
Ben Stanfield
Steve Jobs, in his characteristic blue jeans and black turtleneck, gives one of his famous keynote addresses.
October 7, 2011
On July 1, Samuel M. Allen PhD ’75 succeeded Tom A. Kochan as the chair of the faculty.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
October 7, 2011
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies, and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56.
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
October 7, 2011
Postdoctoral researchers at MIT have decided to take matters into their own hands. Postdocs will be represented by the new, autonomous Postdoctoral Association (PDA) instead of the Postdoctoral Advisory Council (PAC), which was organized by the office of the vice president for research. The move gives MIT postdocs an organization more similar to the Undergraduate Association or the Graduate Student Council.
October 7, 2011
Economy Hardware — formerly the value hardware store of choice for many MIT students — still seems to be “spring cleaning.” Though it began renovations last December, a store representative said that Economy Hardware plans to reopen its location in Central Square by the end of this month. The store originally hoped to be open this spring.
More News
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- IN SHORT (10/7/11)
- CORRECTIONS (10/7/11; 1 comment)
World and Nation
- Shorts (left) (10/7/11)
- Anti-tax pledges lose their allure as eyes turn to reform (10/7/11)
- Shorts (right) (10/7/11)
- White House orders new computer security rules (10/7/11)
- Strong retail sales send stocks higher for third day (10/7/11)
- Obama obliquely warns Pakistan about long-term relations (10/7/11)
- Tomas Transtromer, Swedish poet, wins Nobel Prize in literature (10/7/11)
- Weather: Weather (10/7/11)
Opinion
- Why moving farther right is so wrong (10/7/11; 3 comments)
- A state of their own (10/7/11; 6 comments)
- Rush is good — but too rushed (10/7/11)
Sports
- Sailing takes 8th at Danmark Trophy (10/7/11)
- MIT wins against Babson (10/7/11)
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (10/7/11)
Campus Life
- Campus Life was not published this issue.