Category: From the Vault
“Sailing by Computer” (1966) – Science Reporter TV Series
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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 testi...
MIT Experimental Music Studio (ca. 1973)
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Interview with Barry Vercoe, MIT Associate Professor of Music and Director of the MIT Experimental Music Studio; Prof. Richard Hoffman of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music offers commentaries. Marcus Thompson (MIT Ass...
14th Killian Award Lecture No. 2 (1986) — Franco Modigliani, “Application of Life Cycle Hypothesis”
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Professor Franco Modigliani's lecture titled "Application of the Life Cycle Hypothesis to Policy Issues" is the second of two talks he gave for the James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award Lecture series. Kre...
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...
Prof. Woodie Flowers, Course 2.70 Introduction to Design Competition (1981)
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Professor Woodie Flowers, of the MIT Mechanical Engineering department, hosts the 1981 competition for his famous "Introduction to Design" class — perhaps MIT's most influential engineering course. The challenge is de...
Technology Day 1996 — “Miracle or Mirage: Technology at the Horizon”
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MIT's Technology Day 1996, on the theme "Miracle or Mirage: Technology at the Horizon" features speakers Bran Ferren '74 ("There's No Bits like Show Bits"), David Baltimore LI '61 ("The Next Gene"), John Preston ("Mat...
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.
“One Part in a Trillion” (1964) — Science Reporter TV Series
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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 fin...
MIT Centennial Procession (1961)
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This short silent film shows the formal procession of MIT professors and other dignitaries gathering for the academic assembly at the MIT Centennial celebrations in 1961. MIT president Julius A. Stratton and his wife,...
1993 MIT Commencement Address — President Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Dr. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Constitutional President of the United Mexican States, gives the 1993 MIT Commencement Address on May 28, 1993.
