tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185130060 2007-12-11 14:36:05 -0500 MIT Alumni Association A panel from the <a href="http://alum.mit.edu/ne/alc/index.html">2007 Alumni Leadership Conference</a> featuring department Head <a href="http://web.mit.edu/jaillet/www/">Patrick Jaillet</a> SM '82, PhD '85 discussing the department's influence and students presenting their research. 2939 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185080520 2008-02-11 15:58:38 -0500 Doc Edgerton Films Institute Professor, Harold "Doc" Edgerton revolutionized photography with his high speed strobe lighting techniques. He came to MIT as a student in 1926. By the time of his passing in 1990 he had profoundly affected MIT and the world with his contributions to photography and underwater exploration. This talk, given by Prof. J.Kim Vandiver will show many of his photographs and tell stories of his contributions to high speed photography, night reconnaisance photography in WWII, and marine archeology. His legacy and contributions to MIT are celebrated in the Edgerton Center of today. Come enjoy the photography and learn about the new Edgerton Archive project. 2638 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185039920 2008-03-21 17:40:06 -0400 H2O-1B <p>Tens of millions of people in Asia are affected by arsenic contaminated groundwater. A partnership between MIT and ENPHO, a Nepali environmental NGO, have invented and widely disseminated the Kanchan Arsenic Filter in Nepal. New work is taking this filter to Bangladesh and Cambodia. This video shows the successful implementation of the Kanchan with financial support from <a href="http://www.globalwatertrust.org/" target="_blank">Global Water Trust</a>.</p> <p>To find out more information on this, click <a href="http://web.mit.edu/watsan/" target="_blank">here</a>. </p> <p>This video is an excerpt from ARSENIC: The Largest Mass Poisoning in History. Produced by <a href="http://www.globalwatertrust.org/" target="_blank">Global Water Trust</a> all rights reserved 2008.</p> 901 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185001120 2007-04-27 17:17:16 -0400 MIT ZigZag Tech Week with Tech Reunions are explained and how they bring alumni together in the time leading up to Commencement 2006. Class of 1956 members are donned with their 50-year Red Jackets. Then 50 K - 12 educators come to campus for the Science and Engineer Program for Teachers, as well as a check in on red tail hawks on campus. 469 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184967460 2008-04-17 12:46:54 -0400 TDP MIT's Technology and Development Program (TDP) is participating in a new program to assist the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) to establish a graduate science and engineering program in Abu Dhabi, UAE, focused on renewable energy and sustainable technology. This video shows the plans for the green city which would house the MIST campus. 478 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184945920 2008-06-11 14:12:23 -0400 AeroAstro Project to develop a framework of interplanetary logistics. 435 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184921100 2007-06-19 15:02:35 -0400 Commencement 2007 Susan J. Shin, President of the Class of 2007 345 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184895500 2008-08-04 15:44:45 -0400 New Media Literacies DJs define "sampling", and then share their thoughts about the effects of copyright law in the world of electronic music. Featuring DJ C, DJ Flack, DJ M. Singe, and DJ Spooky. 296 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184872380 2008-01-16 18:51:34 -0500 professorblue <span>In this podcast we consider the stuff that comes out of your kitchen and bathroom faucets. Professor Blue does a little dance in a huge pipe, too!<br /></span> 212 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/184844880 2008-01-22 17:00:24 -0500 professorblue In this pod, Professor Blue swims in her laboratory to talk about water. We do not know how she managed to get the submarine in that lake, though! 230