MIT World » Recent UpdatesMIT World is a free, open, video streaming web site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT. These are the 10 most recent video-taped presentationsThe Internationalization of Spanish Companies: Ferrovial, The Rise of a Multinational- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Rafael del Pino GM&39;86 Move over, Italy. Rafael del Pino is here to claim Spains rightful spot as a major European player in the global infrastructure market. Founded by del Pinos father in 1952 as a builder of sleeper cars for trains, Ferrovial has diversified into a conglomerate with a hand in construction, real estate, road building design and operation, water treatment and desalination, airport ownership and operation, among other activities, and with 104 thousand employees in 43...http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/569/ Nanophotonics: Discovering the Magic of Light in Nanostructures- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Evelyn Hu Evelyn Hu meticulously describes designing and building a new generation of optical materials from nano-sized elements. She hopes to harness the magic of light in nanostructures. Hu walks through her research of exploring and exploiting the properties of different optical materials. She first cites the most important aspects of an optical material, such as its color (emission and absorption wavelength); its ability to convert energy efficiently; how long it remains excited...http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/561/ Prime Time in Transition- (Found June 24, 2008 ) John Romano Fear not, fans of character-based TV fiction: reality shows will not obliterate tales featuring transactions between human beings the Jane Austen end of things, as John Romano puts it. This veteran of some of TVs finest cop dramas (including Hill Street Blues and Monk) sees wrenching changes in his business, but reassures his audience that TV will always be a place for storytelling. It comes as no surprise that this Yale English major prefers writing for and watching programs.http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/562/ Global Television- (Found June 24, 2008 ) William C. Uricchio, Roberta Pearson , Eggo Mller Theres a lot that seems familiar on TV in other countries, and indeed, as these panelists recount, theres been a flow across borders of TV content and style nearly as long as the mediums been around. William Uricchio tells us that although TV technology developed as a genuinely global phenomenon, in Stalins Russia, Nazi Germany and in the USA, after World War II, TV became synonymous with American culture. This was no accident, says...http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/563/ The City Car- (Found June 24, 2008 ) William J. Mitchell, Ryan Chin MA &39;00, SM &39;04 William Mitchell and Ryan Chin propose an attractive alternative to the carbon-belching, gas-guzzling autos clogging our thoroughfares, a vision that is as much about transforming cities as about remaking cars. The City Car, a tiny, electric-powered, foldable, stackable vehicle, is their solution to freeing urban centers of paralyzing, polluting traffic, and the nightmare of parking. Along with a tiny footprint and lack of tailpipe...http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/564/ Ensuring Educational Access: Our Challenge, Our Opportunity- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Jamira Cotton, Kenneth Kweku Bota Two MIT students honor their experience at MIT, but ask that the Institute acknowledge an unequal world and embrace a larger mission. Jamira Cotton has long understood the privilege, and burden, of representing an entire community. She attended a middle school for gifted and talented children as only one of five black female students. Her parents early on instilled in her the charge to be a leader. In public high school she realized not only did I need...http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/565/ Diversity and Inclusion: Building a Solution Worthy of MIT- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Susan Hockfield, Ray Hammond While Martin Luther King might be amazed to see what blacks, Hispanics and women have accomplished since his time, says Ray Hammond, we must take an honest look at the state of his dreams today, and ask, Where do we go from here This is a question that MIT President Susan Hockfield has also taken to heart. Hockfield admits that despite the intense, unrelenting and committed work of many people, MIT has failed to create the serious, meaningful diversity and...http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/566/ The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books and Visualizing Our World- (Found June 24, 2008 ) David Macaulay This presentation feels akin to a new Disney ride: During your tour inside David Macaulays imagination, prepare to soar over Romes great monuments, raft within the human bodys circulatory system, and dismantle and rebuild the Empire State Building. Dont expect much in the way of explanation or background, but simply sit back and enjoy as this master illustrator rolls out sketches and storylines from some of his greatest published and unpublished hits. Macaulay delves into.http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/568/ Recent History of Boston Transportation- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Frederick P. Salvucci &39;61, SM &39;62 Frederick Salvuccis perspective on transportation development is an amalgam of civil engineering, history, economics, policy, and not least, the direct impact on peoples lives. Here he surveys the evolution of transportation in Boston and beyond from the 1830s to the present. Salvucci covers significant junctures in transportation history, beginning in the 1830s with horses pulling streetcars on wagon wheels, then steel wheels. In the 1870s,...http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/567/ Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Carl Wieman &39;73 Spurred by such real-world challenges as global warming, Carl Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, has transformed his curiosity about improving science education into a vocation. Wieman is convinced that science education must be improved, not simply to inspire and train the next generation of scientists, but to educate a citizenry to make wise decisions on tough questions. Unhappy with the apparent lack of impact his undergraduate physics courses had on students,...http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/560/ |