MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1 hr 3 min - 11-Jan-08 2nd part of a course of Peter Gloor about Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarmcreativity taught in January 2008 as part of MIT IAP

By rss@youtube.com (sweetser) Part of the Stand-Up Physicist series, half hour chats by Doug Sweetser about his theoretical physics research. This is the third of six talks given to a very small audience at MIT during the Independent Activities Period (IAP). The topics covered are relativistic and classical gravity. T...

By Ryan Gray Going Beyond Google Scholar: Using the Web of Science and Other Citation Searching Resources to Discover Articles EndNote Basics Introduction to Stata Cool Tools for Science and Engineering Research: Meet the Developers! Making Your Own Videos for the Web & MIT TechTV

By Cam T. '13 I may have to drop it, though, this IAP; I barely have time to keep up with meals and laundry, as is, and I've been sick for the last four days. Time to rest up. But, hey, there's always next year, right? (Unless they really use the LHC, which is a supermegaworldbomb -- don't let the rumors that it'...

By Ryan Gray Check out all of the MIT Libraries IAP events for the week covering Monday, January 11 through Friday, January 15. Also check out the complete listing for all of our sessions. Rotch Library Film Series Power Up!: Strategies for Getting Energy Information Power Up with Maps! GIS and Energy R...

By Ryan Gray Looking to gain skills in working with statistical analysis software packages?  The following classes will be taught by the Harvard-MIT Data Center (HMDC) Statistical Consultant during IAP.  Note: there will be time at the end of each session for individual assistance, so feel free to...

By Ryan Gray Join the staff of Rotch Visual Collections for an hour devoted to exploring recent acquisitions – all of which are located in Dome, MIT’s digital repository. Images to be shown and discussed include recent additions to the Aga Khan Visual Archive; images of modernist architecture in Ind...

By Ryan Gray WHEN: Wednesday, January 27, 4 – 5pm WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132 Contact Remlee Green with any questions. Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions. This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.

By Ryan Gray Genomics, microarrays, and massively parallel applications such as next generation sequencing have made biology research a highly quantitative field. As a result, many biologists face the challenge of mastering computers and computational methods. Our sessions are designed to beg...

By Ryan Gray You may be a skilled investigator on the topic of science or engineering, but what do you know about business research? This session will introduce you to library-supported databases that cover company and industry information. We will use hands-on exercises to demonstrate strategie...

By Ryan Gray WHEN: Thursday, January 21, 4 – 5pm WHERE: 2-105 Contact Howard Silver with any questions. Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.

By Ryan Gray MIT GIS Services will be offering a series of workshops to introduce the MIT community to Geographic Information Systems and the world of Digital Mapping. All workshops will combine lectures about concepts with hands-on exercises. MIT GIS Services are cooperatively supported by the MI...

By Ryan Gray Are you new to teaching or TAing at MIT, or are you an Admin Assistant who supports teaching faculty? Or do you just want to learn more about course reserves and copyright? Reserves staff from around the MIT Libraries will be available to answer questions.

By Ryan Gray This hands-on workshop will familiarize you with the resources of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Harvard-MIT Data Center, which provide access to datasets in the social sciences and related fields. Topics will include the structur...

By Ryan Gray Join us for a hands-on demo of BrainNavigator, a new product sponsored by the MIT Libraries. Navigating brain structures is complex—especially in small subjects like rats and mice. It’s easy to get lost as you view structures, make injections and analyze research. BrainNavigator is a col...

By Ryan Gray Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak, recently of Choate, Hall and Stewart and now at the TLO, discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents. WHERE: 3-133

By Ryan Gray Intended for graduated students or other interested MIT authors, addresses what copyright means to you as an author, how you can assess a publisher’s copyright policies, and how you can use web-based tools that assess journal quality. Open access publishing models, the new MIT Faculty...

By Ryan Gray WHEN: Monday, January 11, 5 – 6pm & Thursday, January 28, 12 – 1pm WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132 Contact Mathew Willmott with any questions. Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions. This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.

By Ryan Gray Learn how to use the BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) and Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) bioinformatics tools licensed by MIT Libraries. Interested in systems biology, biomarkers, drug target discovery, and high-throughput data analysis? Learn to use HGMD, a comprehensive dat...

By Ryan Gray Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 20 participants. Contact Erja Kajosalo with any questions. Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions. This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.

By Ryan Gray If you are a researcher in chemistry, or chemistry related subjects like chemical engineering, materials science, environmental science, biological sciences, etc., then you should know about SciFinder, the most comprehensive chemical information database.

By Jenny X. '13 • Java/Python/C++?? – So there’s a bunch of IAP offerings on programming. The options include Postscript, Python, C, C++, Haskell, and Java. I have not heard of half of the aforementioned languages, but gathering from Chris’s latest post, 630 MIT students are course 6! I have got to taste s...

By Ryan Gray Browse books, CDs, DVDs and audiobooks from the collections of the Humanities and Music Libraries. Enjoy some leisure reading, watching, and listening during IAP. Come check us out! Browse books, CDs, DVDs and audiobooks from the collections of the Humanities and Music Libraries.

MIT is the only college in the country that offers its students the opportunity to assist in Teach For America classrooms. Students will be working in Massachusetts, and around the country in the states of Wisconsin, Florida and Texas.

By Yan Z. '12 The author hypothesizes that MIT Medical and IS&T should jointly investigate the frequency of laptop suicides over IAP in order to prevent the horrifying and tragic results of undiagnosed disorders in poorly-written code.

By Marcela R. '13 The planet itself is well equipped with space stations and rockets ready to launch. The stations are named MISTI, Go Global, D-Lab, IAP, MITPSC (Public Service Center), UROP, and many more names that just won't fit here. But there are an incredible number of rockets leaving each station ev...

By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series: When: Thursday and Fridays during IAP; Thursday, January 8, 2009 - Friday, January 30, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 Did you know that the Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning maintains an impressive DVD collection, with new tit...

By Jonah Jenkins Rotch Library IAP Film Series: When: 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Thursday, January 15, 2009 Where: Rotch Library Conference Room, 7-238 The Future Of Mud (2007) The Future of Mud is a tale of houses and lives in Djenne (2007) - Through the story of a mason in Djenne, this documentary examines an Afri...

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