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...hope they don’t kick us out,” Bill told me. “They have more money than God, so they act like they can do whatever they want.” Yet Bill sees a different use for a fraction of that money when Harvard comes to Allston: “The place does need fixing, that’s for sure...
...based in San Jose, Calif., has designed an advanced video-processing chip that cleans up video for all sorts of displays. The private company's secret sauce is its Realta chip, which enables real-time, pixel-by-pixel processing of HDTV, delivering Hollywood-quality video to consumers at a fraction of the cost. It's like having a "supercomputer on a chip," boasts Paul Russo, 62, Silicon Optix's fast-talking CEO. The Realta is truly industry changing because it's the first programmable video-chip processor. The video chips can be upgraded on site or over...
...winning proposal submitted by the Astronomy Department was spurred in part by an article in The Crimson stating that science students are less likely to study abroad. “We have no problems with that,” he said. “Chile has a significant fraction of the world’s leading astronomical facilities. Students will be able to participate in hands-on research in the astro-physical field.” In general, the proposals fall into two categories—funding to explore countries for future student programs, and grants that establish trips students...
...middle 65 to 75 percent are assigned a Category II grade.Zaman and Ruback both said that grading system does not seem to provide the right incentives to make students focus on their academic work.“People think that they won’t be in the top fraction of the class and that they won’t fail out,” Zaman said, “so many of them take on the attitude that they don’t need to work as hard.”Ruback wrote in his letter that optional disclosure...
...Spokespeople for several other peer schools were not available for comment last night or said that they had not yet released their early-admission figures. Fitzsimmons said the number of students this fall requesting fee waivers on their applications is almost identical to the number last year, when the fraction of students asking for waivers jumped nearly 50 percent from 2003, to 215. The admissions office attributed the sustained increase principally to the new Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, under which the College no longer requires parental contributions from families with annual incomes below $40,000. The initiative also reduces...