MIT World Audio & Video

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.

In this lively presentation Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com discusses many of the technological advances that have enabled Amazon.com to be the "earth's most customer centric company".

Perhaps the universe is not so much strange as brimming with lovely paradox. The search for such beauty seems to lie at the heart of Frank Wilczek’s work.

After 30 years of fiction writing, Atwood is expert at engineering an extreme spin on ordinary life, and pushing the everyday world to its limits. Her talk includes two readings from her latest novel, Oryx and Crake…

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.”

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.

"The Human Genome and Beyond" by Claude R. Canizares: Professor and Director, MIT Center for Space Research MIT Center for Space Research.

"Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse" celebrates the best of American ingenuity and inventiveness.

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

Americans have long embraced a notion of superiority, claims Howard Zinn. Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony described establishing “a city on a hill,” to serve the world as a beacon of liberty.