Category: From the Vault
“Hypothetical Risk: Cambridge City Council’s Hearings on Recombinant DNA Research” (1976)
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The film "Hypothetical Risk. The Cambridge City Council's hearings on DNA Experimentation in Cambridge" was recorded in June 1976 at City Hall in Cambridge, MA. Mayor Alfred Vellucci and city councillors Saundra Graha...
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...
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...
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 ...
17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration (1991)
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The Seventeenth Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration takes place January 18, 1991, and features Dr. Benjamin Hooks as keynote speaker. Four students also present a youth perspective on the significance of t...
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 27—Personal Reflections
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Dr. Bose addresses students during the last class of the Fall 1995 semester. He first illustrates an experiment about sound deterioration and normal modes, using multiple re-recordings of a piece of music, a human voi...
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.
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...
“Looking Back on The Bomb” (1963) – Science Reporter TV Series
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Vannevar Bush looks back over the years to share his views on some of the great events of his time. He touches on such topics as the role of a science advisor to the nation, the future of the computer, the gap between...
Ethics in Engineering and Science Forum (1988) — Sylvia Robins, Doug Ross and Ralph Nader
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Panel discussion at the Ethics in Engineering and Science Forum addressing issues of whistle-blowing and ethics with Sylvia Robins, Doug Ross, and Ralph Nader. Caroline Whitbeck, moderator. Held April 14, 1988.
