Category: Inspiring Teachers
Champions of Teaching Excellence
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A. Neil Pappalardo ’64 is a champion of teaching excellence at MIT. Born in Rochester, New York, Neil Pappalardo received the S.B. degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Following graduation Neil pursued his int...
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 01 — Introduction
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee provides an introduction to the study of global poverty. The class dicusses the challenges of world poverty. Recorded 2011.
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.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 15 — Describing Functions
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Topics include: describing function analysis; example of oscillator; infinite gain limiter; gain phase plane. Recorded: 1985.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 02 — Reasoning: Goal Trees and Problem Solving
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Recorded September 13, 2010.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 04 — Stability
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Topics include: stability of feedback systems; characteristic equation; self-excited oscillator; stability for arbitrary systems; maintaining insight during the design process; Routh test; root locus methods. Recorded...
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 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 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.
