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Computing for Everyone Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: July 07, 2011 In three presentations that look back to digital-age milestones, and glimpse ahead to what may come next, speakers share some previously undisclos...

Turing Award Winners Panel Discussion Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 29, 2011 Winners of the A.M.Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computing, describe their singular contributions to the field, and their works’ impact. They a...

Design for Fun: What Makes a Game Good, and a Good Game? Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 13, 2011 Drew Davidson likes to play with blocks in his sandbox, as he demonstrates in a show-and-tell to interactive media colleagues. In this case, the p...

Plays Well With Others: Leadership in Online Collaboration Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 06, 2011 Amy Bruckman finds the accomplishments of such online collaborations as Wikipedia, Apache and Firefox “nothing less than astounding,” and is both ...

Technology: Do Kids Need More or Less? Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 06, 2011 The ultimate questions for this Sandbox 2011 panel, posed by moderator Alan Gershenfeld, are “Where is technology not working? When is technology ...

Energy Education Showcase: How MIT is Preparing Students for New Challenges Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 30, 2011 In 2009, MIT launched an unusual academic venture, an interdisciplinary minor devoted to energy studies. A panel of MIT professors discuss their a...

Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 30, 2011 In spite of the “sickening human and social devastation on full display” in northern Japan, moderator Richard Samuels wonders, “Is it possible to ...

Education in the United States Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 30, 2011 The drive to make American universities more diverse shows some success, but consistent and meaningful inclusion of under-represented minorities s...

Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs II Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 30, 2011 Four women who have made ground-breaking contributions in different disciplines describe their research, which has not only involved ‘thinking out...

The Future Automotive System: The World That Changed The Machine Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 30, 2011 The world economic order has shifted considerably since 1990, when Daniel Roos and his coauthors wrote The Machine that Changed the World, the sto...

Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Physical Systems: Application to Energy Conversion and Environmental Modeling Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 30, 2011 In search of better-burning fuels, or more accurate projections of climate change, researchers inevitably work through multiple models, sometimes ...

The Role of International Negotiations in Addressing the Climate Challenge Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 30, 2011 With frightening evidence for climate change mounting around the globe, from droughts and massive forest fires to melting glaciers and rising sea ...

Learning 3.0: Why Technology Belongs in Every Classroom Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 30, 2011 The Obama Administration’s recently unveiled plan for transforming American education through technology does not envision “plugging kids in and ma...

Investments in our Future: Exploring Space through Innovation and Technology Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 24, 2011 “I don’t remember Apollo at all,” confesses Robert Braun, NASA’s chief technologist. “I feel really bad about it.” Nevertheless, he has spent a lo...

Welcome and Opening Remarks, History Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 24, 2011 It’s Day 95 in MIT’s 150 days of sesquicentennial celebration, and all thoughts turn to the evolution of computer science and MIT’s pivotal role i...

Welcome and Opening Remarks, History Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2011 It’s Day 95 in MIT’s 150 days of sesquicentennial celebration, and all thoughts turn to the evolution of computer science and MIT’s pivotal role i...

Investments in our Future: Exploring Space through Innovation and Technology Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 20, 2011 “I don’t remember Apollo at all,” confesses Robert Braun, NASA’s chief technologist. “I feel really bad about it.” Nevertheless, he has spent a lo...

The Future Automotive System: The World That Changed The Machine Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: April 27, 2011 The world economic order has shifted considerably since 1990, when Daniel Roos and his coauthors wrote The Machine that Changed the World, the sto...

Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation in Context of Global Change Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: April 20, 2011 It is a complicated matter mapping the movement of pollution in the atmosphere, but Noelle Eckley Selin models not just the chemistry of the atmos...

Energy Education Showcase: How MIT is Preparing Students for New Challenges Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: April 07, 2011 In 2009, MIT launched an unusual academic venture, an interdisciplinary minor devoted to energy studies. A panel of MIT professors discuss their a...

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