Second Fridays at MIT Museum: Living in the Future

Come to MIT Museum and see what may be in your future!

Get a jump start on your weekend with the Second Friday Program at the MIT Museum! Second Friday Programs are oriented for open exploration with opportunities to attend performances, demonstrations, and lectures through out the museum galleries. November's 2013's Second Friday will focus on food science. Featuring Kenji López-Alt, Chief Creative Officer of Seriouseats.com and members of Clover Food Lab.

High speed robots? Humans colonizing space? How do today’s technologies reflect what we’ve seen on the big screen? Sit back, grab some pizza and popcorn, and enjoy short clips from the fantastic and futuristic movies of yesterday and today. Then, hear from scientists and inventors about how close we are to taking the "fiction" out of "science fiction!"

Free with Museum admission; pizza available 5-6pm.

Presentations by:

  • MARIO BOLLINI - Autonomous Cookie-baking Robots
    • Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder of GRIT
  • OLIVIER DE WECK - Humans as a Multi-planet Species
    • Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT
  • ELINOR KARLSSON - Genetic Engineering
    • Postdoctoral Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • SANGBAE KIM - Robo Cheetah
    • Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomimetic Robotics Lab, MIT
  • SKYLAR TIBBITS- 4D Printing
    • Research Scientist. Director, Self-Assembly Lab, MIT

 

Free with Museum admission.

When: 
Friday, September 12, 2014 5-8pm
Location: 
Prices: 
Included in Museum Admission
Phone: 
617.253.5927
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