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Four years ago, Harvard laid out an ambitious plan for a program to foster research at the intersection of computing and other scientific disciplines, then prepared for the initiative??s “rapid startup...
...financial disconnect has brought to light fundamental disagreements about how the initiative??s growth should proceed. While some of the initiative??s members say the University has reneged on its promise to maintain the project’s momentum, central administrators say the imbalance stems from overzealous expansion that lacked budgetary caution...
...Hyman, who chairs HUSEC, said he supports the Initiative??s goals and has been actively fundraising for it, but that “there’s just a finite amount of money...
...Pavlos Protopapas, a senior scientist at the IIC, said the slow-down in funding has hampered his projects, forcing him to rely on outside support. He added that the Initiative??s non-faculty members, like him, had been encouraged to pair up with faculty to get funding...
...never having studied economics—Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work’s impact on the field. Tuesday’s presentation was the first of three talks to be given by Kahneman this week as part of the Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative??s 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series. Kahneman opened the evening by presenting a series of examples of persistent flaws in intuition. In his “Linda” scenario, for example, Kahneman revealed the tendency for people to misjudge probabilities. Respondents frequently estimate that the likelihood of a woman...