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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...

Population Genetics in a Petri Dish, Dr. Kirill Korolev

Teaching Excellence at MIT 12 years ago

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The 10th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 13, 2011 Dr. Kirill Korolev, 2010--2013 Pappalardo Fellow (Soft Condensed Matter Theory & Biophysics) The evolution of natural populations involves...

“Soft Machine” (1984) — Architecture Machine Group

Teaching Excellence at MIT 13 years ago

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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...

“Big City 1980” (1961) — MIT Centennial Film

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MIT professor and architectural engineer John E. Burchard '23 accompanies the program host, Garry Moore, as they consider together what the urban future holds: how and where we will live in 1980, twenty years ahead? T...

“History of the Strobe” (1984) — Prof. Harold “Doc” Edgerton

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Professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton delivers one of his ever popular lectures about his life's work, in his talk titled "The History of the Strobe" delivered in Room 34-101 for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Hist...

Graphene Twist and Rock-n-Roll, Dr. Michael Fogler

Teaching Excellence at MIT 12 years ago

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Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics 10th Anniversary Celebration: October 8, 2010 Dr. Michael Fogler 200-2003 Pappalardo Fellow

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...

“Bountiful Grant of the Sea” (1972) — Prof. Athelsan Spilhaus

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Prof. Athelsan Spilhaus '33, inventor of the bathythermograph, gives the inaugural lecture, titled "Bountiful Grant of the Sea", for the MIT Sea Grant Program Convocation celebration on September 27, 1972. Introducti...