Category: From the Vault
15th Killian Award Lecture (1987) — Mildred S. Dresselhaus, “Adventures in Carbon Research”
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Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus delivers the first of two talks for James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award, titled "Adventures in Carbon Research", on April 1, 1987. Established in 1971 as a trib...
Surprises When You Look Up at the Sky with Gamma-ray Goggles, Meng Su
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The 12th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 10, 2013 Dr. Meng Su, 2012--15 Pappalardo Fellow (Theoretical Astrophysics)
MIT Red Tailed Hawks (Spring 2004)
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In early spring 2004, a mating pair of red tailed hawks set up residence on the MIT campus in front of Building 9. These hawks were reported to have been building nests on the MIT campus for several years. They nested...
MIT Experimental Music Studio (ca. 1973)
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Interview with Barry Vercoe, MIT Associate Professor of Music and Director of the MIT Experimental Music Studio; Prof. Richard Hoffman of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music offers commentaries. Marcus Thompson (MIT Ass...
Apollo 11 Launch (1969) — Major Alexander P. de Seversky
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This short home movie taken by Major Alexander P. de Seversky, the Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor, shows a personal view of the APOLLO 11 launch and the attending audience. MIT Museum Collections.
Testing Galaxy Formation Models at the Small Scales, Dr. Simona Vegetti
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The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012 The distribution of masses of dwarf satellite galaxies that are observed around Local Group galaxies differs substantially from simulations ba...
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.
“Artificial Intelligence: Learning and the TEIRESIAS Program” (1981) — Prof. Randall Davis
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Professor Randall Davis of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a seminal contributor in the field of knowledge-based systems, gives a talk titled "Artificial Intelligence: Learning and ...
16th Killian Award Lecture No 2. (1988) — Jay W. Forrester, “The Common Foundation…”
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Professor Jay W. Forrester delivers the second of two lectures for the James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award, titled "The Common Foundation Underlying Physical and Social Systems: Applications of Systems Dy...
MIT OpenCourseWare Press Conference (April 4, 2001)
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On April 4, 2001, MIT President Charles Vest leads a press conference to announce the establishment of MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW), the web-based program to provide free access to MIT course content, including lecture ...
