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James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 20 — Model Train Speed Control
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Topics include: speed control of a model (Lionel Corp.) train; time division multiplex telemetry scheme; cogging; up-down counter; review of the hardware; demos with oscilloscope; switching amplifiers. Recorded: 1985.
Sir Salman Rushdie named Honorary Visiting Professor of the Humanities (1993)
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In November 1993, author Salman Rushdie made an unannounced visit to MIT to accept an award as Honorary Visiting Professor of the Humanities. Rushdie had been living in hiding ever since a death sentence was issued by...
14th Killian Award Lecture No. 1 (1986) — Franco Modigliani, “The Life Cycle Hypothesis”
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Professor Franco Modigliani's lecture, titled "Life Cycle Hypothesis of Savings", is the first of two talks he gave for the James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award Lecture series. Kresge Auditorium, April 2,...
“Take Me Back To Tech” (1976)
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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 c...
MIT Project Athena: A Computer-Aided Teaching System (1984)
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Project Athena was a pioneering experiment in education developed at MIT in the 1980s to integrate computers into the university system and provide access to powerful software to the community at all levels. This 1984...
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 07 — Constraints in Drawing Interpretation
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Recorded October 4th, 2010.
Leslie Kaelbling: 6.01 Lecture 10 — Deriving Behavior from Models
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6.01 Lecture 10 — Deriving Behavior from Models: Planning as a graph-search problem. Recorded 2012.
New Physics Sandwiched Between Two Oxide Insulators, Dr. Karen Michaeli
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The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012 The continuous search for novel electronic and spintronic devices recently came to fruition in the form of oxide interfaces. Combining two bor...
The Five Questions to Ask Before Building a Startup
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IAP 2014: January 13 Colin Kennedy, Elliot Cohen You’re at MIT; you're smart, driven, and creative: all the ingredients to build a startup and change the world. A year after you take the plunge, you’ll look back at ...
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 21—Normal Modes
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Topics include: 3-D rooms; distribution of normal modes; graphic equalizers; class demo with oscilloscope. Recorded: Nov. 21, 1995.
