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...There are several varieties of this kind of innovation, and they go by different technical names. MIT professor Eric von Hippel calls one "end-user innovation," in which consumers actively modify a product to adapt it to their needs. In its short life, Twitter has been a hothouse of end-user innovation: the hashtag; searching; its 11,000 third-party applications; all those creative new uses of Twitter - some of them banal, some of them spam and some of them sublime. Think about the community invention of the @ reply. It took a service that was essentially a series of isolated...
...graduate schools. The tuition assistance provided by Harvard will be matched by the federal government. ROTC has not been welcome at Harvard since 1969, when it was expelled from campus following student demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Currently, Harvard students who participate in ROTC train at MIT. Unlike last year, when Faust criticized the military’s policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell”—which bars openly gay people from service and has been cited in recent years as the reason ROTC remains off campus?...
Honorary doctor of science degrees will also be given to AIDS researcher Anthony S. Fauci, anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ’68, and MIT Bioengineering Professor Robert Langer...
...Randall has also changed the popular conception of a physicist. Before coming to Harvard in 2001, Randall had already become the first tenured woman in the Princeton physics department and the first tenured female physics theorist at MIT...
...marry. Another area in which homosexuals are continually denied rights is the United States army. This year, there was a great amount of attention paid to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program. Though we supported the University making it easier for ROTC students to cross-register at MIT, allowing military science courses to appear on transcripts, and improving the financial aid policy so that ROTC grants do not preclude students from receiving Harvard funds, we remained firmly opposed to the national “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” program...