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Margaret L. Newhouse, assistant director forPh.D Careers at OCS, says that "physicists have aset of skills that the non-academic world values."New house says that this is the first year OCS hashad formal business recruiting of Ph.Ds bycompanies such as McKinsey, Monitor and Banker'sTrust...
Furthermore, the system is not maintained by the Harvard police but by the Office of Physical Resources. Although the Harvard police monitor the system for problems such as a door being held open for too long or the use of a card reported loss, the system itself and the data it collects are not under its control...
...have ever gone before. Many of the derivatives that have raised concern are those based on untested mathematical formulas developed by so- called quants, short for quantitative analysts, who are rapidly gaining ascendancy in the trading rooms of banks and securities firms. But their computerized risk-assessment models, which monitor global transactions on a moment-to-moment basis and tell the quants when to buy or sell to balance vast portfolios, are based on historical patterns that cannot foresee all the worldwide selling pressures that could build up in a crisis...
...quants the number-crunching capacity they needed to bring forth their brainchildren. Now Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley each spend anywhere from $800 million to $1.2 billion a year to hone their derivatives operations. The money goes for the computers and software it takes to design and monitor derivatives contracts, and for the salaries of the quants who pilot the equipment...
...messages waiting to bedelivered-for a specific undergraduate's name,identify when and to whom that student has sentmail, not the size of the mail message andrecognize the message's delivery status. But asmessage delivery speed increases, messages willspend less time in the queue, making it moredifficult to monitor, them...