Category: From the Vault
1999 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture — John H. Gibbons, “Sustainable Growth: Fantasy or Vision?”
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Dr. John H. Gibbons presents the last of three lectures delivered during the 1998-1999 academic year as part of the Karl Taylor Compton Lecture series. His talk is titled "Sustainable Growth: Fantasy or Vision?" and ...
Artificial “Skin” — Ioannis Yannas (1982)
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MIT Professor of Biological Engineering Ioannis V. Yannas discusses his pioneering work developing the first synthetic skin in collaboration with John F. Burke at Massachusetts General Hospital during the 1970s and ea...
Recollections of Churchill’s Visit to MIT for the Mid-Century Convocation of 1949 (1999)
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For its 1949 Mid-Century Convocation MIT invited Winston Churchill to give the keynote address in front of a crowd of thousands—an historic event for MIT and for the international community. This short video produced ...
Playing with FIRE- The Edge of the Universe as seen from Magellan, Dr. Robert Simcoe
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Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics 10th Anniversary Celebration: October 8, 2010 Dr. Robert Simcoe 2003-2006 Pappalardo Fellow
“The Eye of a Robot: Studies in Machine Vision at MIT” and “TX-O Computer” (1959)
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The first of two films shown here, "Eye of a Robot" (to 18:30) summarizes computer vision research being carried out in the 1950s at the MIT Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, under the direction of Marvin Minsky...
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Introductory Remarks by Howard Messing
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The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012 Introductory Remarks by Howard Messing'73 (Course VI), President & CEO, Meditech, Inc.
2nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration — Walter J. Leonard (1975)
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Following an invocation prayer and a musical performance, Walter J. Leonard delivers the keynote address for the second annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Celebration at MIT. Leonard, who at the time was Special...
“Automatically Programmed Tools” (1959) — Science Reporter TV Series
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In this 1959 MIT Science Reporter television program, researchers John Francis Reintjes and Douglas Taylor Ross present the APT project, a novel system for the computerization of numerical control being developed at t...
“Returning From the Moon” (1966) — Science Reporter TV Series
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This 1966 "Science Reporter" television program tackles the challenges of getting the Apollo Command Module safely back from space through the atmosphere to Earth—one of the most forbidding hurdles of the Apollo progr...
Apollo 11 Launch (1969) — Major Alexander P. de Seversky
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This short home movie taken by Major Alexander P. de Seversky, the Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor, shows a personal view of the APOLLO 11 launch and the attending audience. MIT Museum Collections.
