Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Videos & Latest Coverage

Title: Unique languages, universal patterns
Runtime: 2:41
Date posted: 15 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...

Title: Making Nanodroplets Drop Faster
Runtime: 1:36
Date posted: 15 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
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 15 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
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 15 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

Title: Harnessing nature's solar cells
Runtime: 2:50
Date posted: 15 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

Title: Michael Demkowicz - Extreme materials
Runtime: 1:19
Date posted: 15 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

Title: Bob Weinberg and cancer
Runtime: 1:29
Date posted: 15 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
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 15 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.

Title: President Obama at MIT
Runtime: 3:52
Date posted: 15 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

Title: Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC)
Runtime: 2:15
Date posted: 15 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
Runtime: 2:45
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Jeffrey Grossman is profiled.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Title: MIT's Polina Golland - The quantifier
Runtime: 1:20
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

Title: MIC visualization of datasets
Runtime: 4:46
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
Runtime: 2:47
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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Title: Doing double duty: MIT's Collin Stultz
Runtime: 2:38
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
Runtime: 3:46
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

Title: Caspar Hare - How we (should) decide
Runtime: 2:07
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.

Title: MIT-Pfizer Groundbreaking
Runtime: 2:54
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

Title: MIT Red Balloons social spread
Runtime: 1:02
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
Runtime: 3:46
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

Title: Ramesh Raskar: Super-human vision
Runtime: 2:27
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

Title: The 'Artificial Leaf'
Runtime: 0:33
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
Runtime: 2:42
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.

Title: Cardiac patches of gold
Runtime: 0:17
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
Runtime: 2:01
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

Title: The Interphase Program at MIT
Runtime: 3:02
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
Runtime: 7:49
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Video: Melanie Gonick

Title: Mimicking vocal cord vibrations
Runtime: 0:14
Date posted: 16 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.

Title: Paper solar cell powers an LED clock
Runtime: 1:10
Date posted: 16 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
Runtime: 0:40
Date posted: 16 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.

Title: Rubik's Cube(s)
Runtime: 1:40
Date posted: 16 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
Runtime: 2:26
Date posted: 16 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
Runtime: 0:52
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Video: Manalis Lab

Title: MIT Commencement 2011
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: June 3, 2011 MIT's 145th Commencement.

A look at graduation day from a different perspective.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Robot demonstrates task planning and execution skills

Title: Robot demonstrates task planning and execution skills
Runtime: 0:45
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: MIT computer scientists Leslie Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez use a Willow Garage PR2 robot to demonstrate their new approach for integrating task and motion planning in robots. The researchers say their algorithm is very much still a work in progress, as can be seen in this video (sped up four times), which shows a robot picking up a can and a box and moving them to opposite ends of a tabletop. Sometimes, the robot does not reach perfectly for the target object and ends up knocking it slightly one way or the other. However, according to the researchers, it is the robot's ability to adapt to the new situation and make another attempt that is a crucial feature of their program. The robot sometimes performs extraneous movements — for example, when it waves an object back and forth a few times before setting it down in its target location. And yet, using the hierarchical "in the now" approach, the bot is still able to get the job done.

Video: Leslie Kaelbling/Tomás Loz...

Title: MIT DNA Robot
Runtime: 0:08
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: MIT biological engineers design software that predicts the 3D solution shape and flexibility of a DNA-based robot.

Title: Self-oscillating gels at MIT
Runtime: 1:21
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Self-oscillating gels are materials that continuously change back and forth between different states — such as color or size — without provocation from external stimuli. These changes are caused by the Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction, which was discovered during the 1950s. Without stirring or other outside influence, wave patterns from this chemical reaction can develop within the material or cause the entire gel itself to pulsate.

Irene Chou Chen, a doctoral candidate in the lab of Krystyn J. Van Vliet, the Paul M. Cook Career Development Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has been studying exactly how adjusting the size and shape of these gels can affect their behavior.

Video: Melanie Gonick
Additional footage: Irene Chen

Title: The Green Grease Project at MIT
Runtime: 1:22
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Students from MIT's Biodiesel team organizes the project, called Green Grease, and they traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil last summer to begin the implementation. Led by Libby McDonald, a fellow at the Community Innovators Lab in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, the team converted two large trucks to run directly on filtered vegetable oil, rather than converting the oil itself into biodiesel fuel.

Video: Melanie Gonick
Additional footage/stills: The Green Grease Team

Remembering Ron McNair - 25th Anniversary of Challenger disaster

Title: Remembering Ron McNair - 25th Anniversary of Challenger disaster
Runtime: 3:47
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Friend and fellow astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman remembers Ron McNair and his crew members who died in the Challenger explosion 25 years ago.

Video: Melanie Gonick
Still images: NASA

Title: Holographic TV
Runtime: 0:56
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Using a single Kinect camera and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.

Learn more about this work at: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/video-holography-0124.html

Video: Melanie Gonick
Additional stills: James D. Barabas

Title: Water droplet impact
Runtime: 0:19
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: This video from a high-speed camera shows a droplet being deposited on a superhydrophobic surface, just before it separates from the dropper. At the moment of separation, ripples move down through the droplet, showing the deceleration caused by impact with the surface, which causes a brief burst of high pressure.
Video courtesy of Kripa Varanasi

Read more about the research at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/droplets-0120.html

Title: Experiment (100x slower)
Runtime: 0:18
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The researchers needed to be able to change a cat's lapping speed
in order to test their theory. So they developed a robotic version of a
cat's tongue — a mechanical column with a 1-inch glass disk at the tip.
This device allowed the researchers to study the liquid column for different
lapping speeds using a high-speed digital camera. The initial image was
taken at 1000 frames per second. The video above is slowed to 15 frames per
second.

Video: Pedro M. Reis, Sunghwan Jung, Jeffrey M. Aristoff and Roman Stocker

Title: Cutta Cutta (67x slower)
Runtime: 0:34
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Cutta Cutta drinking

Video: Pedro M. Reis, Sunghwan Jung, Jeffrey M. Aristoff and Roman Stocker

Title: Cutta Cutta (12x slower)
Runtime: 0:10
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Cutta Cutta drinking

Video: Pedro M. Reis, Sunghwan Jung, Jeffrey M. Aristoff and Roman Stocker

Title: Autonomous Parking - MIT AgeLab
Runtime: 2:15
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Research Scientist at MIT's AgeLab and Associate Director of New England University Transportation Center Bryan Reimer discusses and demos a car that can park itself.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Greenhouse Gases - MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi

Title: Greenhouse Gases - MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi
Runtime: 1:58
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: David Simchi-Levi, a professor in MIT's Engineering Systems Division and Department of Civil Engineering, discusses lowering greenhouse emissions generated by humans.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Title: Forming habits
Runtime: 0:16
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: This video demonstrates the sequential pathways that monkeys used to look at a grid of dots. They received a reward when their gaze landed on one of the dots.

Video: Theresa Desrochers/Daniel Gibson

Solar fuel - MIT Professor Jeffrey Grossman

Title: Solar fuel - MIT Professor Jeffrey Grossman
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Video: Jeffrey Grossman
Additional editing/audio capture: Melanie Gonick

Title: Birdsong
Runtime: 0:01
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The song of the zebra finch lasts about 1 second, and consists of multiple syllables whose timing is almost precisely the same from one performance to the next.
Video: Dan Rubin/MIT

Title: Folding a solar cell into an airplane
Runtime: 0:54
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: MIT professor Karen K. Gleason explains how graduate student Miles Barr folds a solar cell into a paper airplane.

Video: Miles Barr/Jill Rowehl/Christopher Boyce/Dr. Sung Gap Im/ Vladimir Bulovic/Karen Gleason

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