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How the Brain Encodes Reward Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 11, 2009 As Ann Graybiel puts it, “basal ganglia were dark basement structures” until Okihide Hikosaka began his classic 1980s research demonstrating how t...

How the Brain Encodes Reward Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 08, 2009 As Ann Graybiel puts it, “basal ganglia were dark basement structures” until Okihide Hikosaka began his classic 1980s research demonstrating how t...

The Future of Science Journalism Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 Susan Hockfield states that science journalism “is now, and in the decades ahead, absolutely indispensable.” As we confront global warming and hea...

Engineering for the Ecological Age: Lessons from History Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 John Ochsendorf, a structural engineer, “fell in love with archaeology” during college. His senior thesis at Cornell involved a 600-year-old Incan...

Next Generation Solar Cells: Lowering Costs, Improving Performance and Scale Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 According to Tonio Buonassisi, we’re “on the cusp” of achieving a competitive technology for capturing the limitless energy of the sun. Buonassisi...

Introduction/Overview of Brain Disorders Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 In their symposium introduction, Susan Hockfield and Mriganka Sur place MIT at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. Hockfield, a neurosc...

Composing a Career and Life Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 Linda Mason was originally going to make a case study of Bright Horizons, her $1.3 billion, early childhood care business, but reconsidered in lig...

Media in Transition 6: Summary Perspectives Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 At the end of the three-day Media in Transition conference, panelists swap impressions and reactions, offering some notional themes for future sym...

Luminescent Solar Concentrators Explained Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 Researchers are well along in designing a highly efficient, inexpensive solar cell, but the big barrier to the dissemination of solar power in soc...

The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World’s Brains on your Innovation Challenges Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 Cooperation may be making us “a little bit too nice” when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there’s nothing like competi...

Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 Contrary to popular thinking, China owes its astonishing economic expansion not to far-sighted government policy but to hundreds of millions of en...

Grand Challenges and Engineering Systems: Inspiring and Educating the Next Generation Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 It’s a good thing for a world increasingly beset by mammoth challenges that universities are responding with new engineering systems programs. Thes...

Critical Issues and Grand Challenges Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 These panelists use the lens of systems engineering to focus sharply on some signature global challenges in finance, healthcare, energy and IT.&am...

MIT Perspective on Engineering Systems Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 29, 2009 The field of systems engineering has only recently emerged, and as this symposium demonstrates, defies precise definition. But MIT has taken this ...

MIT Perspective on Engineering Systems Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 17, 2009 The field of systems engineering has only recently emerged, and as this symposium demonstrates, defies precise definition. But MIT has taken this ...

Critical Issues and Grand Challenges Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 11, 2009 These panelists use the lens of systems engineering to focus sharply on some signature global challenges in finance, healthcare, energy and IT.&am...

Grand Challenges and Engineering Systems: Inspiring and Educating the Next Generation Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 06, 2009 It’s a good thing for a world increasingly beset by mammoth challenges that universities are responding with new engineering systems programs. Thes...

The Evolution of Trichromatic Color Vision Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 Sometime around 100 million years ago, when the continents of Africa and South America were still in touch, a female primate — one of ou...

Global Media Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 Just as digital technology has expanded the means of producing media, so has it increased the geographic range new media may travel. Locally gener...

The Future of Computing Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: August 01, 2009 Wielding numerous analogies for his audience of MIT students, Anant Agarwal makes the case that the next generation of computers, not to mention m...

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