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Daniel B. Elitzer G (left) and Jeremy L. Rubin ’16 (right) want to give every MIT undergraduate $100 in bitcoin.
EDITORS
April 29, 2014
Donors have committed to give $100 in bitcoin to each of MIT's about 4,500 undergraduates this fall. Jeremy L. Rubin '16 and Daniel B. Elitzer, a first-year Sloan MBA student, are spearheading the project, which they hope will sow the seeds of an innovative bitcoin 'ecosystem' at MIT.
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STAFF REPORTER
April 29, 2014
Two new classes will be introduced during the 2014-2015 academic year that will replace 6.00 (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming) and cover its entire curriculum. 6.00 is currently required for Course 9 and Course 20 majors.
April 29, 2014
On April 17, the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced the fifteen 2014 Hertz Fellows in the applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences. Of the fifteen Hertz Fellowship recipients, five are MIT students: Ian McKay ’12, Elizabeth Y. Qian ’14, Andrew J. Rzeznik G, Katharine Schutz ’14, and Asmamaw T. Wassie G. The fifteen fellows were selected from a pool of nearly 800 applicants.
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