Category: From the Vault
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...
Vignettes of Early Radiation Workers (1978)
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Vignettes of early radiation workers with John G. Trump, D.Sc, Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. In this video series moderated by Lauriston S. Taylor, "Vignettes of Early Radiation Workers" showcases interv...
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,...
The Disappearing Neutrino?, Dr. Joshua Spitz
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The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012 More than 80 years after its proposed existence, the neutrino remains mysterious and enigmatic. We don't know the mass of the neutrino, how ma...
Ronald E. McNair Building Dedication, Center for Space Research (1986)
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On Dec. 5, 1986, MIT dedicated Building 37, home to the Center for Space Research, and part of the aeronautics and astronautics department, to Ronald E. McNair PhD '76. During McNair's second flight in space, he lost ...
“The Birth of Time-Shared Computing” (1985) — Prof. Robert Fano
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The history of time-sharing is the subject of this lecture by Robert Fano, delivered on April 30, 1985. Fano joined the MIT faculty in 1947 and from 1950 to 1953 he led the Radar Techniques Group at Lincoln Laboratory...
1998 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture — John H. Gibbons, “21st Century: ‘Will Science and Technology…”
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For his first of three Karl Taylor Compton Lectures, Dr. John H. Gibbons delivers a talk on "21st Century: "Will Science and Technology Contribute to Society or Scuttle It?" Introduction by Charles M. Vest.
2000 MIT Commencement Address — Dr. Carly Fiorina
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Dr. Carleton "Carly" S. Fiorina, President and CEO of the Hewlett-Packard Company, delivers the 2000 MIT Commencement Address on June 2, 2000.
“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...
Nanoelectronics with Atomically Layered Materials, Hugh Churchill
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The 12th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 10, 2013 Dr. Hugh Churchill, 2012--15 Pappalardo Fellow
