Innovation to Commercialization: Using Government Funding to Kick Start Your Start-Up Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 This informative roundtable provides useful tips to wanna-be small biz entrepreneurs on snagging government dollars. Through conversation and Q&...

Precision Cosmology Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 Buzz Lightyear has nothing on Max Tegmark, who takes his alumni audience on a dizzying tour of the universe and beyond. Before Tegmark begins, MI...

Personal Robots Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 Cynthia Breazeal’s eminently charming and huggable creatures appear to have stepped out of Santa’s North Pole workshop. But Breazeal wants you to k...

Imperative of Science and Technology in Accelerating African and Rwandan Development Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 The news these days from Africa isn’t all bad. In fact, in some places, it’s downright hopeful, as Rwandan President Paul Kagame attests. “Our con...

A View From Industry Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 GM knows you’ll be skeptical, says Gary Cowger, but this icon of American business has committed to transforming itself via a comprehensive regime ...

Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business and Society Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 If “organizations are the way that ideas change the world,” as MIT Sloan Dean Dave Schmittlein puts it, then look to institutions like MIT, which h...

Opportunities in Infrastructure and Built Environment Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 Half the world’s population currently lives in cities, and that number is spiraling upward, as urban settlements gobble up most of the world’s nat...

The International Development Fair: The Human Factor at Work in the World Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 Imagine if thousands of Amy Smiths were unleashed on the world, providing simple, ingenious inventions to make life easier for those subsisting on...

Leading Change: A Conversation with Ron Williams Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: November 20, 2008 In what Dean Dave Schmittlein bills as a master class, Ronald A. Williams discusses how an emphasis on new technology and application of basic val...