Category: From the Vault
“Big City 1980” (1961) — MIT Centennial Film
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MIT professor and architectural engineer John E. Burchard '23 accompanies the program host, Garry Moore, as they consider together what the urban future holds: how and where we will live in 1980, twenty years ahead? T...
Victor Weisskopf & Philip Morrison, “Forty Years after Los Alamos: MIT and the Bomb”
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Professors Victor Weisskopf and Philip Morrison deliver presentations for the 1985 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture series on the theme "Forty Years After Los Alamos: MIT and the Bomb." Moderated by Francis Lowe; April 17...
20th Killian Award Lecture (1992) — Noam Chomsky, “Language: The Cognitive Revolutions”
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Professor Noam Chomsky delivers the 20th annual James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award and Lecture, "Language: the Cognitive Revolutions", on April 8, 1992. The Killian Award was established in 1971 to reco...
What Happens at the End of Inflation?, Dr. Mustafa Amin
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The 10th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 13, 2011 Dr. Mustafa Amin, 2008--2011 Pappalardo Fellow (Theoretical Astrophysics) Inflation, a period of accelerated expansion in the very early Unive...
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.
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Introductory Remarks with Edmund Bertschinger
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Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics 10th Anniversary Celebration: October 8, 2010 Edmund Bertschinger, Head, Department of Physics
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-EECS Colloquium Series: Prof. Eric Grimson presents Image-Guided Surgery (1995)
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Professor Eric Grimson is internationally recognized for his research in computer vision, especially in applications in medical image analysis. In 2011, Grimson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, was name...
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...
“Big Magnets” (1961) — Science Reporter TV Series
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Dr. Benjamin Lax discusses the future of the nascent National Magnetic Laboratory at MIT (of which he is the director) in fields such as biomagnetics, along with MIT professor Francis Bitter, research biologist Dr. H....
