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MIT World

MIT World

MIT World offers free streaming video lectures of speakers at events that occur at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lectures cover a wide range of topics, but most are in the area of technology, science, politics, business, and where these areas intersect. Frequent speakers include Noam Chomsky, Lester Thurow, Walter Lewin, along with single lectures from Thomas L. Friedman, Jack Welch, Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and many other leading thinkers and leaders in a variety of fields. All streaming video is of exceptional quality.


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by Ray Kurzweil
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In the Fall of 1997 the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory hosted a ground-breaking and controversial lecture series titled "God and Computers: Minds, Machines, and Metaphysics."

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by Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs, one of the computer industry's foremost entrepreneurs, gives a wide-ranging talk to a group of MIT Sloan School of Management students in the spring of 1992.

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by Bill Gates
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Bill Gates’ talk at MIT provided an optimistic view of the next generation of computer science, now that the “rough draft” is done.

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by Muhammad Yunus
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Imagine a bank that loans money based on a borrower’s desperate circumstances -- where, as Muhammad Yunus says, “the less you have, the higher priority you have.”

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by Winston Churchill
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At MIT's Mid-Century Convocation held in 1949-described as "an intellectual festival of monumental proportions"-Sir Winston Churchill gave a rousing keynote address titled Mid-Century Convocation on the Social Implications of Scientific Progress.

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by Buckminster Fuller
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Renowned inventor and visionary 'Bucky' speaks at MIT on world changes in his lifetime in 1979.

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by Susan Sontag
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A conversation among visionaries about images in science that have changed the way we view ourselves, at a conference organized by science photographer Felice Frankel.

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by Carl Sagan
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The keynote speakers at a symposium at Endicott House discuss topics ranging from unemployment to climate change and the national debt, in Winter 1987.

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by Paul Krugman
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Economist Paul Krugman asks how we got ourselves into another Great Depression in this streaming video lecture provided by MIT World. When the U.S. was rocked with economic crisis in 2008, Krugman explains that many experts were left confused.

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by Noam Chomsky
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Renowned political activist and social critic Prof. Noam Chomsky reviews the origins and influences of global institutions created to preserve world order, following the end of the last world war half a century ago.

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