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Opinion: The Explainer: P vs. NP

28 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PDT

Written by gillooly@mit.edu (Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office)
Sipser also says that “the P-versus-NP problem has become broadly recognized in the mathematical community as a mathematical question that is fundamental and important and beautiful. I think it has helped bridge the mathematics and computer science communities.”

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Opinion: The easy way to go green

19 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PDT

At last Friday's Energy Night at the MIT Museum, Dr. Keith Collins described his approach to fighting global warming with all the gusto of a really good insurance salesman. But Collins, who graduated from MIT in 1970 with a degree in political science, wasn't actually selling anything. He w...

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Opinion: Physics in the MIT

01 Oct 2009 00:08:01 PDT

Written by Yan Z. '12
Gender imbalance has never influenced my experience at MIT. I'm a bit startled by your (Lulu's?) numbers, since at least half of the Physics majors I've met are women. Granted, I spend a lot of time around Undergraduate Women in Physics, which is perhaps not a representative sample of the ge...

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Opinion: Product Design, MIT style

27 Sep 2009 22:15:32 PDT

Written by Laura N. '09
The class is called The Product Development Process (or something like that, but who really cares? just call it 2.009 like a normal person) and all of the seniors in Mechanincal Engineering are split into teams, which are identified by color. (So there's Blue, Orange, Silver, Red, and of co...

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Opinion: A Characterization

28 Aug 2009 16:01:32 PDT

Written by Cristen C. '10
I don't like robots. Well, most of them are okay. The ones which for some reason look like people (vain creators perhaps?) creep me the heck out! But I'm sure if anyone is learning a lot from robots, it's my (perhaps 'geekier') peers at MIT....

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Opinion: Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13

10 Aug 2009 06:34:34 PDT

Written by Matt McGann '00
Still, Trevor Zinser says he was unsure he could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston to sway him to choose MIT over Harvard or Stanford. He says exceptional teachers, particularly science teacher Dave Sherden, worked hard to make classes deep and engaging.

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MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology news and blogs - November 21, 2009

21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Opinion: A Camera from a Sheet of Fiber -- from MIT Technology Review
• Opinion: University rankings: research and faculty quality -- from MIT Technology Review
• Opinion: Waste, or energy resource? -- from MIT News
• Opinion: Picking Pockets, Wirelessly -- from MIT Technology Review
• Opinion: MIT, Portuguese government strengthen joint research agenda -- from MIT News
• CONCERT REVIEW MIT Chamber Chorus Prepares for Harbison's Seventieth -- from The MIT Tech
• Opinion: Sugar Daddies: MIT grad starts high end prostitution web site ;-) -- from MIT Technology Review
• Opinion: "A Debt that cannot be repaid in full" -- from Payvand
• Opinion: Should Traditional Publishing Perish? -- by Ellen Duranceau from MIT Libraries News » Scholarly Communication
• Opinion: Parents, Please Read -- by Snively '11 from MIT Admissions | All Authors

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Opinion: What to expect when you're expecting CPW

15 Apr 2009 20:53:58 PDT

Written by Matt McGann '00
Similarly, you may or may not have the opportunity to have one of those real great conversations with professors. If it doesn't happen, don't be too disappointed; you're only here for two class days. When you're at MIT, you'll have many more opportunities to have meaningful interaction wi...

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Opinion: N.Y. Times, Page B11: "MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix"

05 Feb 2009 21:49:28 PST

Written by Matt McGann '00
A 6-foot-4 guard, Bartolotta is averaging 27.8 points a game, best in the New England Men’s and Women’s Athletics Conference and third best in Division III. He has led the Engineers to a 16-5 record and their best conference start at 7-1.

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Opinion: This title is irrelevant

28 Jan 2009 18:22:02 PST

Written by Yan Z. '12
That's 12 times up the tallest building in Cambridge. Continuously. There you have it, the story of how I went from being a poor undergraduate student to being a poor undergraduate student with a UROP. Now please excuse me while I go make sure my sleeves are glued on correctly.

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Opinion: Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

06 Jan 2009 15:20:31 PST

Written by Yan Z. '12
If you're not familiar with it yet, that January 5th constituted my introduction to FIRST robotics. Every night for six weeks after that, we drove to the Alewife MBTA station or directly into Cambridge, depending on traffic, to sit in the basement of a Sloan building. (Sloan is MIT's busine...

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Opinion: A Word of Warning (Pay Attention)

04 Jan 2009 03:31:10 PST

Written by Snively '11
When I sat down late last April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT that I would, in fact, be attending their school in the fall, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into. MIT is, well, MIT, right? After reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during...

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Opinion: Introduction to D-Lab

14 Oct 2008 21:26:54 PDT

Written by Paul B. '11
When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing to leaps to mind is almost always computer science, physics, or some other aspect of science and engineering. As important as it is, international development isn't exactly something MIT is world-renowned for. Yet.

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Opinion: Internet Nostalgia

04 Oct 2008 15:40:12 PDT

Written by Chris M. '12
I don't know if you can read that tiny text but apparently there is a low-res version for people with speeds "lower than 28.8 kbps" Lower than 28.8kbps?! I didn't even know that was possible!! Once again though, it's hard to blame them, I mean after all this is new technology, if we want an examp...

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Opinion: MIT Medical: A Freshman's Story

14 Aug 2008 15:16:00 PDT

Written by Paul B. '11
MIT Medlinks MIT Emergency Medical Services (EMTs) MIT Police Homepage MIT Nightline: 617-253-8800 (anonymous peer-listening service run by student volunteers) Boston Area Rape Crisis Center: 1-800-841-8371 MIT Emergency Phone Numbers

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Opinion: Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

08 May 2008 16:09:46 PDT

Written by Cambridge Program
The Cambridge-MIT Institute was founded to make two of the world's best universities better. In 1970, Dean of Institute Relations at MIT, Benson R. Snyder, published a book entitled "The Hidden Curriculum." In this book, Snyder provides a sweeping critique of MIT and a culture of bible-co...

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Opinion: MIT professor Junot Diaz wins Pulitzer for ‘Oscar Wao’

10 Apr 2008 12:46:42 PDT

Written by Oliver Mentken
Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately, the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and los...

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Opinion: Orgo and physics and math, oh my

25 Feb 2008 21:54:05 PST

Written by Paul B. '11
Finally, we come to the humanities section of my life. Because MIT requires all students to take 8 classes in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, most students fulfill that requirement by taking one "HASS" class each semester they're here. Last semester, though, I took four scienc...

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Opinion: An old man's thought of school

18 Feb 2008 14:15:23 PST

Written by Sam M. '07
Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT professors. During the first week of my product design and development class last semester, we were assigned a reading abou...

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Opinion: Ambulance! Ambulance!

09 Jan 2008 21:08:28 PST

Written by Jess K. '10
MIT-EMS (Emergency Medical Service) is a student-run volunteer ambulance service that provides basic life support to the MIT campus in Cambridge, as well as part of Boston, and runs 24/7 - which means a large number of greatly desired overnight shifts, many of which I have been taking la...

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Opinion: The City On A Hill

02 Jan 2008 08:41:19 PST

Written by Karen F. '11
Luckily, it's not in Chicago. It's in Massachusetts, and not a day has gone by without me thinking "TGI Boston" (even though we're actually in Cambridge) at least once. This is because Boston is an unbelievably cool city. From the music scene to the history and diversity and proximity of othe...

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Opinion: What Though the Odds

30 Dec 2007 22:30:00 PST

Written by Paul B. '11
A lot can happen in a semester, especially a semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like. People talk a lot about the "transitio...

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Opinion: Thinking Outside the Vessel: New Gel to Heal Coronary Arteries

26 Jun 2007 06:23:04 PDT

Written by Josh(jumbehr@gmail.com)
The blood-vessel wall is a complicated structure," says Elazer Edelman, director of the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center and cofounder of Pervasis. When the endothelium is damaged, it leads to a condition called intimal hyperplasia--an abnormal growth of smooth muscle ce...

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Opinion: Open courseware at MIT and beyond

09 Jun 2007 14:02:27 PDT

Written by Peter Suber
In the late 1990s, when everybody wanted to take advantage of the money-making opportunities offered by the internet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided that it, too, wanted a slice of the action. MIT was, and still is, one of the most prestigious universities in the wo...

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Opinion: Seeing Proteins with a New Vision

25 May 2007 12:41:31 PDT

Written by Michael
According to the MIT Press Office and MIT's Tech Review, a team of scientists from the institute's Center for Biological Engineering developed a novel, utrasensitive NMR probe, that has the potential to revolutionize research in genetics and protein analysis: The new highly sensiti...

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Opinion: Observing Prions in Action

11 May 2007 01:02:35 PDT

Written by Michael
Now, through studying nontoxic yeast prions, scientists at MIT and the Whitehead Institute have discovered small but critical regions within prions that determine much of their behavior. MIT Tech Review: Prion Infectivity Pinpointed ...

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