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Making wrinkles - hydrogels that collapse into complex shapes may aid in drug delivery

Title: Making wrinkles - hydrogels that collapse into complex shapes may aid in drug delivery
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The flexible properties of hydrogels — highly absorbent, gelatinous polymers that shrink and expand depending on environmental conditions such as humidity, pH and temperature — have made them ideal for applications from contact lenses to baby diapers and adhesives.

In recent years, researchers have investigated hydrogels' potential in drug delivery, engineering them into drug-carrying vehicles that rupture when exposed to certain environmental stimuli. Such vesicles may slowly release their contents in a controlled fashion; they may even contain more than one type of drug, released at different times or under various conditions.

However, it's difficult to predict just how hydrogels will rupture, and up until now it's been difficult to control the shape into which a hydrogel morphs. Nick Fang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says predicting how hydrogels transform could help in the design of more complex and effective drug-deliver...

the MIT Science Fiction Society

Title: the MIT Science Fiction Society
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Read more about the MIT Science Fiction Society at MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/science-fiction-society-library-0507.html

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Press conference: MIT, Harvard announce edX

Title: Press conference: MIT, Harvard announce edX
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT President Susan Hockfield and Harvard University President Drew Faust, accompanied by top officials from both institutions, announced on Wednesday a new collaboration that will unite the Cambridge-based universities in an ambitious new partnership to deliver online education to learners anywhere in the world.

The new venture, called edX, will provide interactive classes from both Harvard and MIT — for free — to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. But a key goal of the project, Faust said, is "to enhance the educational experience of students who study in our classrooms and laboratories."

Read the initial announcement — http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mit-harvard-edx-announcement-050212.html
FAQ: What is edX? — http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/edx-faq-050212.html
Read the event coverage — http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/edx-launched-0502.html

Title: Fog-free glass
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: One of the most instantly recognizable features of glass is the way it reflects light. But a new way of creating surface textures on glass, developed by researchers at MIT, virtually eliminates reflections, producing glass that is almost unrecognizable because of its absence of glare — and whose surface causes water droplets to bounce right off, like tiny rubber balls.

The new "multifunctional" glass, based on surface nanotextures that produce an array of conical features, is self-cleaning and resists fogging and glare, the researchers say. Ultimately, they hope it can be made using an inexpensive manufacturing process that could be applied to optical devices, the screens of smartphones and televisions, solar panels, car windshields and even windows in buildings.

The technology is described in a paper published in the journal ACS Nano, co-authored by mechanical engineering graduate students Kyoo-Chul Park and Hyungryul Choi, former postdoc Chih-Hao Chang SM ...

Professor Anant Agarwal on MITx

Title: Professor Anant Agarwal on MITx
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A decade ago, MIT broke ground with its OpenCourseWare initiative, which made MIT course materials, such as syllabi and lecture notes, publicly accessible. But over the last five years, MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif has led an effort to move the complete MIT classroom experience online, with video lectures, homework assignments, lab work — and a grade at the end.

That project, called MITx, launched late last year. On March 16, Reif announced that MIT Professor Anant Agarwal would step down as director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in order to lead MIT's Open Learning Enterprise, which will oversee MITx's development.

Learn more about Agarwal and MITx at: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mitx-anant-agarwal-profile-0420.html

From MIT News - MIT launches online learning initiative: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html
What is MITx?: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mi...

Title: Shifting sands
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - April 6, 2012

Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model. From far away, flowing sand resembles a liquid, streaming down the center of an hourglass like water from a faucet. But up close, one can make out individual grains that slide against each other, forming a mound at the base that holds its shape, much like a solid.

Sand's curious behavior — part fluid, part solid — has made it difficult for researchers to predict how it and other granular materials flow under various conditions. A precise model for granular flow would be particularly useful in optimizing processes such as pharmaceutical manufacturing and grain production, where tiny pills and grains pour through industrial chutes and silos in mass quantities. When they aren't well-controlled, such large-scale flows can cause blockages that are costly and sometimes dangerous to clear.

Now Ken Kam...

Smart sand & robot pebbles

Title: Smart sand & robot pebbles
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - April 2, 2012

Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model.

That may sound like a scene from a Harry Potter novel, but it's the vision animating a research project at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. At the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in May — the world's premier robotics conference — DRL researchers will present a paper describing algorithms that could enable such "smart sand." They also describe experiments in which they tested the algorithms on somewhat larger particles — cubes about 10 millimeters to an edge, with rudimentary microprocessors inside and very unusual magnets on four of their sides.

Unlike many other approaches to re...

Title: the Buckliball
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - March 26, 2012

Motivated by the desire to determine the simplest 3-D structure that could take advantage of mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, a group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University were stymied — until one of them happened across a collapsible, spherical toy that resembled the structures they'd been exploring, but with a complex layout of 26 solid moving elements and 48 rotating hinges.

The toy inspired the engineers to create the "buckliball," a hollow, spherical object made of soft rubber containing no moving parts, but fashioned with 24 carefully spaced dimples. When the air is sucked out of a buckliball with a syringe, the thin ligaments forming columns between lateral dimples collapse. This is the engineering equivalent of applying equal load on all beams in a structure simultaneously to induce buckling, a phenomenon first studied by mathematician Leonhard Euler in 1757.

When the buckliball's thin l...

Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail

Title: Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - March 23, 2012

It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers, from ancient Rome to the modern Soviet Union, expand and then collapse?

From Adam Smith and Max Weber to the current day, scores of writers have grappled with these questions. Some scholars, like Weber, have argued that religious or cultural differences create vastly different economic outcomes among countries. Others have asserted that a lack of natural resources or technical expertise has prevented poor countries from creating self-sustaining economic growth.

Economists Daron Acemoglu of MIT and James Robinson of Harvard University have another answer: Politics makes the difference. Countries that have what they call "inclusive" political governments — those extending political and property rights as broadly as possib...

The Paradiso Synthesizer

Title: The Paradiso Synthesizer
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - March 14, 2012

In 1973, Media Lab associate professor Joe Paradiso was an undergraduate at Tufts University, and didn't know anyone who had built an analog music synthesizer, or "synth," from scratch.

It was a time, he says, when information and parts for do-it-yourself projects were scarce, and digital synthesizer production was on the rise. But, he decided to tackle the project — without any formal training — and sought out advice from local college professors, including his now-colleague in the Media Lab, Barry Vercoe. Paradiso gathered information from manufacturers' data sheets and hobbyist magazines he found in public libraries. He taught himself basic electronics, scrounged for parts from surplus stores and spent a decade and a half building modules and hacking consumer keyboards to create the synth, which he completed in the 1980s.

That synthesizer, probably the world's largest with more than 125 modules (http://web....

Weather in a tank

Title: Weather in a tank
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: March 21, 2012

Fluid dynamics plays a central role in determining Earth's climate. Ocean currents and eddies stir up contents from the deep, while atmospheric winds and weather systems steer temperature and moisture around the globe. As the planet spins on its axis, this rotation can significantly affect fluid motion. To fully understand how climate works, researchers at MIT say students must first understand how Earth's rotation affects winds and currents.

"Rotating fluids are not intuitive," says Lodovica Illari, a meteorologist and senior lecturer in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).

Since 2001, Illari and her colleague John Marshall, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, have worked to make rotating fluid dynamics more intuitive for undergraduate students studying weather and climate, using a demonstration aptly named "Weather in a Tank."

Read more at MIT News: http://web.mi...

Greenhouse Gas Can Find a Home Underground

Title: Greenhouse Gas Can Find a Home Underground
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - March 20, 2012

A new study by researchers at MIT shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least a century's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's coal-fired powerplants. Though questions remain about the economics of systems to capture and store such gases, this study addresses a major issue that has overshadowed such proposals.

The MIT team's analysis — led by Ruben Juanes, the ARCO Associate Professor in Energy Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and part of the doctoral thesis work of graduate students Christopher MacMinn PhD '12 and Michael Szulczewski — is published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Read more at MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/greenhouse-gas-in-aquifers-0320.html

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Guiding robot planes with hand gestures

Title: Guiding robot planes with hand gestures
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - March 14, 2012

Aircraft-carrier crew use a set of standard hand gestures to guide planes on the carrier deck. But as robot planes are increasingly used for routine air missions, researchers at MIT are working on a system that would enable them to follow the same types of gestures.

The problem of interpreting hand signals has two distinct parts. The first is simply inferring the body pose of the signaler from a digital image: Are the hands up or down, the elbows in or out? The second is determining which specific gesture is depicted in a series of images. The MIT researchers are chiefly concerned with the second problem; they present their solution in the March issue of the journal ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. But to test their approach, they also had to address the first problem, which they did in work presented at last year's IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.

Yale Son...

Optimal paths for automated underwater vehicles (AUVs)

Title: Optimal paths for automated underwater vehicles (AUVs)
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - March 8, 2012

Sometimes the fastest pathway from point A to point B is not a straight line: for example, if you're underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents. But figuring out the best route in such settings is a monumentally complex problem — especially if you're trying to do it not just for one underwater vehicle, but for a swarm of them moving all at once toward separate destinations.

But that's just what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May at the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The team, led by Pierre Lermusiaux, the Doherty Associate Professor in Ocean Utilization, developed a mathematical procedure that can optimize path planning for automated underwater vehicles (AUVs), even in regions with complex shorelines and strong shifting currents. The system can provide paths optimized either for the shortest travel time or for the mini...

Studying scientists with Pierre Azoulay

Title: Studying scientists with Pierre Azoulay
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - February 29, 2012

Pierre Azoulay, an economist at MIT Sloan, studies how life scientists work — or, more precisely, what makes them work well. Which kinds of grants lead to the most creative scientific research? When elite scientists die or switch jobs, what happens to the output of their former colleagues and co-authors?

Information about those questions is just not readily available. Except to Azoulay: The hard numbers supporting his findings come from a unique database charting the careers of 12,000 scientific stars, which he has painstakingly built up over nearly a decade in collaboration with Joshua Graff Zivin, an economist at the University of California at San Diego.

Read more at MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/profile-azoulay-0229.html

Video: Melanie Gonick

Mysterious electron acceleration explained

Title: Mysterious electron acceleration explained
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - February 27, 2012

A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with details of the spacecraft observations. The finding could not only solve an astrophysical puzzle, but might also lead to a better ability to predict high-energy electron streams in space that could damage satellites.

Jan Egedal, an associate professor of physics at MIT and a researcher at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, working with MIT graduate student Ari Le and with William Daughton of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), report on this solution to the space conundrum in a paper published Feb. 26 in the journal Nature Physics.

Egedal had initially proposed a theory to explain this large-scale acceleration of electrons in Earth's magnetotail — a vast and intense magnetic field swept outward from Earth by the solar wind — but until the new dat...

Unique languages, universal patterns

Title: Unique languages, universal patterns
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - February 23, 2012

To the chagrin of anyone who knows one of these languages but not the other, English and Japanese appear to be frustratingly different tongues governed by drastically different rules. And yet, under the surface, English and Japanese have deep similarities, as MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa argues in his new book, Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order, published this month in Routledge's "Leading Linguists" series.

In turn, the similarities between English and Japanese underscore a larger point about human language, in Miyagawa's view: All its varieties exist within a relatively structured framework. Languages are different, but not radically different. Dating to the 1950s, in fact, much of MIT's linguistics program has aimed to identify the similar pathways that apparently unrelated languages take.

"There is this very interesting tension in language between diversity and uniformity," says Miyagawa, the Kochi P...

Making Nanodroplets Drop Faster

Title: Making Nanodroplets Drop Faster
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT News - February 23, 2012

MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Nenad Miljkovic discusses his team's work on condensation, nanodroplet formation, and new nanopatterned surfaces that could boost the efficiency of power plants and desalination systems.

Read more at MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/droplets-nanopatterns-0223.html

Video: Nenad Miljkovic
Music: Alastair Cameron

Moving past trial-and-error with Richard Braatz

Title: Moving past trial-and-error with Richard Braatz
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Richard Braatz, a professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, believes mathematics can help streamline the road to discovery in pharmaceutical manufacturing as well as nanotechnology.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Impurity-to-Efficiency (I2E) Simulation Tool

Title: Impurity-to-Efficiency (I2E) Simulation Tool
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: An online tool called "Impurities to Efficiency" (known as I2E) allows companies or researchers exploring alternative manufacturing strategies to plug in descriptions of their planned materials and processing steps. After about one minute of simulation, I2E gives an indication of exactly how efficient the resulting solar cell would be in converting sunlight to electricity.

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/impurities-to-efficiency-software-0207.html
Video: Ashley Morishige

Harnessing nature's solar cells

Title: Harnessing nature's solar cells
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has a vision that within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Michael Demkowicz - Extreme materials

Title: Michael Demkowicz - Extreme materials
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Assistant professor in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering Michael Demkowicz designs materials for extreme environments such as high temperature, high stress and radiation damage.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Bob Weinberg and cancer

Title: Bob Weinberg and cancer
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Bob Weinberg is a Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Weinberg lab is known for its discoveries of the first human oncogene -- the ras oncogene that causes normal cells to form tumors, and the isolation of the first known tumor suppressor gene - the Rb gene.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Bill Gates - Bright minds and big problems

Title: Bill Gates - Bright minds and big problems
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Bill Gates, philanthropist and retired co-founder of Microsoft Corp., urged MIT students on April 21, 2010 to focus their talent and energy on tackling the world's biggest challenges, including global health, poverty and education.

President Obama at MIT

Title: President Obama at MIT
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: On Oct. 23, 2009, MIT proudly hosted a visit by President Barack Obama, which caused great excitement on campus and in the MIT community around the world. This short video produced by the MIT News Office captures the day's highlights.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC)

Title: Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC)
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Amos Winter discusses the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC) and results of recent trials in East Africa.

Video: Melanie Gonick

MIT's Jeffrey Grossman - Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time

Title: MIT's Jeffrey Grossman - Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Jeffrey Grossman is profiled.

Video: Melanie Gonick

MIT's Polina Golland - The quantifier

Title: MIT's Polina Golland - The quantifier
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

MIC visualization of datasets

Title: MIC visualization of datasets
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A short visualization of the usage of MIC for exploring the structure within a
data set from the World Health Organization and its partner organizations. Video: David Reshef

Read more at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/large-data-sets-algorithm-1216.html
Learn about the work at http://www.exploredata.net/

Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second

Title: Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects.

Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html
Project website: http://www.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/
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Doing double duty: MIT's Collin Stultz

Title: Doing double duty: MIT's Collin Stultz
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A computational biologist and physician, Collin Stultz takes a unique approach to studying diseases that could lead to new treatments.

Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/profile-stultz-1202.html

Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News

MIT's Mentor Advocate Partnership (MAP) Program

Title: MIT's Mentor Advocate Partnership (MAP) Program
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

Caspar Hare - How we (should) decide

Title: Caspar Hare - How we (should) decide
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/profile-hare-philosophy-1122.html

Associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Caspar Hare, aims to develop theories of practical rationality that may just help us make real-world decisions.

MIT-Pfizer Groundbreaking

Title: MIT-Pfizer Groundbreaking
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

MIT Red Balloons social spread

Title: MIT Red Balloons social spread
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Credit: Wei Pan

This video illustrates how referral between participants of the MIT team spread on the continental U.S. before and during the DARPA challenge. Each white line represents a referral from an existing participant's location of the MIT team to the the location of a new team participant. ~36 hours before the competition, under the incentive described in the paper, people actively signed up with the MIT team and referred friends from all different areas, as the white lines expanded rapidly across the U.S. in the animation. The lines highlighted in yellow represents referrals leading to locations where the balloons were actually launched. The social diffusion process started by the MIT team naturally led us to all ten balloon locations in an efficient manner for this time-critical task.

Seeing through walls - MIT's Lincoln Laboratory

Title: Seeing through walls - MIT's Lincoln Laboratory
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory a system has been built by researchers that can see through walls from some distance away, giving an instantaneous picture of the activity on the other side.

Read more about this research: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ll-seeing-through-walls-1018.html

Ramesh Raskar: Super-human vision

Title: Ramesh Raskar: Super-human vision
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Associate professor in the MIT Media Lab Ramesh Raskar. Read more at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/profile-raskar-0929.html

Video: Melanie Gonick

Other links:
http://www.media.mit.edu/~raskar
http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu

The 'Artificial Leaf'

Title: The 'Artificial Leaf'
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: An "artificial leaf" made by Daniel Nocera and his team, using a silicon solar cell with novel catalyst materials bonded to its two sides, is shown in a container of water with light (simulating sunlight) shining on it. The light generates a flow of electricity that causes the water molecules, with the help of the catalysts, to split into oxygen and hydrogen, which bubble up from the two surfaces.

Video and edit provided by: John McCarthy, Track Seventeen Films

Read more about this work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/artificial-leaf-0930.html

Heather Paxson - The anthropologist and the person

Title: Heather Paxson - The anthropologist and the person
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

Associate professor of anthropology Heather Paxson, shares a little bit about herself in this short video.

Cardiac patches of gold

Title: Cardiac patches of gold
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: New cardiac patch uses gold nanowires to enhance electrical signaling between cells, a promising step toward better treatment for heart-attack patients.

Courtesy of the Disease Biophysics Group, Harvard University

MIT Media Lab: 3-D printing with variable densities

Title: MIT Media Lab: 3-D printing with variable densities
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: MIT Media Lab researchers Steven Keating and Neri Oxman demonstrate some of their work into 3-D printing. Read more about MIT's work around 3-D printing: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/3d-printing-0914.html

Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News

The Interphase Program at MIT

Title: The Interphase Program at MIT
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick
Still Images: Quinnton J. Harris '11

Interphase is a rigorous seven-week summer residential, academic and community-building program for admitted MIT freshmen that instills subject mastery of calculus, physics and chemistry, and helps them explore their cultural identities through reading, writing and discussion. In addition, students take physical education classes, participate in laboratory research with faculty mentors, and engage in small-group learning activities and workshops designed to develop their analytical thinking and communication skills.

MIT Edgerton Center - Summer Engineering Design Workshop

Title: MIT Edgerton Center - Summer Engineering Design Workshop
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

Mimicking vocal cord vibrations

Title: Mimicking vocal cord vibrations
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Researchers at MIT and MGH have developed a polymer gel that mimics the vibrations of human vocal cords. This video shows the polymer vocal cord model vibrating when air is blown from below, and a comparison with human vocal cords.

Paper solar cell powers an LED clock

Title: Paper solar cell powers an LED clock
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A paper solar cell circuit is shown powering an LCD clock when illuminated. The entire integrated paper photovoltaic is then fed through a roll-to-roll office laser-jet printer. The resulting ink spells MIT on the device side of the paper array, which then continues to power the LCD clock. The clock circuitry is shown at the end of the video, which is powered by the photovoltaic alone and regulates a constant voltage to the display for variations in light intensity. The paper photovoltaic array is illuminated from below with simulated solar illumination.

Dynamic folding of a paper solar cell circuit

Title: Dynamic folding of a paper solar cell circuit
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A paper solar cell circuit is dynamically folded and unfolded while the voltage is simultaneously measured on the meter. The paper photovoltaic is illuminated from below with simulated solar illumination.

Rubik's Cube(s)

Title: Rubik's Cube(s)
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: MIT student and co-founder of the MIT Rubik's Cube Club Tim Reynolds solves four cubes in 1:10.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Educational Collaboration Space (ECS) at MIT

Title: Educational Collaboration Space (ECS) at MIT
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: MIT math instructors have developed a tool to help educators get to 'best practices' and preserve them for posterity.

Title: Cell density
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Manalis Lab

MIT Commencement 2011

Title: MIT Commencement 2011
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: June 3, 2011 MIT's 145th Commencement.

A look at graduation day from a different perspective.

Video: Melanie Gonick

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