Search for geospatial information held in the MIT Geodata Repository, MassGIS, Harvard Geospatial Library, and MIT's paper map collection using MIT Geoweb.
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to create a new shapefile in ArcMap.
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to calculate the area of polygons in ArcMap.
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to create buffers of a constant distance around features in ArcMap.
This video shows how you can use a company database, like Hoover's, to create a list of companies in a certain geographical area, by an industry code, or other criteria. If you have questions or comments about the MIT Libraries, Ask ...
Emmanuel Music Craig Smith, music director Recorded in concert at Emmanuel Church, Boston, Mass. Recorded by Thomas Stephenson, Emmanuel Audio Recording
Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning Guest curator: Samuel Ray Jacobson, MIT SMArchS ’13, History Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art On view April 20-June 10, 2012 Video for the exhibit created in conjunction with the ...
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video explains how to search for a journal in Barton, the MIT Libraries catalog. Used in 3.091: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry.
Library Myths sets the record straight, debunking common misconceptions about libraries. The premiere episode reveals things you never knew you could check out of the MIT Libraries.
The eighth annual Prokopoff Concert honoring a gift of violin music to the Lewis Music Library from Lois Craig. Performed by MIT students.
A brief tour highlighting the collections, facilities, and services of the Lewis Music Library. Filmed by Gregory Perkins '10.
The Lewis Music Library hosted a concert of East Asian music by Oori and KIOKU on March 5, 2010. MIT student pungmul group Oori began the evening by performing traditional Korean music on a variety of percussion instruments, including the jang-goo, ...
Performance by the Chorallaries, MIT's student a cappella group, at the Institute Archives & Special Collections - February 2, 2010
Illustrated talk by Professor Jeffrey Ravel at the opening of Technology and Enlightenment: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot's Encyclopédie at the MIT Libraries' Maihaugen Gallery - February 2, 2010
Explains how you can employ the concept of "Fair Use" under US copyright law to legally reuse content; offers relevant tools to support your own fair use analysis; and shows how you can find images available for reuse without permission
Professor Don Sadoway demonstrates to his 3.091 class how to find a chemistry paper using the MIT Libraries' resources and tools. He demos Vera, Inspec, SFX and also comments on the importance of primary sources and peer review. October 5, 2009
What is needed to address the global energy challenge? New technologies, new sources of capital, and new ways of thinking. This video shows how MIT is playing a vital role in the search for energy solutions. Produced by MIT Alumni Association and AMPS/MIT Libraries. ...
Power Supply: Energy Resources in the MIT Libraries with speaker Prof. Rosalind Williams
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This is part 1 in a 4-part series on patent searching basics. Learn about what a patent is and why patents can be important to your research.
MIT’s Science Fiction Society curates an enormous library containing more than 90 percent of all English language science fiction ever published.
On May 19, 2013, 250 members of the MIT community gathered on Jack Barry Field with LED outfitted umbrellas as part of UP: The Umbrella Project.
Through this popular annual loan program, individual students and student groups may borrow original works of art from the collection for their private rooms and communal spaces.
Social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and surveys show that public speaking is high on the list of such phobias. For some people, these fears of social situations can be especially ...
Sharmila C. Chatterjee, senior lecturer in marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to create a smart content marketing strategy.
Tauhid Zaman, assistant professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to predict the popularity of a Twitter post.
Dr. Angela Belcher received the 2013 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for applying lessons in nature to design environmentally-friendly batteries, solar cells and clean transportation fuel, among other inventions.
This 30-minute documentary features the March 2012 premiere of "Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music," by composer Jamshied Sharifi '83.
Five graduating seniors discuss their time at MIT and what they look forward to in the future.
Robot instrument builder and MIT alum Andy Cavatorta discussed the creative process as part of CAST's 2013 "Music and Technology" seminar series. For more information: http://arts.mit.edu/cast/sss-lecturedemonstrations/
Institute Professor Emeritus Noam Chomksy, MIT Professor of Linguistics; Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, authors of "Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran"
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.
Did you know that glaciers hold nearly two percent of Earth's water?
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.
This lesson teaches students about the history of the Pythagorean theorem, along with proofs and applications.
Steven Spear, senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses how organizations can display either zombie or agile hero qualities.
Richard M. Locke is deputy dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management and head of the MIT Department of Political Science
Recorded on June 6, 2013
Bicycle trick riding, no. 2 / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1899. SUMMARY Opens with a man riding a bicycle in a backwards circle, on a stage with a painted backdrop of a city street. He dismounts, then remounts the ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1896] SUMMARY From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Showing "Herald" building, street and elevated railroad. NOTES Copyright: no reg. Camera, William Heise. Duration: 0:11 at 24 fps. MAVIS 214311. Filmed May 11, ...
OTHER TITLES Title in Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Paterson Falls CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1896] SUMMARY From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A beautiful picture of the falls of the Passaic River, near Paterson, N.J. NOTES Copyright: no ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1902. SUMMARY As early as 1874, passenger balloon flights were being made over San Francisco. San Franciscans - and Americans in general - were fascinated with the thrills and dangers of flight. Although ...
Photos of 2013 MechE grad students
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Bob Wurtz of the NIH presents his talk, entitled "Adding corollary discharge to motor computations for action ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Krishna Shenoy of Stanford University presents his talk, entitled "Motor cortical control and prostheses: a ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Tamar Flash of the Weizmann Institute presents her talk, entitled "Geometry, time and compositionality in ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Larry Abbott of Columbia University presents his talk, entitled "Network Models of Motor Cortex."
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Moshe Abeles of Bar-Ilan University presents his talk, entitled "Detecting the dynamics of binding amongst ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi of Northwestern University presents his talk, entitled "Geometrical aspects of modularity ...
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