MIT World
MIT World is a free, open streaming media web site of the most significant public events at MIT. It features the most recent speakers and guests from across the campus and around the world.
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Nov 25, 2007 MIT WorldThe Hydrogen Initiative: The Hydrogen Storage Challenge Mildred Dresselhaus <b>Mildred Dresselhaus</b> jumped on the hydrogen bandwagon following President Bushs call for scientists to pursue a Hydrogen Economy. She led the Department of Energy study laying out essential research avenue... -
Nov 25, 2007 MIT WorldJay Gatsby and the Myth of American Origins Leo Marx Americas supreme economic, political and military power in the world is matched, <br>says <b>Leo Marx</b>, by correspondingly ardent, patriotic, nationalistic thinking of a large number of Americans, dedicated to the idea of Amer... -
Nov 25, 2007 MIT WorldA Conversation with John M. Barry John M. Barry In conversation with <b>Richard Larson</b> and <b>Sanford Weiner</b>, <b>John Barry</b>, author of <i>The Great Influenza</i>, discusses current understanding of the dynamics of a flu outbreak, and our ge... -
Nov 20, 2007 MIT WorldLiving with Catastrophic Terrorism: Can Science and Technology Make the U.S. Safer? Lewis M. Branscomb After the terrorists attack of September 11, three Academies-the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine-sponsored a major study of the role... -
Nov 20, 2007 MIT WorldFractals in Science, Engineering and Finance (Roughness and Beauty) Benoit B. Mandelbrot Roughness is ubiquitous and a major sensory input of Man. The first step to measure and simulate it was provided by fractal geometry. Illustrative examples will be drawn from the sciences, engineering (the inter...
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Nov 20, 2007 MIT WorldBuilding Resilient Infrastructure to Combat Terrorism: Lessons from September 11th Professor Rae Zimmerman Building Resilient Infrastructure to Combat Terrorism: Lessons from September 11th Engineering Systems Division MIT World is a free, open, video streaming web site that provides on-demand vide... -
Nov 19, 2007 MIT WorldThe Story of American Freedom: 1776-2005 Eric Foner Although the idea of freedom is nearly ubiquitous in American public discourse -- and perhaps no more so than today it has been subject to a remarkable degree of flux over the course of the nations history. Eric Foner describes it as a subject o... -
Nov 19, 2007 MIT WorldThe Second Law and Statistical Mechanics Dick Bedeaux <B>Dick Bedeaux</B> patiently traces the evolution of the second law of thermodynamics from its formulation in the mid-19th century through today, from the perspective of statistical mechanics.<BR><BR> -
Nov 19, 2007 MIT WorldThe Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy Angela Belcher Daniel Nocera No single new technology can deliver limitless and clean energy, but <b>Daniel Nocera</b> and <b>Angela Belcher</b> are optimistic that they can harness the physical and natural worlds ... -
Nov 19, 2007 MIT WorldAerosols and Climate Professor John Seinfeld Professor Seinfeld is widely acknowledged for his research on the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere. Through both experimental and theoretical studies, he has made numerous contributions to the knowledge of the chemistry of the urban atmosphere, the... -
Nov 19, 2007 MIT WorldThoughts on the Evolution of Chemical Engineering: One MIT Perspective Robert A. Brown Thoughts on the Evolution of Chemical Engineering: One MIT Perspective Department of Chemical Engineering MIT World is a free, open, video streaming web site that provides on-demand video of significant public ev... -
Nov 19, 2007 MIT WorldThe Politically Correct Atomic Reactor Andrew C. Kadak With energy emerging as an issue of domestic and international importance, the Nuclear Engineering Department at MIT has been quietly working on a technology that it hopes will meet the challenge of providing a clean, safe, and reliable source o... -
Nov 15, 2007 MIT WorldThe Columbia Tragedy: System Level Issues for Engineering Sheila Widnall Among the tragedy of errors that doomed the space shuttle Columbia, perhaps the most damning were NASAs organizational blunders. Sheila Widnall served on the board investigating Columbias destruction in February, 2003, and she ... -
Nov 15, 2007 MIT WorldBetween Human And Machine:Feedback, Control and Computing Before Cybernetics David A. Mindell Today, the relationship between feedback, control and computing is associated with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, contr... -
Nov 15, 2007 MIT WorldTransforming the Next Century Rafael Reif Tomas Lozano-Perez Jeffrey H. Shapiro This panel serves as a fitting finale to the 100th anniversary celebration of EECS, focusing as it does on a fundamental shift in electrical engineering and computing toward biology, and toward a physics of the nearly un... -
Nov 15, 2007 MIT WorldThe Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies: Taking Nanotechnology from the Laboratory to the Soldier Edwin L. Thomas A U.S. Army soldier carries more than 100 pounds of gear into battle. What can be done to lighten the load, while still providing maximum protection? Edwin Thomas, Director of MITs ... -
Nov 15, 2007 MIT WorldThe Six Webs, 10 Years On Bill Joy Its a good thing that a decade ago, some engineers at Sun Microsystems became dissatisfied with the limitations of the desktop PC and with kludgy TV remote controls. Their frustrations, according to <b>Bill Joy</b>, led to technology breakthroughs we c... -
Nov 15, 2007 MIT WorldAn Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch Professor Gerald Sussman A mechanical watch is an oscillator driven by energy stored in a mainspring. The oscillations are counted by a gear train and displayed on a conventional watch face. How are the oscillations sensed and how is the energy ... -
Nov 15, 2007 MIT WorldThe Electron and the Bit: 100 Years of EECS at MIT Paul L. Penfield, Jr. In many ways, MITs Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) sits at the center of the university. Soon after the department was founded in 1903, more than 25% of all undergraduates chose to major in ele...
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