
MIT
private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1861
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Videos Mentioning MIT

Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #116
Lex Fridman
Academic institution where Sarah Seager is a planetary scientist and where the TESS mission is led.

The Future of Intelligence: A Conversation with Jeff Hawkins (Episode #255)
Sam Harris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Jeff Hawkins initially applied for graduate studies in AI.

Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics | Lex Fridman Podcast #113
Lex Fridman
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Manolis Kellis is a professor and leads the Computational Biology Group.

Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right | Lex Fridman Podcast #60
Lex Fridman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where James Gates Jr. was a freshman and later a graduate student, conducting his foundational work on supersymmetry.

Classpass Founder: Quitting My 9-5 Led To A $1 Billion Business: Payal Kadakia | E141
The Diary Of A CEO
Mentioned as the alma mater of Payal Kadakia, highlighting her educational background which combined with her passion, made her uniquely suited to build ClassPass.

David Yarrow on Art, Markets, Business, and Combining It All | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mentioned as a platform for people building careers in finance.

Open Learning Talks | Hip Hop, Technology, and Narrative
MIT Open Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Fox Harrell works and where the collaboration originated.

Phil Libin at Startup School 2013
Y Combinator
Mentioned as the origin of the second startup, Corasource, and the source of a brilliant cryptographer.

Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #57
Lex Fridman
Institution where studies on data collection and affective computing are being conducted, referenced by Lex Fridman and Rohit Prasad.

Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision | Lex Fridman Podcast #110
Lex Fridman
The institution where Seymour Papert proposed the Summer Vision Project.

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
Lex Fridman
The institution where CTSS was developed and a partner in the Multics project, recognized for its significant contributions to computer science.

Drew Houston Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
Tim Ferriss
Drew Houston's alma mater, where he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 2006. He pursued a startup idea during a leave of absence from MIT.

Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #108
Lex Fridman
The institution where Jacob Andreas is now a professor.

Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse by Rob Reid and Sam Harris
Sam Harris
A partner in the Broad Institute, a hub for genetic science.

Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation | Lex Fridman Podcast #14
Lex Fridman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Kyle Vogt studied.

Chris Dixon at Startup School 2013
Y Combinator
Cited as the institution from which the brilliant engineer who solved the technical problems for Dropbox likely came.

Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine | Lex Fridman Podcast #105
Lex Fridman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Robert Langer is a professor and has launched many biotech companies from.

Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars | Lex Fridman Podcast #51
Lex Fridman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Dava Newman is an Apollo program professor.

Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #53
Lex Fridman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Noam Chomsky worked for over 60 years and where Lex Fridman first met him.

Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare | Lex Fridman Podcast #52
Lex Fridman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Gilbert Strang is a professor.

How to Build a Universe: A Conversation with Frank Wilczek (Episode #238)
Sam Harris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Frank Wilczek is a professor of physics.

Sterling Anderson, Co-Founder, Aurora - MIT Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Sterling Anderson conducted his PhD research on shared human-machine control and later returned to speak.

MIT AGI: Building machines that see, learn, and think like people (Josh Tenenbaum)
Lex Fridman
The academic institution where Josh Tenenbaum is a professor and where the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines is hosted.

MIT 6.S091: Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL)
Lex Fridman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the institution where this lecture 'Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning' is being given.