Category: From the Vault
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...
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...
Gyorgy Kepes Interview (1988)
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Gyorgy Kepes, founder of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), is interviewed at his home in Cambridge, MA, on the occasion of a California Polytechnic show on art and science in December 1988. The intervi...
“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 ...
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Introductory Remarks with Edmund Bertschinger
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Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics 10th Anniversary Celebration: October 8, 2010 Edmund Bertschinger, Head, Department of Physics
1999 MIT Commencement Exercises — Raymond and Thomas Magliozzi, Guest Speakers
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Raymond and Thomas Magliozzi, hosts of the National Public Radio series "Car Talk", are the commencement speakers on the occasion of the 1999 MIT Commencement Exercises. Commentaries by Prof. Samuel J. Keyser, Specia...
“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...
Playing with FIRE- The Edge of the Universe as seen from Magellan, Dr. Robert Simcoe
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Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics 10th Anniversary Celebration: October 8, 2010 Dr. Robert Simcoe 2003-2006 Pappalardo Fellow
14th Killian Award Lecture No. 1 (1986) — Franco Modigliani, “The Life Cycle Hypothesis”
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Professor Franco Modigliani's lecture, titled "Life Cycle Hypothesis of Savings", is the first of two talks he gave for the James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award Lecture series. Kresge Auditorium, April 2,...
“Victory and Science” (1945)
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This vintage silent film footage shows a range of World War II ordnance developed at MIT, on display at the campus on November 10-12, 1945. More than 75,000 people attended the event, giving the Boston-area public its...
