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...After joining the department as a visiting lecturer 15 years ago, Mitchnick was appointed senior preceptor and a Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Studio Arts in 1998. In recognition of her outstanding performance, Mitchnick was also awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize...
...made Wall Street's dubious derivatives look like Treasury bills. With an economy locked out of the global financial system, daring foreign hedge funds and institutional investors saw this obscure market - much like emerging investment funds in wine and fine art - as an opportunity to diversify, or seek "exotic beta," in finance parlance. Though real returns may occasionally hit the high double digits, says Shumba, investing here can seem like playing Russian roulette: the exchange is highly fickle and illiquid, with a total market capitalization that has fluctuated tenfold in the past year and a trading volume less than...
Medpedia—an online collaborative medical encyclopedia affiliated with Harvard Medical School—debuted Tuesday after months of closed beta testing, receiving 12,000 unique visits on its first day, according to its founder. James M. Currier, the Web site’s founder and chairman, said that the encyclopedia solicits advice and articles from medical professionals, including HMS professors, in an effort to serve as an accessible, comprehensive source for health-related information, which he said involves too much paper-pushing and not enough technology at present. He said that 5,000 medical professionals signed...
...Each toy includes a wireless headset equipped with forehead and ear sensors that read two kinds of brain waves - alpha and beta, naturally - then relay signals to the bases of the toys, triggering fans that cause the balls to rise. Mindflex's headgear comes with earlobe clips, which significantly increase the I-look-like-a-fool factor. The game requires players to move the ball sideways as well as vertically. There's a knob on the base unit that players must turn (the old-fashioned way, with their hands) while focusing to get the ball, for example, through a tiny...
Even as the site continues to grow, Magliozzi maintains that its purpose is not to make money. The Web site has filed for not-for-profit status and Magliozzi said that they do not plan to continue paying BETA testers after this year...