Category: From the Vault
Prof. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, CAES ILP Distinguished Lecture Series (1996)
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MIT Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus, guest speaker for the CAES ILP Distinguished Lecture Series, gives a talk titled "New Frontiers in Carbon Research — A Discussion of Recent Discoveries" on March 6, 1996...
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...
“Soft Machine” (1984) — Architecture Machine Group
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In this video the Architecture Machine Group (a think-tank laboratory that preceded MIT's current Media Lab) introduces the Interactive Graphical Robot System and Video Slidathon. As the computer states, "The man-comp...
Midnight Concert in Lobby 7 (1979)
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This beautiful midnight concert of Bach music held in Lobby 7 in December 1979 showcases the musical talents of the MIT community. Presented by the MIT Chamber Players and conducted by Prof. Marcus Aurelius Thompson. ...
Technology 1934
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This silent film, which offers us a marvelous vintage tour of the Institute, was produced by MIT in 1934 "for all who might be interested in knowing more about the Institute and its significance in the world of Scienc...
MIT’s Building 20: The Magical Incubator (1998)
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MIT's Building 20, built in 1943, was called the "Magical Incubator" because over the course of its long history it housed a range of laboratories involved in some of the most important and ground-breaking development...
The Disappearing Neutrino?, Dr. Joshua Spitz
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The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012 More than 80 years after its proposed existence, the neutrino remains mysterious and enigmatic. We don't know the mass of the neutrino, how ma...
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...
1996 MIT Commencement Address — Vice President Albert A. Gore
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Vice President Albert A. Gore gives the commencement address as Guest Speaker for the 1996 MIT Commencement Exercises, on June 7, 1996.
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...
