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...Kipman also showed me a version of Burnout that had been set up to work with Project Natal. Burnout is a serious game, not just a tech demo - it's a polished, fast-paced racing game with high-end graphics, and I happen to have played a lot of it. With Project Natal, instead of using a joystick, you steer by holding your hands up in the air like you're gripping a steering wheel. To hit the gas, you move your foot forward along the floor. To brake, you move it back. To trigger the turbo boost...
...Richard P. Draves ’85, now a research area manager at Microsoft, remembers, “There were these rooms of terminals in the basement of the Science Center.” The central machine was a VAX 11/780. “It was not a very fast processor,” Draves recalls, “and [at any given time] it was being shared among about 50 students...
...Fast-forward to the present. Now, in 2009, we’re operating within an intellectual structure that took shape more than a century ago. It’s a worthy and venerable old edifice, but definitely getting a bit creaky. The oddity of departmental existence struck me forcefully this year as I watched my three freshmen advisees grapple with the tough question of concentration choice. Some students, upon comparing their academic inclinations with the concentration offerings, are able to slide easily into a field. But others cannot, because the fit doesn’t seem right...
...exchange programs, attended a closed luncheon in Quincy House, and strolled through Widener Library; the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Peabody Museums; and the Russian Research Center.The delegates noticed large differences between life in the U.S. and the USSR.“The tempo in the United States is very fast,” delegation leader Nikolai Voshchinin said at a news conference.Although U.S.-Soviet relations were the talk of the town, the delegates, who arrived in the wake of Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s U.S. visit, strayed from political discussion, focusing instead on cultural exchange, in what appeared...
...dinner later and that was nice,” Nightingale added, gazing into Rinehart’s eyes. The couple met their freshman year in a Russian class. After getting to know each other while studying for the class in Weld, where they both lived, the two became fast friends and soon started dating. “Daniel’s always sweet to me. He’s a good guy and he makes me laugh,” Nightingale said. “I always feel comfortable when I’m around...