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...earlier version of the Nov. 12 FM article "Revenge of the Nerds" incorrectly referred to Seth Neel as a junior at MIT. In fact, he is a junior in high school...
According to Winston H. Luo ’12, one of the tournament’s directors, the goal is for the participants to have fun, but the actual problems, which are written by Harvard and MIT students, are serious business...
...don’t expect to see a crowd of Jimmy Neutrons. In reality, according to Arvind Thiagarajan, MIT freshman and “Problem Czar” (the title reflects the monstrous task of compiling and editing all the problems), there’s more to these kids than just numbers...
...China's biggest cities will have all-electric bus fleets within five years. "China is eventually going to dominate the industry for electric vehicles," Tam says, "in part because the central government has both the vision and the financial wherewithal to make that happen." Tam, a graduate of MIT and the University of California, Berkeley, says he does deals in Beijing rather than Silicon Valley these days "because I believe this is where these new industries will really take shape. China's got the energy, the drive and the market to do it." Isn't that the sort of thing...
...years ago, I interviewed Zhang Xin, a young man from a deeply poor agricultural province in central China. His parents were wheat farmers and lived in a tiny one-room house next to the fields. He had graduated from Tsinghua University - China's MIT - and gotten a job as a software engineer at Huawei, the Cisco of China. His success, Zhang told me one day, had changed his family forever. None of his descendants would "ever work in the wheat fields again. Not my children. Not their children. That life is over." (And neither would his parents. They moved...