Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Title: Beethoven, Quarantined
Runtime: 4:39
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: During the pandemic lockdown, MIT music professor Evan Ziporyn transformed his orchestra class into a remote, online learning experience at lightning speed. Absent the essentials of a space with good acoustics, access to instruments — and the physical presence of other musicians — Ziporyn and 40 undergraduates, now scattered across several countries, found new ways to make their music come alive.

Still photographs by Jon Sachs, MIT SHASS Communications.

Video ©2020, Office of the Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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Musical conversation with Samantha Farrell (Podcast)

Title: Musical conversation with Samantha Farrell (Podcast)
Runtime: 11:21
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Samantha Farrell is the assistant to Vladimir Bulović, the director of MIT.nano, as well as a professional musician. Here, she talks about how music is keeping her focused, productive, and sane and how in times like these, “. . . the arts really shine, people’s humanity can really shine, and musicians and filmmakers and artists are needed more than ever.” (Listen on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mitnewsoffice/musical-conversation-with-samantha-farrell)

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Featured music in podcast (in order):

“Circles”
Written and performed by Samantha Farrell

“Nocturne”
Written and performed by Samantha Farrell

“Mad About You”
Written by Son Little
Matthew Pezone - electric guitar
Samantha Farrell - vocals

“I Don’t Know What’s Coming”
Written and performed by Samantha Farrell

Design problem: How to teach a hands-on course online

Title: Design problem: How to teach a hands-on course online
Runtime: 3:41
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Every spring at MIT, Amos Winter, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, co-teaches Course 2.007: Design and Manufacturing I. One of the most hands-on courses offered at MIT, it culminates in a popular robotics competition watched by thousands, that, due to the global pandemic will not be taking place this year. Here, Winter discusses the challenges – and silver linings – stemming from bringing a lab-oriented course online and how they chose to “… bring the students in,” when deciding a path forward.

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Title: Professor Mom
Runtime: 2:50
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Desiree Plata, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, juggles science projects with her children at home, while leading PhD-level science projects with her MIT lab family via Zoom. Putting her heart into both, she encourages her children and her students to use resources they have on hand to inform their projects. “At some point, we’re going to rush back into the lab and be very excited about that,” she says, “but in the meantime, we’re going to make the best of what we have available and that’ll lead to new and different ideas.” To see more about Desiree Plata’s lab watch: https://youtu.be/pOzog5if1sc

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Title: Dissertation (Un)interrupted
Runtime: 3:06
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Aidan Milliff, an MIT PhD student in international relations and security studies, had his work in India cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to return home to the United States. Here he discusses the challenges to finishing a dissertation in the midst of a pandemic, and the many people who helped get him home so his work could continue.

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Title: Virtual Hug
Runtime: 2:01
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: As an MIT senior majoring in computer science, Ariel Levy was on course to graduate this spring alongside close friends. "I wouldn't trade the 3.75 years I had for anything," she tells them over Zoom, as they share a virtual hug and reminisce about a beautiful early spring day they shared just before leaving campus.

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Title: Power of a Poster
Runtime: 2:44
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: When 11-year-old Sienna Zhao found out her dad - MIT alum Steve Zhao MBA ’09 - was helping to organize donations for PPEs with MIT, she knew she wanted to help. Here, MIT’s Vice President for Communications, Alfred Ironside, chats with the budding artist about her poster, how it helped her father’s efforts, and how it allowed her to create something meaningful she could, “. . . remember for a long time.”

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Spanning the distance: Maintaining a sense of community with John Dozier

Title: Spanning the distance: Maintaining a sense of community with John Dozier
Runtime: 3:11
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The MIT community, in doing its part to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, is physically distancing like most of the world. Here, Tom Gearty, from MIT.nano, checks in with John H. Dozier, MIT’s new Institute Community and Equity Officer. Dozier began his post right before campus was largely evacuated, forcing him to return home to South Carolina after only a week in Boston. He and Gearty chat about staying connected, innovating to solve problems, and why “There’s something to be said about getting to know people online.”

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I can save the world from my living room

Title: I can save the world from my living room
Runtime: 3:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: MIT engineering students Afeefah Khazi-Syed and Jeba Sania became close friends as active members of the MIT community. Now, even from a distance, their friendship and resolve to help make the world a better place continues to grow.

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Isolating together: Checking in with Anette “Peko” Hosoi

Title: Isolating together: Checking in with Anette “Peko” Hosoi
Runtime: 2:19
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The MIT community, like most of the world, is scattered and distancing due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Here, Mary Beth Gallagher, from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), checks in with Anette “Peko” Hosoi, a professor in MechE as well as the Associate Dean for Engineering in MIT’s School of Engineering. They chat about staying connected, innovating to solve problems, and why “MIT was made for this.”

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Tips for surviving social distancing from an MIT astronaut

Title: Tips for surviving social distancing from an MIT astronaut
Runtime: 5:01
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Keeping our distance from each other for an extended period of time is the most effective way to reduce COVID-19’s spread. But the prospect of prolonged social isolation is uncharted territory for many of us. To get some insight on how we might navigate this period of social separation, MIT News checked in with MIT alumna and former astronaut Cady Coleman, who perhaps had the ultimate isolation experience. (Listen to more audio content: http://soundcloud.com/mitnewsoffice)

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How to get conductive gels to stick when wet

Title: How to get conductive gels to stick when wet
Runtime: 2:06
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: A team of engineers at MIT has developed a new way of making polymers adhere to surfaces even with the introduction of moisture, that may enable better biomedical sensors and implants. (Read more: http://news.mit.edu/2020/conductive-gels-stick-wet-0320)

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Title: Robots learn to use their hands
Runtime: 1:39
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Having robots learn dexterous tasks requiring real-time hand-eye coordination is hard. Many tasks that we would consider simple, like hanging up a baseball cap on a rack, would be very challenging for most robot software. What's more, for a robot to learn each new task, it typically takes significant amounts of engineering time to program the robot. Pete Florence and Lucas Manuelli in the Robot Locomotion Group took a step closer to that goal with their work. Their paper will be presented at International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in May in Paris.

Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06933

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Exploring Ikebana: Teaching the art of Japanese flower arranging

Title: Exploring Ikebana: Teaching the art of Japanese flower arranging
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: For over 23 years, MIT-Japan Program has hosted a workshop on Ikebana, the art of Japanese flower arranging.

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Title: Minds and Hands at Work
Runtime: 3:12
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Possibility, ingenuity, artistry, continuous learning—making is in MIT’s DNA. Take a look inside some of MIT’s makerspaces, where students get access to the tools they need to build on MIT’s long history of inventiveness. And learn how the forthcoming Metropolitan Warehouse makerspace will forge a new maker community at MIT.

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Title: Learn to scratch from a DJ master
Runtime: 1:41
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: During MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP), DJ Rob Swift was invited to teach a workshop on the six fundamental scratch techniques and the history of the culture of this art form. (Learn more about IAP: https://web.mit.edu/iap/about/index.html)

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Title: Powering the planet
Runtime: 1:53
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: As the world moves towards cleaner and sustainable sources of energy, one of the major challenges is converting efficiently between electrical and chemical energy. This is the challenge undertaken by Fikile Brushett, associate professor of chemical engineering, and his colleagues, who are trying to push the frontiers of electrochemical technology. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-powering-the-planet-fikile-brushett-0129)

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Title: 3D printing with living organisms
Runtime: 3:25
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: A method for printing 3D objects that can control living organisms in predicable ways has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere. This technique may lead to 3D printing of biomedical tools that can be customized to fit the physical body and biomarkers of its users. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2020/3-d-bioprinting-living-materials-0123)

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Title: December
Runtime: 1:06
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Kris Guay, who works in MIT Admissions, penned a poem capturing the essence of December in New England — when the days grow short, and our thoughts turn to family, friends, and home. Illustration, animation design and production: Christine Daniloff/MIT. Season’s greetings!

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December

a few leaves are left
dangling from splintered branches
russet crinkly skins
curled up tight beneath a blanket
of grey white

while inside
fluorescent light insinuates day
onto faces of so many silent travelers
and buildings, street lamps, rows of houses
slip by in steady rhythm

all of us
sit waiting for the day’s approaching end
dreaming of family
of holidays
...

Title: MIT Trashion Show
Runtime: 4:56
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The MIT Trashion Show is an annual fashion show that celebrates creative fashion design and promotes waste reduction and sustainability. Student designers from MIT and other Boston-area schools create pieces made of trash and recycled materials, which are then modeled on the runway.

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Title: Mining the Deep Sea
Runtime: 19:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Mining minerals found 15,000 feet below sea level could help secure a low-carbon future, but at what cost? Researchers including Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, are racing to understand the environmental impact of deep-sea mining. CORRECTION: Clarion-Clipperton Zone footage courtesy of "The DeepCCZ Project."

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Make way for Little HERMES, the lightweight bipedal robot

Title: Make way for Little HERMES, the lightweight bipedal robot
Runtime: 2:39
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Engineers at MIT have designed a new lightweight bipedal robot, that can lean from side to side, walk in place, and jump while keeping its balance. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2019/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-jumping-1030)

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MIT economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee win Nobel Prize (press conference)

Title: MIT economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee win Nobel Prize (press conference)
Runtime: 52:32
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, MIT economists whose work has helped transform antipoverty research and relief efforts, have been named co-winners of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with another co-winner, Harvard University economist Michael Kremer. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2019/esther-duflo-abhijit-banerjee-win-2019-nobel-prize-economics-1014)

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Title: The science of cornstarch and water
Runtime: 2:00
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: When you mix cornstarch and water, weird things happen. Sometimes it acts like a liquid and sometimes it acts like a solid. Now, a team of MIT engineers have developed a mathematical model that can accurately predict this material's behavior under various conditions. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2019/oobleck-behavior-predict-cornstarch-1006)

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MIT Task Force On The Work Of The Future

Title: MIT Task Force On The Work Of The Future
Runtime: 1:16:39
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: "Automation will transform our work, our lives, our society," MIT President L. Rafael Reif said at today's briefing on a new MIT Work of the Future Task Force report. "Whether the outcome is inclusive or exclusive, fair or laissez-faire, is up to us – all of us." (Read the report: http://news.mit.edu/2019/work-future-report-technology-jobs-society-0904)

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MIT’s Office of Engineering Outreach Programs (OEOP)

Title: MIT’s Office of Engineering Outreach Programs (OEOP)
Runtime: 3:36
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: MIT’s Office of Engineering Outreach Programs (OEOP) is committed to creating a robust pipeline of students who excel in STEM. For over 40 years, we’ve opened the doors to MIT by offering highly motivated and diverse students the chance to pursue their passion for STEM free of charge.

Too often, students’ zip codes play a larger role in determining their educational opportunities than do their abilities. Our mission is to diversify the science and engineering communities by engaging historically underrepresented and underserved middle- and high-school students. Nearly 70 percent of OEOP students come from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, 80 percent are underrepresented students of color, and 50 percent are female. A great many of OEOP students will go on to be the first in their family to graduate from college.

With more than 2,200 applicants a year, OEOP students pass through an admissions process that is nearly as rigorous and selective as MI...

Title: MIT's 50-year club
Runtime: 4:48
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Maria Bachini and Steve Dimond are two of 47 MIT employees with more than 50 years of service to the Institute. “It might seem odd,” Dimond says, “but I can’t ever remember a day waking up and dreading getting up to go to MIT.”

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Title: Robo-thread
Runtime: 2:58
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide through narrow, winding pathways, such as the labyrinthine vasculature of the brain. (Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-brain-blood-vessels-0828)

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Title: This is MIT
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, and technology; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place.

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Title: Understanding neural networks
Runtime: 3:07
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: MIT-IBM Watson AI lab research team member David Bau explains how computers show evidence of learning the structure of the physical world.

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The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, LIGO, gravitational waves, mathematics, and bombardier beetles, as well as videos on origami, time capsules, and other aspects of life and culture on the MIT campus. Our goal is to open the doors of MIT and br...

Point of inception: Creating sustainability-oriented innovations from the start

Title: Point of inception: Creating sustainability-oriented innovations from the start
Runtime: 3:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Desiree Plata and her students in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are finding ways to solve environmental problems of the past — and prevent those of the future.

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President L. Rafael Reif’s charge to the Class of 2019

Title: President L. Rafael Reif’s charge to the Class of 2019
Runtime: 15:01
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: "Hack the world." (Read his full charge: )

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Michael Bloomberg at MIT Commencement 2019

Title: Michael Bloomberg at MIT Commencement 2019
Runtime: 22:40
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Michael Bloomberg, the successful entrepreneur and three-term mayor of New York City who has become one of the nation’s most prominent philanthropists and fearless voices on gun violence, climate change, public health, and other issues, delivers the address at MIT’s 2019 Commencement exercises on Friday, June 7.

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The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, LIGO, gravitational waves, mat...

Squire Booker PhD '94 at 2019 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Degree Conferral Ceremony

Title: Squire Booker PhD '94 at 2019 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Degree Conferral Ceremony
Runtime: 13:58
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: MIT alumnus and now a professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology at Penn State University, Squire J. Booker PhD ’94, addresses the audience at MIT’s 2019 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Degree Conferral Ceremony.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, and technology; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place.

The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, LIGO, gravitational waves, mathematics, and bombardier beetles, as well as videos on origami, time capsules, an...

Only one, but always different: The MIT Brass Rat

Title: Only one, but always different: The MIT Brass Rat
Runtime: 5:18
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Each year, the MIT class ring, affectionately nicknamed the Brass Rat, is redesigned by a committee of 12 students from the second-year class. The committee is responsible for designing, premiering, selling, and delivering the ring to its class. Since its introduction in 1929, the Brass Rat has become a symbol of MIT, as well as one of the most recognizable rings worldwide. (Learn more about the ring: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/history-of-the-brass-rat/)

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, and technology; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better pl...

Title: The heart of the matter
Runtime: 2:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Irene Chen is a third year PhD student at MIT working to advance machine learning to help doctors and other clinicians improve health care. With her supervisor, David Sontag, and Boston-area hospitals, Chen is taking on the challenge of heart failure. After diagnosis, Chen says, heart failure patients live an average of five years. She wants to develop techniques that will make diagnosis more accurate and improve the treatment and quality of life among patients -- based on their age, past history, lab results, and other factors that can be modeled and better understood using new and more sensitive tools in machine learning.

“The techniques that we have right now just aren’t enough,” Chen says. “Health care has a long history of having disparate impacts on different groups.” Even in today’s clinical trials, she explains, the people serving as test subjects for new drugs do not represent the diversity of the general public. “The hope is that when we have acces...

The Future of Computing: MIT President L. Rafael Reif

Title: The Future of Computing: MIT President L. Rafael Reif
Runtime: 0:44
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: MIT President L. Rafael Reif talks about the importance of "bilinguals" to the future of computing and AI.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, and technology; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place.

The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, LIGO, gravitational waves, mathematics, and bombardier beetles, as well as videos on origami, time capsules, and other aspects of life and culture on the MIT campus. Our goal is to open the doors of MIT and bring the Institute to the world t...

Creating a College: Stephen A. Schwarzman

Title: Creating a College: Stephen A. Schwarzman
Runtime: 0:21
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman, CEO and co-founder of the Blackstone Group, talks about what motivated his gift to create the new College of Computing.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, and technology; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place.

The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, LIGO, gravitational waves, mathematics, and bombardier beetles, as well as videos on origami, time capsules, and other aspects of life and culture on the MIT campus. Our goal is to open the doors...

An MIT Moment: MIT Chamber Chorus performs in Lobby 7

Title: An MIT Moment: MIT Chamber Chorus performs in Lobby 7
Runtime: 1:49
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The MIT Chamber Chorus is a small student group that performs on campus under the direction of Dr. William Cutter. Designed for the more vocally and musically advanced singer, this select ensemble is challenged with a wide variety of repertoire including music for a capella chorus as well as choral works accompanied by small ensembles or piano.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, and technology; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place.

The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, ...

Curious about Curling? Meet the MIT club

Title: Curious about Curling? Meet the MIT club
Runtime: 4:38
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: For many people, including those that participate, the sport of curling is somewhat of a mystery. "There's a lot of science behind curling, including some that's actually not so well understood," says graduate student Nate Bailey, a member of the MIT Curling Club. "I think it works at MIT because of that curiosity," sophomore Leanne Galanek adds. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2019/featured-video-throwing-stones-mit-curling-0404)

MIT Curling Club: http://curling.mit.edu/

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, and technology; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to mak...

Title: Particle robots
Runtime: 3:02
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Researchers from MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have developed computationally simple robots that connect in large groups to move around, transport objects, and complete other tasks. (Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2019/particle-robot-cluster-simple-units-0320)

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, and technology; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place.

The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, LIGO, gravitational waves, mathematics, and bombardier beetles, as well as ...

Title: Welcome to CELEBRATE: The College!
Runtime: 31:36
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: MIT Faculty Chair Susan S. Silbey, the Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology, and Anthropology and a professor of behavioral and policy sciences at the MIT Sloan School of Management, offers an introduction at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. MIT President L. Rafael Reif welcomes attendees at the celebration and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker gives opening remarks. This historic three-day event provided a thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of the ideas behind the founding of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the frontiers it intends to reach.

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, made possible by a $350 million foundational gift from the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, marks the single largest investment in computing and AI by an American academic institution, and it will help position the United States to lead the world in preparing for the rapid evolution of computing and AI.

Title: SOLVE 2019 Announcement
Runtime: 3:55
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Alex Amouyel, executive director of Solve, announces the 2019 Solve Global Challenges
at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. This historic three-day event provided a thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of the ideas behind the founding of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the frontiers it intends to reach.

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, made possible by a $350 million foundational gift from the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, marks the single largest investment in computing and AI by an American academic institution, and it will help position the United States to lead the world in preparing for the rapid evolution of computing and AI.

In fields far beyond engineering and science — from political science and urban studies to anthropology and linguistics — some of today’s most exciting new research is fueled by advanced computational capabilities. The MIT Schwarzman College of Comp...

Title: MIT Schwarzman Celebrate Closing
Runtime: 4:52
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: MIT Provost Martin A. Schmidt, the Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, offers closing remarks at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. This historic three-day event provided a thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of the ideas behind the founding of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the frontiers it intends to reach.

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, made possible by a $350 million foundational gift from the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, marks the single largest investment in computing and AI by an American academic institution, and it will help position the United States to lead the world in preparing for the rapid evolution of computing and AI.
In fields far beyond engineering and science — from political science and urban studies to anthropology and linguistics — some of today’s most exciting new research is fueled by advanced computational capabilitie...

How the Enlightenment Ends: A Conversation

Title: How the Enlightenment Ends: A Conversation
Runtime: 30:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Dr. Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, discusses how the enlightenment ends with Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs columnist at The New York Times and author of Thank You for Being Late at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. This historic three-day event provided a thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of the ideas behind the founding of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the frontiers it intends to reach.

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, made possible by a $350 million foundational gift from the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, marks the single largest investment in computing and AI by an American academic institution, and it will help position the United States to lead the world in preparing for the rapid evolution of computing and AI.
In fields far beyond engineering and science — from political science and urban studies to anthropology and linguistics �...

Title: Creating a College: A Conversation
Runtime: 35:01
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Becky Quick, co-anchorwoman of “Squawk Box” and “On the Money,” moderates a conversation on creating a college between Stephen A. Schwarzman and MIT President L. Rafael Reif at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. This historic three-day event provided a thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of the ideas behind the founding of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the frontiers it intends to reach.

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, made possible by a $350 million foundational gift from the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, marks the single largest investment in computing and AI by an American academic institution, and it will help position the United States to lead the world in preparing for the rapid evolution of computing and AI.
In fields far beyond engineering and science — from political science and urban studies to anthropology and linguistics — some of today’s most exciting new research i...

Computing the Future: Setting New Directions (Part 1)

Title: Computing the Future: Setting New Directions (Part 1)
Runtime: 1:24:09
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: MIT Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart, the Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering, offers an introduction to the session on “Computing the Future: Setting New Directions” at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. This historic three-day event provided a thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of the ideas behind the founding of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the frontiers it intends to reach. Session includes: David Siegel, co-chairman of Two Sigma Investments and a founding advisor of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, offers remarks on how he learned to stop worrying and love algorithms. Diane Greene, director of Alphabet, SAP, and Stripe, speaks about the importance of industry and academia collaboration in computing, Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, discusses the human-machine partnership at the celebration and John E. Kelly III, executive vice president of IBM, offers remarks on the future of computing and AI at the celebration of...

Computing the Future: Setting New Directions (Part 2)

Title: Computing the Future: Setting New Directions (Part 2)
Runtime: 24:22
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Antonio Torralba, the MIT director of the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab; the inaugural director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence; and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science offers a second introduction to the session on “Computing the Future: Setting New Directions” at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. This historic three-day event provided a thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of the ideas behind the founding of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the frontiers it intends to reach. Session includes: Joshua B. Tenenbaum, professor of computational cognitive science, discussing his research on scaling AI the human way, Dimitris Bertsimas, the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, discussing interpretable AI, Aleksander Mądry, an associate professor of computer science, discusses if AI is human-ready, Regina Barzilay, the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and ...

Computing: Reflections and the Path Forward

Title: Computing: Reflections and the Path Forward
Runtime: 47:25
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: MIT Chancellor for Academic Advancement W. Eric L. Grimson, the Bernard M. Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering, offers an introduction to the session on “Computing: Reflections and the Path Forward” at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. This historic three-day event provided a thoughtful, wide-ranging exploration of the ideas behind the founding of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the frontiers it intends to reach. Session presenters include: Sherry Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, gives a talk on rethinking friction in digital culture at the celebration, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering, speaks about his research on rebooting the World Wide Web, and Patrick H. Winston, the Ford Professor of Engineering, provides a retrospective on AI and computing at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing.

The MI...

Title: Computing for the People: Ethics and AI
Runtime: 42:59
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Melissa Nobles, Kenan Sahin Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and a professor of Political Science offers an introduction to a session on “Computing for the People: Ethics and AI” at the celebration of the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs columnist at The New York Times and author of Thank You for Being Late, moderates a panel on ethics featuring Ursula Burns, executive chairman and CEO of VEON, Ltd; Ash Carter, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and former US Secretary of Defense; Jennifer Chayes, technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research New England, New York City, and Montreal; Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab; Megan Smith, founder and CEO of shift7 and former US Chief Technology Officer; and Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation.

This historic three-day event provided a thoughtful, wide-ra...

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