MIT Sketch Understanding Demo

Oxygen user technologies

Haystack and the Semantic Web support personalized information management and collaboration through metadata management and manipulation. ASSIST helps extract design rationales from simple sketches.

The Argument Skit

The Argument Skit (or Argument or Argument Clinic) is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. It appeared in the show's 29th episode. The skit's premise involves a service that exposes customers to unpleasant experiences for a fee. For example, one can pay to be verbally abused (by Chapman) or to engage in an argument.

Yes Prime Minister - Who Reads the Papers

The Yes Prime Minister clip with Jim Hacker discussing who reads the papers in Britain.

Tesla, The Genius Who Lit The World

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age. This program reveals the discoveries of a forgotten genius, many of which went unnoticed for nearly a century. How did this obscure visionary from what is now Yugoslavia lay the foundation for modern communication – and which of his inventions were considered a little too revolutionary by government agencies and the power brokers of the time.

Among his discoveries are: fluorescent light, the laser beam, wireless communications, wireless transmission of electrical energy, remote control, robotics, Tesla’s turbines and vertical take off aircraft. Tesla is the father of the radio and the modern electrical transmission system. Tesla registered over 700 patents worldwide. His vision included power from the sea, exploration of solar energy, the discovery of cosmic radio waves, and the use of the ionosphere for scientific purposes.

He foresaw interplanetary communications and satellites.

Carlton Draught Bid Ad

The Carlton Draught Big Ad is an award-winning advertisement for Carlton Draught created by George Patterson and Partners (Young & Rubicam) of Melbourne, which used viral marketing techniques before being released on television. It premiered on Australian television on 7 August 2005.

In the advertisement, two armies, one dressed in maroon, the other in yellow, march toward one another singing "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, but replaced with lyrics such as "It’s a big ad/...expensive ad/This ad better sell some bloody beer". A heroic figure on horseback leads the charge. Viewed from the air, we see the armies form a glass of Carlton Draught and a human body. The glass is then lifted to the mouth, and the audience sees the beer (the rushing, ecstatically leaping yellow-clad men) flowing into the stomach of the figure.

1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Tank Man or the Unknown Rebel is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who is seen to stand in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks, preventing their advance. The most widely reproduced version of the photograph was taken by Jeff Widener (Associated Press), from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile away, through a 400mm lens.

Google at The Economic Club of Chicago

Presentation by Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Chicago Economic Club on Google, advertising, the internet and the future of technology.

The pleasure of finding things out - R. Feynman

THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales -- about childhood, Los Alamos and the Bomb, or how he won a Nobel Prize -- are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.

The Open Mind - Milton Friedman

Transcript: THE OPEN MIND for broadcast in New York City on WPIX, Channel 11
Sunday, December 7, 1975, 10:30 - 11:00 P.M.
Moderator/Host Richard D. Heffner
Guest: Milton Friedman, economist

White & Nerdy

"White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released on September 26, 2006. It parodies the song "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone. The song both laments and revels in nerdiness, as recited by the subject who can't "roll with the gangstas" because he is "just too white and nerdy", and includes constant references to stereotypically nerdy things, such as editing Wikipedia and playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Bloody peasant

One of the funniest scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Dennis, the anarcho-syndicalist peasant, points out the violence inherent in the system and is subsequently repressed.

Dead Parrot

The Dead Parrot sketch, alternatively and originally known as Pet Shop sketch or Parrot Sketch, is a popular sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, one of the most famous in the history of television comedy.

It portrays a conflict between disgruntled customer Mr. Eric Praline (played by John Cleese), and a shopkeeper (Michael Palin), who hold contradictory positions on the vital state of a Norwegian Blue parrot (an apparent absurdity in itself since parrots are popularly presumed to be tropical and not indigenous to Scandinavia). The skit pokes fun at the many euphemisms for death used in English culture.

Fidel Castro for Stroh's Light beer

Dubbed commercial from Stroh's Light Beer

Stargaze - Hubble's View Of The Universe

"StarGaze" brings the beauty and majesty of the universe to your home theater, direct from the Hubble Space Telescope with over an hour of the most incredible images of the universe you'll ever see, from gaseous clouds to more than 200 other astronomical objects, plus Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound music from popular new age group 2002.

Kiwi!

Dony Permedi Master's thesis animation video. Created using Maya, After Effects, and rigged using The Setup Machine by Anzovin studios.

BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype

BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.

Independence Day - President Whitmore Speech

The heart-wrenching speech made by President Thomas J. Whitemore prior to the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind in the movie Independence Day.

The Fountainhead - Howard Roark Speech

From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Gary Cooper as Howard Roark delivers the memorable courtroom speech in self-defense for dynamiting Courtland.

Children of the Secret State

Children of the Secret State is an investigation into North Korea, considered by many as the last Stalinist dictatorship, a hidden and sealed country riddled with propaganda and saturated with hostility to democracy and the West.

Globalisation is Good

The world is an unequal and unjust place, in which some are born into wealth and some into hunger and misery. To explore why, in this controversial Channel Four documentary the young Swedish writer Johan Norberg takes the viewers on a journey to Taiwan, Vietnam, Kenya and Brussels to see the impact of globalisation, and the consequences of its absence. It makes the case that the problem in the world is not too much capitalism, globalisation and multinationals, but too little.

Every Breath You Take

Columbia Business School's Dean Glenn Hubbard sings about wanting Alan Greenspan's job that went instead to New Fed Chair Ben Bernanke. Parody created by Columbia Business School students.

Flight Patterns

The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.

The Philosophy of Liberty

An 8-minute animated video presentation explaining the basis for individual rights and responsibilities in a free society. Taken from the epilogue of The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible; A Free Market Odyssey, written by Ken Schoolland. Excellent for students or anyone else exploring the philosophy of freedom. Shows that we can give to government only those powers we, ourselves, possess.

A terrifying message from Al Gore

From the creators of Futurama comes a terrifying message from Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth is now playing in theaters.

Amish Paradise

"Amish Paradise" is "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of the hip hop song "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio. Found on the album Bad Hair Day, it turns the original "Gangsta's Paradise," in which the narrator laments his dangerous way of life, on its head by presenting an Amish man praising his relatively tedious and unsophisticated existence.