Category: Inspiring Teachers
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 25 — Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role… Part 2
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Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? (Part 2). Professor Abhijit Banerjee discusses the impact of political economics on the world's poor. 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.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 16 — Learning: Support Vector Machines
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Recorded November 8, 2010.
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.
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.
Amar G. Bose: 6.312 Lecture 19—Microphones
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Topics include: microphones; pressure sensitive and pressure-gradient (velocity) microphones; Prof. Ernst A. Guillemin (MIT professor of network theory); Maurice Maeterlink; proximity effect. Recorded: Nov. 14, 1995.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 09 — Constraints: In Visual Object Recognition
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Recorded October 13th, 2010.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 08 — Health: Low Hanging Fruit?
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Prof. Esther Duflo discusses some of the most effective and cheapest ways to promote good health, such as bednets, immunization, and breast feeding. Recorded 2011.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 11 — Learning: Identification Trees, Disorder
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Recorded October 18th, 2010.
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.
