tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185166080 2008-09-08 14:27:37 -0400 AeroAstro Robert Seamans Jr. was associate and deputy NASA administrator from 1960-68 where he was instrumental in development of manned spaceflight. He would later serve as MIT Dean of Engineering, Director of the Draper Lab, and a senior lecturer in MIT Aero-Astro, which named its Learning Laboratory in his honor. He passed away in 2008. In this video, Dr. Seamans and astronaut Neil Armstrong (with a guest appearance by Buzz Aldrin) deliver the 1994 Aero-Astro Gardener Lecture and speak about their experiences in the race to the moon. 4720 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185144140 2008-06-27 19:03:59 -0400 hibur lectures Video conference with Technion, May 2, 2005, featuring Professor Robert Langer. 4146 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185102520 2007-10-05 16:44:50 -0400 MIT Video Productions Installation ceremony of Dr. Robert M. Randolph, Chaplain to the Institute, Sunday, September 30, 2007, Kresge Auditorium. 5827 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185080360 2008-06-19 13:47:13 -0400 School of Engineering <p>MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer has won the Millennium Technology Prize, the world's largest award for technology innovation.</p><p>Langer was chosen "for his inventions and development of innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release and tissue regeneration that have saved and improved the lives of millions of people," according to Technology Academy Finland, which gives the award every other year.</p><p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/langer-millennium-0611.html" target="_blank">More info</a></p> 523 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185059420 2009-01-15 10:06:20 -0500 Convergence Culture Consortium The Internet has altered transnational media flows, making it easier to move content across national and geographic boundaries, but complicating the economic structures that support these flows. How do we manage global distribution in the current context? What is the impact of the Internet on the interaction between local audiences and globalised content? What is the role of international audiences as taste-makers, and what can that tell us about making content relevant to multiple local audiences? How do we balance international distribution windows with audiences who move content themselves? 6343 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185035080 2009-05-28 10:44:31 -0400 MIT News Office Neurons in the visual cortex (area V4) encode the visual scene, and neurons in the FEF portion of prefrontal cortex control the focus of attention. When attention (cone and circle) is directed to the red book, neurons in FEF and V4 (represented by red triangles) start firing rhythmically, and the neural activity becomes synchronized across the two areas. 3 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185013780 2009-06-10 11:31:01 -0400 AeroAstro A tribute to the life and work of Bob Seamans, Associate Administrator of NASA during the Apollo Program, and former Dean of Engineering at MIT. 619 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184991480 2009-06-10 13:06:49 -0400 Subject Spotlights 79 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184944540 2009-06-23 17:43:08 -0400 The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research @MIT <b>2009 Koch Institute Symposium</b> <br><br> Robert Weinberg: introduction to afternoon session and speakers 436 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184919280 2009-08-03 23:36:47 -0400 Center for Advanced Visual Studies A dialog (in speech and sign) between artists, designers, scientists, students, speakers, and signers. Participants touch on the range of human experience including deafness, and on acoustical engineering, especially resonance and sonic vibrations. All presentations are interpreted in American Sign Language. At the center of the conference is a specially-built raised floor, designed to be activated with low-frequency vibration. By sitting, standing, lying on the floor, hearing and deaf participants are able to experience sound through their bodies. During the conference, presenters use the floor as a vehicle for tactile communication. 890