Category: From the Vault
“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...
1993 MIT Commencement Address — President Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Dr. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Constitutional President of the United Mexican States, gives the 1993 MIT Commencement Address on May 28, 1993.
Special meeting of the MIT community to welcome Dr. Susan Hockfield (2004)
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On the morning of August 26, 2004, MIT announced that Susan Hockfield, a distinguished neuroscientist and then Provost at Yale University, had been selected as MIT's 16th president. Later that afternoon, the MIT comm...
27th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration (2001) — Dr. Lani Guinier
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Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier delivers the keynote address for the 27th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration, on the theme "Confronting the Gap: Building and Sustaining Inclusion." Student spe...
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...
MIT Steel Bridge Team
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A look at the MIT Steel Bridge team as it prepares for and competes in the 2012 Student Steel Bridge Competition. The MIT team was sponsored by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. More information...
“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....
“The Apollo 4 Mission” (1967)
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This 1967 film depicts the preparation, launch and recovery of the successful flight of the first seven and one-half million pound-thrust Saturn Five vehicle with the Apollo spacecraft. The actual course of the fligh...
See It Now: Jay W. Forrester and the WHIRLWIND Computer (1951)
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Jay W. Forrester talks about his work on the WHIRLWIND Project, during an interview with Edward R. Murrow for CBS News on Dec. 16, 1951.
Scenes from Two Programs about Victor Weisskopf by Glorianna Davenport and Richard Leacock (2002)
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Scenes from two programs about Victor Weisskopf by Glorianna Davenport and Richard Leacock, presented on the occasion of a memorial event in 2002 celebrating his life. The first excerpt is taken from the film "Remembe...
