Category: Inspiring Teachers
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 15 — Risk and Insurance
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population. Recorded 2011.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 22 — Probabilistic Inference II
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Recorded December 6, 2010.
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 09—Intensity, Generalized Elements
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Topics include: intensity; generalized elements; electrical and mechanical examples; Kirchhoff circuit laws; vector power, power factor; transformers; sources. Recorded: Oct. 5, 1995.
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 05—Reflection, Standing Waves, Network Synthesis
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Topics include: normal reflection; standing waves; lump parameter approximation; network synthesis. Recorded: Sept. 21, 1995.
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 18—Permanent Magnets
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Topics include: permanent magnets; omni vs. cardioid; first transatlantic cable; Norbert Wiener and first use of network synthesis; Kirchhoff's laws; magnetic materials and Alnico; future of electrical systems in auto...
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 12 — (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family
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Prof. Esther Duflo discusses what drives fertility decisions. Topics include family planning, population growth, quality-quantity trade off, and China's one-child policy, among other topics. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 22 — Entrepreneurs and Workers
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee talks about the relationship between the poor and entrepreneurship. Recorded 2011.
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 26—Acoustic Wave Technology
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Topics include: distortion; acoustic wave technology; reflections on the process of invention; active noise cancellation; Hilbert transforms; patents and the IPO; demonstration with Bose speaker. Recorded: Dec. 12, 1995.
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 15—Further Modeling
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Recorded: Oct. 31, 1995.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 03 — Social Experiments: Why and How?
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In this lecture, Prof. Esther Duflo talks about social experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty. Recorded 2011.
