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...Applied Physics and Physics professor Efthimios Kaxiras and SEAS Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering J. Gregory Morrisett. This semester’s speakers include Alfred A. Rizzi, the lead robotics scientist at Boston Dynamics, and Jennifer T. Chayes, the managing director of the new Microsoft Research New England laboratory in Cambridge. The first seminar on Oct. 8 will be led by Rizzi, who has worked extensively on the control of robotic movements. It will focus on a discussion about BigDog, a quadruped robot with advanced motor skills that can “walk, run, climb, carry loads, resist...
...next revelation was that seeing my friends at CVS also brought me joy, and that it was presumably because I was just as homesick as they were.At Harvard, almost all of us live far from home. For the class of 2012, 82.6% of students come from outside New England, with 11.7% coming from outside of the United States. While it makes for a more varied student body than one would meet at most state schools, Harvard’s geographical diversity contributes to a certain amount of loneliness. There are times when all we really want is a sandwich from...
...dismal conditions caused the cancellation of the Boston University Invitational Regatta, as well as a disappointing ninth-place finish in the Hood Trophy at Tufts. The weekend was not without its successes, however, as women’s captain Megan Watson earner a fifth-place finish in the New England Women’s Singlehanded Championship in New London, Conn., qualifying for the National Championship. NEW ENGLAND WOMEN’S SINGLEHANDED CHAMPIONSHIP With a knee injury to junior Liz Powers, Watson was the Crimson’s sole competitor at the Singlehanded Championship, hosted by Connecticut College. Watson...
...England Brown Faces Down Critics Prime Minister Gordon Brown scored a reprieve from those within his party pushing for his ouster. In a heralded speech at Labour's annual meeting in Manchester on Sept. 23, Brown said the country's current financial turmoil--echoing credit-crisis woes in the U.S.--meant this was "no time for a novice." He went on to refer to Labour as a "rock of stability...
...It’s definitely challenging because New England has by far the best singlehanded sailors in the country. The region is completely stacked,” Watson said...