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Jerrold M. Grochow, the head of information services and technology at MIT, said that the plan has not been dropped completely because the city is experimenting with MIT-developed wireless technology known as Roofnet...
Grochow said that Roofnet, which is now commercially available, is “the way to go” for metropolitan wireless, and that MIT is still committed to working with Cambridge to help the city build a wireless network...
Hart said that while a city-wide network is not yet in place, there is currently a small network at Newtowne Court near Washington Street that relies on MIT-developed technology. There are also installations in all public meeting buildings, like City Hall and the libraries...
...gift, which was first reported in The New York Times, is tied for the largest ever given to Harvard: in 2005, Eli and Edythe Broad donated $100 million gift for genetic research at the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute...
...When MIT professor and meteorologist Edward Lorenz realized in 1961 that long-term weather-forecasting was all but impossible, the discovery chagrined weathermen. But his underlying idea--that even the most minute aberrations could have vast repercussions on larger systems--gave birth to the modern field of chaos theory. He captured the public's imagination with the elegant concept in a 1972 paper titled "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Though Lorenz initially used a seagull as his example, he settled on the more poetic creature, giving rise...