Category: From the Vault
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...
“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...
Dr. Amar G. Bose, CAES ILP Distinguished Lecture Series (1996)
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Dr. Amar G. Bose gives a talk titled "Experiences of an Academician in Industry" as part of the Center for Advanced Educational Services (CAES) and Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) Distinguished Lecture series; April...
Reel World MIT
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Join Larry Gallagher and the MIT Academic Video Productions team with special guest, the original MIT Science Reporter, John Fitch, for a night "behind the screens" at the MIT Museum. See historic and entertaining fil...
“Full Day” (1958) — Kevin Lynch
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Professor Kevin Lynch BCP '47 produced this time-lapse film showing 24 hours as viewed from the Memorial Drive side of the MIT campus, looking across the Charles River towards the city of Boston, in 1958, as part of h...
Gyorgy Kepes Interview (1988)
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Gyorgy Kepes, founder of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), is interviewed at his home in Cambridge, MA, on the occasion of a California Polytechnic show on art and science in December 1988. The intervi...
Oxide Interface: A Chance for New Electronics, Dr. Lu Li
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The 10th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 13, 2011 Dr. Lu Li, 2008--2011 Pappalardo Fellow (Condensed Matter Experiment) Like silicon in computer chips, interfaces between complex oxides are po...
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...
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...
Technology Day 1998 — “Creating Wealth: Knowledge, Skills, Capital, Resources”
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MIT’s 1998 Technology Day takes place on June 6, 1998 on the theme “Creating Wealth: Knowledge, Skills, Capital, Resources.” Featured speakers include Tony K. Tan PH ‘64, “Creating Wealth: A National Perspective”; Jud...
