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...Computer For Every Child O.K., so his big brother John is director of national intelligence and delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the world's poorest children. The co-founder of M.I.T.'s Media Lab and former Wired columnist took a leave from academia last year to build a computer - a laptop so cheap that developing countries could buy them by the millions to help their kids leapfrog into the 21st century. It's an ambitious project, but the charismatic Negroponte has a persuasive pitch...
...Brigham and Women’s Hospital to fund research on factors that cause airport security personnel to overlook dangerous items that appear on the scanner screen. This grant is a supplement to a $460,000 grant awarded earlier this month to the hospital’s Visual Attention Lab, headed by Jeremy M. Wolfe, a professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. The hospital has been working with DHS’s Transportation Security Lab since shortly after September 11th, according to Wolfe. Research has shown that since screeners so rarely find a dangerous item, they are likely...
...Columbus Ave. 4. Friday, September 29, 2006 5-7 p.m. Saturday 30th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. Things aren’t really fun unless they’re breakable. Check out the “Great Glass Pumpkin Patch,” created by the Glass Lab at MIT, where students and artists have handblown glass into a thousand multi-colored pumpkins. You can check out the installation on Friday night, and pick your own on Saturday, when the veggies will be on sale for $20-$200. Take the Red Line to Kendall Square. 5. Thursday, September...
...themes” of combating disease, practiced by Harvard during the 1994 outbreak and refined during anthrax scares post-9/11. He describes Harvard’s new protocol in sweeping terms: “Monitoring the victims—probably with the Cambridge Health Department, lab testing to trace back to original source, caring for the sickest students, and cooperating with area hospitals. Prevention and prophylaxis [identifying and preemptively treating at-risk but not yet ill students] is always a concern.” Koh went on to cite a major difference between the health crisis efforts of today...
...since they were teenagers, were looking for a way to cook that would, in the words of Andrés, "respect the vegetable." In 2003, their pursuit led them to the Polytechnic's Department of Food Engineering, where they knocked on several doors before finally being directed to the lab where Xavier Martínez, Purificación García and Neus Sanjuan had been working for years on vacuum cooking. At first, there was a bit of culture shock as chefs and scientists tried to adapt to each others' way of thinking. "We spent the first month just...