Lectures tagged "Engineering"

Space and Beyond: US Policy, Space Security, and Arms Control
Space and Beyond: US Policy, Space Security, and Arms Control
Joan Johnson-Freese
December 9, 2009
01:22:33
Joan Johnson-Freese, chair of the Department of National Security Strategy at the Naval War College, and Laura Grego, scientist for the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, discuss space security and the future of space relations in a panel moderated by leading political ana
Cory Doctorow: Makers
Cory Doctorow
November 16, 2009
00:46:03
Sci-fi novelist and technology activist Cory Doctorow reads from Makers, his new novel about the near future of technological innovation.
Digital Inclusion
Iqbal Quadir
October 24, 2009
00:32:34
Calestous Juma hosts a talk with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Iqbar Quadir, who connected millions of the rural poor in Bangladesh through Grameenphone cellphones and now supports MIT students whose start-ups will have a positive impact on developing count
The Future of Reading: Books Without Pages?
David Pogue
October 24, 2009
01:36:23
New York Times personal technology columnist David Pogue takes a look at how reading and books will be experienced in the future. Steve Haber of Sony, Neil Jones of Interead, and Mary Lou Jepsen, founder of Pixel Qi, showcase new technology.
One Giant Leap: Space Exploration and the New Pioneers
Ken Davidian
May 13, 2009
01:31:08
Spencer Reiss, contributing editor of Wired Magazine, leads a panel discussion on the present and future of space exploration. Could the key to future space exploration lie in revisiting where we have already been?
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Postcards from China
James Fallows
January 25, 2009
01:27:47
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, who has been living in China for the last two years, discusses his book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, with the founder of Harvard University's Global Equity Initiative, Dr. Lincoln Chen.
Space Suit: The World's Smallest Spacecraft
Dava J. Newman
October 30, 2008
00:23:36
Dava Newman describes and demonstrates her innovative custom-fitted space suit, which combines science, engineering, and art, and gives astronauts greater mobility while conserving energy as they explore the surface of the moon or Mars.
Vikram Kumar: Software Solutions to Societal Problems
Vikram Sheel Kumar
October 30, 2008
00:21:05
Vikram Kumar explains in detail his current projects and why he believes that “behind every societal ill is a solvable software problem.” He has developed, among other things, an electronic medical records system used by tens of thousands of people in Zambia; software that can detect clinical depres