Category: From the Vault
Technology Day 2000 — “The Future of Atoms in an Age of Bits”
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MIT Technology Day 2000, on the theme "The Future of Atoms in an Age of Bits," features speakers Rodney A. Brooks ("Flash, Machines and the Physical World"), William J. Mitchell ("E-Topia: Digital Communications and t...
MIT 2.007 Robot Competition Spring 2010
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Each spring semester, 2.007 — known as Design and Manufacturing I, a required course for mechanical engineering students — culminates in a hotly contested robot competition. A tradition for 40 years, the 2.007 Robot C...
A. Neil Pappalardo — Reflections on an MIT Education (2008)
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A. Neil Pappalardo '64 shares his life story during an inspirational 2008 talk titled "Reflections on an MIT Education." Introduced by MIT President Susan Hockfield, Pappalardo explains the lessons he learned at MIT a...
MIT’s Building 20: The Magical Incubator (1998)
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MIT's Building 20, built in 1943, was called the "Magical Incubator" because over the course of its long history it housed a range of laboratories involved in some of the most important and ground-breaking development...
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Dr. Yusuke Nishida
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9th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium May 14, 2010 Universal Physics with Ultracold Atoms Dr. Yusuke Nishida, 2008-11 Fellow (Nuclear & Particle Theory) Physics is said to be universal when resu...
1995 Freshman Convocation: President Charles M. Vest
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President Charles M. Vest addressing the M.I.T. freshman class of 1995. Recorded August 28,1995.
Charles M. Vest: Diversity Interview
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An interview with the 15th President of MIT, Charles M. Vest, on Diversity. Recorded October 14, 1993.
Philip Morrison and Lester Thurow — Symposium on Forecasting the Future Across Industries (1988)
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Physicist Philip Morrison (Institute Professor) and economist Lester Thurow (Dean of the Sloan School of Management) address senior executives at the "Symposium on Forecasting the Future Across Industries: Tech/ Scien...
“Soft Machine” (1984) — Architecture Machine Group
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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-comp...
16th Killlian Award Lecture No. 1 (1988) — Jay W. Forrester, “The Common Foundation…”
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Jay W. Forrester delivers the first of two talks for the James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award, titled "The Common Foundation Underlying Physical and Social Systems: Information Sources and Methods for Mod...
