Category: Inspiring Teachers
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 14 — Gender Discrimination
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee covers gender discrimination and uneven gender ratios in various countries, including India. Recorded 2011.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 14 — Learning: Sparse Spaces, Phonology
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Recorded November 1, 2010.
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.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 09 — More Compensation
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Topics include: increasingly complex modifications of the loop-transmission; unity magnitude point; example: electronic regulator; lead transfer function; lag transfer function; lead and lag networks. Recorded: 1985.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 05 — Root Locus
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Topics include: root locus techniques; some rules for drawing a root locus diagram for a system. Recorded: 1985.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 11 — Education: The Man Made Trap
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the perceived returns of education and highlights various studies done on the subject. Recorded 2011.
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...
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 24 — Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role… Part 1
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Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? (Part 1). Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses theories and policies developed to help fight poverty. Recorded 2011.
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.
