Category: From the Vault
“ds = dQ/τ and YOU!” (1961) — MIT Centennial Roundtable
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A roster of luminaries including Jerome Wiesner, Jerrold Zacharias, and John Burchard of MIT discuss the significance of science and technology together with Raymond Aron of the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Isadore R...
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.
Technology Day 2002 — “When Worlds Collide: Science, Politics and Power in the 21st Century”
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MIT's Technology Day 2002, on the theme "When Worlds Collide: Science, Politics and Power in the 21st Century," features the following speakers: Ronald G. Prinn CM '71 ("From Complex Science to Contentious Policy: Les...
A Membrane Puzzle, Dr. Sliviu Pufu
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The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012 It has been known for quite some time that ten-dimensional string theory is contained within a fairly mysterious eleven-dimensional theory of ...
The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars, Victoria Kaspi
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MIT Pappalardo Lecture Speaker: Victoria Kaspi, Department of Physics, McGill University Recorded on October 3, 2013
“Making Electrons Count” (c.1950)
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This early 1950s film provides a fascinating tour of the WHIRLWIND I computer facilities at MIT, illustrating daily routines, problem-shooting and step-by-step procedures that computer programmers and other users go t...
1999 MIT Commencement Exercises — Raymond and Thomas Magliozzi, Guest Speakers
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Raymond and Thomas Magliozzi, hosts of the National Public Radio series "Car Talk", are the commencement speakers on the occasion of the 1999 MIT Commencement Exercises. Commentaries by Prof. Samuel J. Keyser, Specia...
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...
“History of the Strobe” (1984) — Prof. Harold “Doc” Edgerton
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Professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton delivers one of his ever popular lectures about his life's work, in his talk titled "The History of the Strobe" delivered in Room 34-101 for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Hist...
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
