MIT World

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.

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

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."

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.

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

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.

This lecture on the Philosophy of Conflict Resolution was conducted by John Hume at MIT in 2001. John Hume was awarded a Nobel Laureate for Peace for his work in his native Northern Ireland.