Elizabeth D’Arienzo—The Tech
Professor Rosalind W. Picard (right), founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group and co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, responds to a statement by Professor Susan S. Silbey (left), a Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Veritas forum this past Friday in Kresge. The forum was designed around the question “Will technology save the world?” and also featured Professor George Barbastathis and Professor José Gómez-Márquez.
STAFF REPORTER
March 13, 2012
Over 500 attendees congregated in Kresge Auditorium last Friday at 6 p.m. to ponder a single question: “Will Technology Save the World?”
March 13, 2012
With the Presidential Search Committee announced last Thursday, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) and the Undergraduate Association (UA) have formed a joint task force of undergraduate and graduate students (see below), six of which are part of the task force’s Executive Team. The group is responsible for gathering student input and advising the Presidential Search Committee as the MIT Corporation selects the next MIT President.
STAFF REPORTER
March 13, 2012
The UA wants all students to become RecycleManiacs! For the next two weeks, the UA Committee on Sustainability will be promoting a competition between dorms to see which can recycle the most. The competition will run March 12–23, and progress will be measured from information provided by Facilities on how material is recycled in the dorms.
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- Britain taking steps toward legalization of euthanasia (3/13/12)
- Shorts (right) (3/13/12)
- China hints at easing monetary policy, adjusting reserve ratio (3/13/12)
- House Republicans split over a bid to revise the budget deal (3/13/12)
- Santorum’s delegate math looks different from Romney’s (3/13/12)
- Weather: Unseasonably warm weather will continue (3/13/12)
Opinion
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (3/13/12)
- Anti-abortion legislation continues to proliferate at the state level (3/13/12; 2 comments)
- CORRECTIONS (3/13/12)
Sports
- ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: CURTIS WU ’14: Tennis, teammates, and thermodynamics (3/13/12)
- Basketball earns first-ever trip to national semifinals (3/13/12; 1 comment)
- Men’s and Women’s Track and Field compete in DIII Nationals (3/13/12)
- Baseball shuts out Gordon College, 10-0, for first victory of 2012 season (3/13/12)
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (3/13/12)
Campus Life
- IN YOUR COMMUNITY: Surviving, remembering, and fighting back (3/13/12)
- Events Mar. 13- Mar. 19 (3/13/12)
Arts
- Arts was not published this issue.
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