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...they may soon dominate the world—the soccer world, that is. Since last spring, the Cambridge Robotic Futbol Club (CRFC) has been creating a team of robots that can play soccer without any human involvement for 20 minutes. The club, which consists of 35 Harvard and MIT undergraduate robot enthusiasts, hopes to qualify for the international showdown of simulated soccer players: the RoboCup World Cup. “The ultimate goal of RoboCup is to create a team of robots that can beat the World Cup champions by 2050,” says club Co-President Jeffrey...
...Nancy Hopkins [the MIT professor whose outrage over Summers’s women in science comments triggered the initial uproar last year] was referred to in a recent article as a “harpie...
...example of just how misguided faculty initiatives can get was the 2002 petition circulated by a group of Harvard and MIT faculty, students, and other affiliates, urging divestment from Israel and from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel. This call for divestment was part of a much broader political initiative by the Arab League, which has since the 1940s declared a boycott of “Jewish products and manufactured goods,” ordering all Arab “institutions, organizations, merchants, commission agents and individuals...to refuse to deal in, distribute, or consume Zionist products or manufactured...
...accustomed to criticism. “I have so many scars I look like Jesus in the Mel Gibson film,” he said. While Harvard is not home to any of Horowitz’s 101 “most dangerous,” Cambridge is. MIT linguist Noam Chomsky made the list.The profiles are a varied lot, but most of the professors work in either the humanities or social sciences. Columbia University, Horowitz’s alma mater, was the home of the single greatest share of “most dangerous” professors?...
...returns to Cambridge after a six-year stint at MIT, from 1995 to 2001. Her move from Cambridge to Stanford in 2001 was cited by The New York Times that year as a sign of the MIT economic department’s declining stature...