Category: Inspiring Teachers
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 02 — What is a Poverty Trap?
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Prof. Esther Duflo provides an introduction to the idea of poverty traps. Recorded 2011.
Amar Bose: Lecture 23—Fields and Air Absorption
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Topics include: direct and reverberant fields; air absorption; experiences recording orchestras; localization; stories about patent trials. Recorded: Nov. 30, 1995.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 11 — Feedback Compensation
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Topics include: feedback, or minor loop, compensation; example of tachometric feedback on servo-mechanism; open-loop transfer function of an operational amplifier. Recorded: 1985.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 23 — Model Merging, Cross Modal Coupling, Conclusion and Summary
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Recorded December 8, 2010.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 14 — Gender Discrimination
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee covers gender discrimination and uneven gender ratios in various countries, including India. Recorded 2011.
Amar Bose: 6.312 Lecture 22—Mean Free Path and Reverberation
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Topics include: sound in large irregular rooms; mean free path; reverberation time; direct and reverberant fields; effects of environments on music and voice. Recorded: Nov. 28, 1995.
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 11—Acoustical Elements
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Topics include: loop and node methods (review); mechanical circuits; acoustic elements; compliance, mass, resistance; three-node network. Recorded: Oct. 17, 1995.
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 10—Duality
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Topics include: transducers; KCL and KVL equations; loop and node methods; duality; mechanical circuits. Recorded: Oct. 12, 1995.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 21 — Probabilistic Inference I
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Recorded November 29, 2010.
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.