ENGR 1 VIDEO LIST, from
Between Human And Machine: Feedback,
Control, And Computing Before Cybernetics — David A. Mindell, Frances and
David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and
Manufacturing, MIT
Biomaterials and How They Will Change
our Lives — Robert S. Langer, Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical
and Biomedical Engineering, MIT
Fractals in Science, Engineering and
Finance (Roughness and Beauty) Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of
Mathematical Sciences, Yale University, IBM Fellow (Emeritus)
Building a Community on Trust —
David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate; President, California Institute of Technology
The Innovation Economy: How
Technology Is Transforming Existing Industries and Creating New Ones — Technology
Review's 2002 TR100 Symposium
The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies: Taking Nanotechnology from
the Laboratory to the Soldier — Edwin L. Thomas, Director, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and
Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Living with Catastrophic Terrorism:
Can Science and Technology Make the U.S. Safer? — Lewis M. Branscomb,
Co-chair, Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism,
National Research Council; Professor Emeritus,
National Missile Defense Or Offense?
The True Role of the US Missile Defense System — Panelists: Randall
Forsberg, Dingli Shen, and Lisbeth Gronlund; Moderator: Kosta Tsipis, Research
Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
The Politically Correct Atomic Reactor
— Andrew C. Kadak, Professor of the Practice of Nuclear Engineering, MIT
Technology and Humanity in the 21st
Century — Michael Dertouzos, Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer
Science, 1974-2001
Thoughts on the Evolution of Chemical
Engineering: One MIT Perspective — Robert A. Brown, Provost, MIT; Warren K.
Lewis Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
The Wallenberg Lecture on
Sustainability and the Environment at MIT — Leif Johansson, President of AB
Volvo and CEO of the Volvo Group
Why Robbie Can't Learn: The Difficulty
of Learning in Autonomous Agents — Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Professor of
Electrical Engineering; Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women
— Virginia Valian, Professor of Psychology and Linguistics,
Engineering 1 Speakers/Shadow
List Fall
2004
David Korpi MPC, UC Berkeley, EE/ME. Consulting.
Formerly Sierra Instruments in
Kevin Gilman MPC ’75, Cal Poly SLO, Mechanical
Engineering; Chief Engineer Lansmont
Corporation -- container
vibration/load testing equipment. field trip possible
http://www.lansmont.com/default.htm
Mark Chaffe MPC grad, EE/oceanographic, Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Chief Engineer -- ROV, undersea data
acquisition systems. field trip possible
Terry Kunysz Software Publisher. Ins and outs of
commercial software development.
L. J. Nickisch EE/Signal Processing, Mission Research
Corporation. Radar detection of distant
planes and ships, ballistic missile identification, subatomic physics
(zero-point-field)
Linda Tripp Civil Engineer, Environmental Consultant
with
Michael Goodhue Civil Engineer, Monterey City Hall
Public Works Department
Robert Jenson Industrial engineer, works at company that
makes mufflers for Harley Davidson
motorcycles. Field trip
possible.