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...Hoping for a fast start, NASA's bosses didn't try to build labs, staff and launch sites from scratch. Rather, they went around the country cherry-picking military and academic institutions that were already doing the right kind of work and inviting them to join the new group. They went to Pasadena, where the California Institute of Technology operated its little-known Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and extended an invitation there. They made the same offer up the coast at Moffett Field, Calif., where the military operated its Ames Research Center, and also gathered up the government's missile...
...there was a very expensive exception to the business plan. Once NASA actually began flying human beings in space, it would need a place from which to run those missions. Cape Canaveral was the sensible site; no reason not to operate your missions from the same place you launch them. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, however, didn?t see things that way. If federal space goodies were going to be handed out, he wanted his native Texas to get its share. And as de facto head of the nation's space effort as well as the former Democratic leader...
Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences recently announced the launch of a joint colloquium series that will bring together those interested in computing and the sciences. Each semester, the colloquium will feature two speakers who will discuss issues related to both fields, according to a press release issued last week. “There are clearly a lot of connections between the interests of the IIC and the things that are happening in comp sci in SEAS, and the challenge has been to get people to sit down and engage...
Stephanie H. Kenen, a former assistant dean of Harvard College, was recently named Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education. Her primary task in this new role is to help implement the new Gen Ed program, which is set to launch next fall. Kenen shares her new position with Noel Bisson, who was also appointed to the post in August, but it is Kenen’s task to make sure that Gen Ed is fully functional by next fall. “The areas of my duties are largely the same,” said Kenen, who was previously an assistant...
...Sept. 24 launch of MySpace Music has made it easier to find and listen to free, major-label music on the Web. But it's not the only game in town. As online-music aficionados already know, there are several other free sites where you can pretty much do the same thing, including Imeem, Last.fm and SpiralFrog. Among these, Imeem has the largest following and the vastest selection of free, mainstream music - something it has been offering for more than a year...