The InfiniteMIT site is history as it is happening: interviews with legendary change-makers, contemporary and archival footage, unforgettable lectures, speeches, and symposia, community celebrations, and the whimsical ingenuity of MIT humor and hacks.
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The InfiniteMIT site is history as it is happening: interviews with legendary change-makers, contemporary and archival footage, unforgettable lectures, speeches, and symposia, community celebrations, and the whimsical ingenuity of MIT humor and hacks.
Apr 02, 2008
"But in fact, the most memorable people that I have encountered as a citizen and as a journalist are those whose names I never knew."
Tom Brokaw
NBC Journalist
Compton Lecture
Jan 04, 1987
"The first woman recipient of the Killian award discusses carbon research in her lecture on "New Materials Through Science and New Science Through Materials"."
Mildred S. Dresselhaus (1930-2017)
Institute Professor
15th Killian Award Lecture
Apr 06, 1984
"I am speaking instead of the joy-producing, world-bettering kind of responsibility which lifts far more burdens than it imposes."
Hon. Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator, Author
MIT Commencement Address, 1984
Jan 04, 1949
"Scientists should never underrate the deep-seated qualities of human nature, and how, repressed in one direction, they will certainly breakout in another."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Statesman, Writer, Orator
Mid-Century Convocation
Apr 26, 2011
"Get into something, be tenacious about it. Be a teamplayer. Make sure you understand that communicating is not just talking, it's also listening."
Frederick H. Hauck SM '66
United States Navy Captain, NASA Astronaut
MIT 150 Symposium
Apr 02, 2008
"But in fact, the most memorable people that I have encountered as a citizen and as a journalist are those whose names I never knew."
Tom Brokaw
NBC Journalist
Compton Lecture
Jan 04, 1987
"The first woman recipient of the Killian award discusses carbon research in her lecture on "New Materials Through Science and New Science Through Materials"."
Mildred S. Dresselhaus (1930-2017)
Institute Professor
15th Killian Award Lecture
Apr 06, 1984
"I am speaking instead of the joy-producing, world-bettering kind of responsibility which lifts far more burdens than it imposes."
Hon. Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator, Author
MIT Commencement Address, 1984
Jan 04, 1949
"Scientists should never underrate the deep-seated qualities of human nature, and how, repressed in one direction, they will certainly breakout in another."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Statesman, Writer, Orator
Mid-Century Convocation
Apr 26, 2011
"Get into something, be tenacious about it. Be a teamplayer. Make sure you understand that communicating is not just talking, it's also listening."
Frederick H. Hauck SM '66
United States Navy Captain, NASA Astronaut
MIT 150 Symposium
Apr 02, 2008
"But in fact, the most memorable people that I have encountered as a citizen and as a journalist are those whose names I never knew."
Tom Brokaw
NBC Journalist
Compton Lecture
Jan 04, 1987
"The first woman recipient of the Killian award discusses carbon research in her lecture on "New Materials Through Science and New Science Through Materials"."
Mildred S. Dresselhaus (1930-2017)
Institute Professor
15th Killian Award Lecture
Apr 06, 1984
"I am speaking instead of the joy-producing, world-bettering kind of responsibility which lifts far more burdens than it imposes."
Hon. Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator, Author
MIT Commencement Address, 1984
Jan 04, 1949
"Scientists should never underrate the deep-seated qualities of human nature, and how, repressed in one direction, they will certainly breakout in another."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Statesman, Writer, Orator
Mid-Century Convocation
Apr 26, 2011
"Get into something, be tenacious about it. Be a teamplayer. Make sure you understand that communicating is not just talking, it's also listening."
Frederick H. Hauck SM '66
United States Navy Captain, NASA Astronaut
MIT 150 Symposium