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The Future of Science Journalism Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: June 07, 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: June 07, 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: June 02, 2009 According to Tonio Buonassisi, we’re “on the cusp” of achieving a competitive technology for capturing the limitless energy of the sun. Buonassisi...

Planet Water: Complexity and Organization in Earth Systems Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 Rafael Bras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who pioneered the field of hydrologic science, is MIT's James R. Killi...

Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 There will be a time “beyond crisis,” asserts Robert C. Merton, who delves into the dense science of derivatives — a field he has fundam...

An Evening with Video Artist Bill Viola Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 Bill Viola dims the lights in MIT’s Room 10-250, and begins to talk of life, death and all that lies between, leaving the realm of classroom and e...

Distributed Leadership in the Obama Campaign Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 The Obama campaign owes its victory not to a single charismatic candidate, but to the efforts of a disciplined and motivated organization whose ro...

Values-Based Leadership Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 A West Point start, army career, and a disciplined approach to distilling key life experiences has guided Robert McDonald through his 20 years at ...

Great Leaps, Persistence, and Innovation: The Evolving Story of Hyundai Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 In 1986, Hyundai’s first export to the U.S, the $4995 Excel, developed embarrassing quality problems, and the company found itself grist for late ...

Film Music and Digital Media Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 In a panel that at times resembles a late-night ramble and conversation, three film music professionals discuss changes in their industry, with so...

The Most Important Number in the World Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 “Just a sleep-deprived activist and organizer.” That’s how environmentalist Bill McKibben describes his current incarnation, with writing career i...

Leading an Environmentally Sustainable Enterprise Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 Climate change poses perhaps the premiere threat to coming generations, says Martin Madaus, but to avoid its worst impacts, we must confront the i...

Transitioning from the Space Shuttle to the Constellation System Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 2009 William Gerstenmaier knows the U.S. space program inside out — both literally and figuratively. As a 30-plus year veteran of NASA, Gers...

The Evolution of Trichromatic Color Vision Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 23, 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: May 23, 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: May 23, 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...

The Future of Science Journalism Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 21, 2009 Susan Hockfield states that science journalism “is now, and in the decades ahead, absolutely indispensable.” As we confront global warming and hea...

The Future of Computing Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 20, 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...

The Evolution of Trichromatic Color Vision Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 17, 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...

The Medium Religion Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: May 17, 2009 Noted philosopher, critic and essayist Boris Groys, who has previously delved into the Soviet post-modernist and Russian avant-garde art scene, tu...

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