Word: experimentã
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...twitter runs special promotions, including playing Twitter hide-and-seek with burger vouchers around Boston.Over the weekend, Olinto offered free sweet potato fries from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday at its Harvard Square location. He found the number of people who responded to the experiment??thirty—somewhat disappointing, but will continue to roll out promotions.Eric C. Chen ’11 is a b.good follower who was already a customer when he discovered the chain’s account. “I like the fact that this is a local restaurant trying...
...collective intelligence, where aggregate data from individual use of electronic media is compiled on a massive scale. Collective intelligence is a potentially groundbreaking development in cyberspace, allowing community organizers and advertising firms alike to tailor their message for the broader public. While we have no qualms with the MIT experiment??which is clearly a well-designed research project conducted with human subjects who have provided informed consent—we believe that it is time for policymakers and concerned citizens to begin a careful and informed dialogue regarding the new role of privacy rights in the 21st century...
...consortium will facilitate communication between students from different fields, according to Muhelegger. He hopes the program will focus on how economics and political science can provide frameworks for addressing problems that arise in the making of energy or environmental policy. The consortium—an “experiment?? at the moment—will serve as a template for fields such as microbial sciences and global health, according to Schrag. The level of student interest has been a driving force behind the program’s implementation, he said. “When we created this...
Students fortunate enough to be selected for the “Experiment?? program traveled to Poland or the Soviet Union and mingled with students in that country, staying in Warsaw or Krakow in Poland or moving around from region to region in the USSR...
Myra B. Ramos, who graduated from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) in 1959 and who was a participant in the “Experiment?? program, found that being in the USSR during an international crisis—the landing of U.S. Marines in Lebanon—did not stop Soviet citizens from being friendly to her and other Americans...