
Manuel Sosna is one of the three founders of ubitexx GmbH and was responsible for finance, key account management and marketing from 2002 to April 2009. Now he supports ubitexx, among other companies, as a management consultant. Manuel talks here ...
Jürgen Schlangenotto joined BNP PARIBAS in September 2008 as managing director, corporate and investment banking taking care of the portfolios of a number of major German DAX-Companies. BNP Paribas is the largest bank in the Euro Zone by total ...
Abdullatif A. Al-Othman is Saudi Aramco's senior vice president of finance business line, which covers the controllers, treasurers, and the general auditing functions. Abdullatif talks here about how the financial crisis has affected his business ...
Held on April 10, 2010 in honor of Institute Professor, Nobel Laureate Paul A. Samuelson.
Recorded on May 5, 2013 Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Panelist: Roderick Coover, Temple University Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck Molly Sauter, MIT Dan Whaley, hypothes.is
Recorded on May 4, 2013 Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Panelists: Cristobal Garcia, P. Universidad Catolica (Chile); Eric Gordon, Emerson College; Henry Jenkins, USC; Maria San Filippo, Harvard University.
Recorded on May 3, 2013 Moderator: Nick Montfort, MIT Panelists: Feona Attwood, Middlesex University (UK); David Rosen, Author; Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University.
Speaker: David Thorburn, MIT Recorded on May 3, 2013 in the Bartos Theater at the beginning of the "Media in Transition 8: public media, private media" conference. Visit the conference website at web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/.
Recorded on May 4, 2013 Moderator: Ethan Zuckerman, MIT. Panelists: Goran Bolin, Sodertorn University (Sweden); Kelly Gates, University of California, San Diego; Jose van Dijck, University of Amsterdam.
Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Anthropology Program, studies the people and culture behind the renaissance of artisanal cheese making in the United States.
In a talk at MIT on May 7, 2013, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan called for a new wave of creative urban planning to help cities evolve during a time of economic hardship.
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia DominguezModerator: Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science at the MIT Dept of Political Science and ...
On May 15, 2013, 3dim earned the grand prize at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.
Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.
In a visit to the MIT campus on May 14, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of young MIT entrepreneurs.
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia Dominguez. Moderator: Richard Samuels
What message is your brain sending?
You can create your own mini flashlight.
Scenes from MIT's campus during the memorial ceremony for Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013.
On April 24, 2013 in Briggs Field, thousands of law enforcement officials joined the MIT community in honoring fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier.
After an extensive renovation project, the Barker Library reading room has reopened to reveal the grandeur of the restored oculus atop the Great Dome, and the beauty of the rotunda’s original architecture.
Natural selection at work.
An interesting feature on the MIT Professor Emeritus of Physics by LaInformacion.com.
An undergraduate helps MIT's Brain and Cognitive Science Department find a cure for Huntington's disease.
An MIT undergraduate models a new class of material: the photonic crystal.
Used with permission from "Chronicle" (WCVB-Boston).
MIT Sloan Professor of Management Thomas Kochan discusses how financial analysts have pressured businesses to perform financially.
What makes a glow stick glow?
Alberto Cavallo, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses how Argentina has lied about its inflation rate.
A small amount of water is placed inside an airtight copper tube, with the end sealed by a rubber stopper. The tube is heated using a blowtorch, causing the water inside to boil. As the water changes from a liquid to a gas the pressure inside the tube increases. Eventually the pressure blows ...
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Presentation by Ken Gagne, web producer at MIT Medical, on the basics of podcasting. This presentation was hosted by the Social Media Working Group and Communication Production Services in May 2013.
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