Introduction and lumped abstraction View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu More courses at ocw.mit.edu
More: Lec 1 | MIT 6.002 Circuits and Electronics, Spring 2007
Introduction and lumped abstraction View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu More courses at ocw.mit.edu
More: Lec 1 | MIT 6.002 Circuits and Electronics, Spring 2007
Lewin’s physics lectures at MIT are legendary. What does he think about bad professors? This is what he told us in an interview at Barcelona (Spain), Feb 15. More info: noticias.lainformacion.com
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This video shows how scientists at the MIT Media Lab (www.media.mit.edu/) reconstruct a hidden object using scattered laser light. Future applications may include seeing in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas. Read the original research: www.nature.com Check out the researchers’ project URL: cornar.info And first author’s web page http Animations by Sam Woolf: www.samwoolf.net Music by Jay Marsh www.jaymarshmusic.com
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Watch some of Walter Lewin’s greatest moments. To see more, check out Professor Lewin’s classes, Physics 8.01 (ocw.mit.edu 8.02 (ocw.mit.edu and 8.03 (ocw.mit.edu on MIT OpenCourseWare (ocw.mit.edu). License Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu
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For decades, academic and industry researchers have been working on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters — robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guidance. Dozens of research teams have competed in a series of autonomous-helicopter challenges posed by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI); progress has been so rapid that the last two challenges have involved indoor navigation without the use of GPS. But MIT’s Robust Robotics Group — which fielded the team that won the last AUVSI contest — has set itself an even tougher challenge: developing autonomous-control algorithms for the indoor flight of GPS-denied airplanes. At the 2011 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), a team of researchers from the group described an algorithm for calculating a plane’s trajectory; in 2012, at the same conference, they presented an algorithm for determining its “state” — its location, physical orientation, velocity and acceleration. Now, the MIT researchers have completed a series of flight tests in which an autonomous robotic plane running their state-estimation algorithm successfully threaded its way among pillars in the parking garage under MIT’s Stata Center. Read more: web.mit.edu Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News Additional footage courtesy of: Adam Bry, Nicholas Roy, Abraham Bachrach of the Robust Robotics Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of …
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Lecture 1, Introduction Instructor: Alan V. Oppenheim View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu More courses at ocw.mit.edu
Excerpt from: Lecture 1, Introduction | MIT RES.6.007 Signals and Systems, Spring 2011
This video is a TV show made about the software Ivan Sutherland developed in his 1963 thesis at MIT’s Lincoln Labs, “Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System”, described as one of the most influential computer programs ever written. This work was seminal in Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), Computer Aided Design (CAD), and contraint/object-oriented programming. While watching this video, remember that the TX-2 computer (built circa 1958) on which the software ran was built from discrete transistors (not integrated circuits -it was room-sized) and contained just 64K of 36-bit words (~272k bytes). (1/2) youtube.com (2/2) youtube.com
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SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. By using a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant like wearable device, SixthSense sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself. SixthSense attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer. For more information, please visit the sixthsense project website : www.pranavmistry.com and www.communautes-numeriques.net www.toutwindows.com