From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:39 PM

Are the current efforts by some governors to eliminate or curtail collective bargaining an attack on workers' rights or fiscal necessity? One of the Institute’s key thinkers and a national expert in this area, Professor Thomas A. Kochan of the MIT Sloan School (bio below), offered his thoug...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:39 PM

The eminent MIT professor, author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world, her sense of the culture of MIT and its students, and her own career with Communications Forum Director David Thorburn, a longtime colleague. Sherry Turkle is Abby ...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:39 PM

This 1965 “Science Reporter” television program features the Apollo guidance computer and navigation equipment, which involve less than 60 lbs of microcircuits and memory cores. Scientists and engineers Eldon Hall, Ramon Alonzo and Albert Hopkins (of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory) and Jack ...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:39 PM

This 1966 “Science Reporter” television program details the development and construction of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), the only vehicle of the three Apollo spacecraft modules that actually lands on the moon. Project engineer Thomas Kelly gives a tour of the LEM at Grumman Aircraft in Long...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:39 PM

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:39 PM

This 1966 “Science Reporter” television program tackles the challenges of getting the Apollo Command Module safely back from space through the atmosphere to Earth – one of the most forbidding hurdles of the Apollo program. William Brooks (Langley Research Center, Hampton VA) demonstrates techniq...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:39 PM

For his first of three Karl Taylor Compton Lectures Dr. John H. Gibbons delivers a talk on “21st Century: “Will Science and Technology Contribute to Society or Scuttle It?” T2252, T2253

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:38 PM

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:38 PM

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:38 PM

MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2011

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:38 PM

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:38 PM

Recent events in Japan have shaken public confidence in the safety of nuclear power plants. Although the health consequences have so far been small, the Fukushima accident has rekindled fears of radiation around the globe and has renewed the discussion on the risks and costs of nuclear power. Th...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:38 PM

Vignettes of early radiation workers with John G. Trump, DSc Professor of electrical engineering MIT. Moderated by Lauriston S. Taylor. In his video series “Vignettes of Early Radiation Workers” Taylor interviews pioneers on topics in “fields that have impinged on the applications of i...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:38 PM

A Civic Media Session about models and techniques for public interventions and soft subversions aimed at undermining authoritarian tendencies in a time of neo-liberal domination. Known for his work in Electronic Civil Disobedience and BioArt, Steve Kurtz is a founding member of the Crit...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 29 2011 2:38 PM

This video lesson presents a real world problem that can be solved by using the Pythagorean theorem. The problem faces a juice seller daily. He has equilateral barrels with equal heights and he always tries to empty the juice of two barrels into a third barrel that has a volume equal to the sum o...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 22 2011 8:07 PM

Finance Panel at MIT Sloan Africa 2.0 Conference, April 1, 2011

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 22 2011 8:07 PM

Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. Her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, follows the intimate and moving stories of three African-...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 22 2011 8:07 PM

Gonzalo Carrasco is a postdoc. working in Ed Boyle’s Lab. His main interests are the study of trace metals of biogeochemical importance, focusing on their concentration, chemical speciation and isotopic fractionation in water, sediments and biological records, aiming at understanding their bioge...

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 22 2011 8:06 PM

From: MIT TechTV on Fri, Apr 22 2011 8:06 PM

Movie ideas from the lab to the market place at the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation