Category: From the Vault
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...
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...
“Quicker ‘n a Wink” (1940) — Prof. Harold E. Edgerton
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Directed by George Sidney, Quicker 'n a Wink introduces MIT Professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton who demonstrates strobe photography. This film allows us to see what happens at speeds too fast to be discerned by the naked ...
Quantum Walks with Integrated Photonics, Yoav Lahini
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The 12th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 10, 2013 Dr. Yoav Lahini, 2012--15 Pappalardo Fellow (Theoretical & Experimental Condensed Matter)
“Founders’ Philosophies” (1976) — Julius A. Stratton
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MIT President Emeritus Julius A. Stratton delivers an illuminating talk titled "Founders' Philosophies," as the first in a series of nine presentations by various MIT luminaries for an IAP (Independent Activities Peri...
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...
“Camp Technology” (1936)
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This vintage film from 1936 shows the daily routines of work (and play) at MIT's surveying camp for civil engineering students. It was known affectionately as "Camp Technology" and for years was held at a site on the ...
“Returning From the Moon” (1966) — Science Reporter TV Series
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This 1966 "Science Reporter" television program tackles the challenges of getting the Apollo Command Module safely back from space through the atmosphere to Earth—one of the most forbidding hurdles of the Apollo progr...
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.
Technology Day 2002 — “When Worlds Collide: Science, Politics and Power in the 21st Century”
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MIT's Technology Day 2002, on the theme "When Worlds Collide: Science, Politics and Power in the 21st Century," features the following speakers: Ronald G. Prinn CM '71 ("From Complex Science to Contentious Policy: Les...
