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...balance on the simplicity-complexity fulcrum is producing results elsewhere too--in increasingly complex software that yields increasingly intuitive user interfaces (think the iPhone); in algorithms that show how the movements of schooling fish mirror the behavior of investors, making stock-market predictions more reliable. Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize--winning physicist and a co-founder of SFI, likes to cite the case of physicist Karl Jansky, who founded the science of radio astronomy in 1931 when he was studying the hiss of electromagnetic static that bathes the Earth--part of the same hiss you hear...
...universities should not neglect the generation of young scientists and those who pursue “high-risk, high-reward” research, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). The project was led by a panel of university presidents and Nobel laureates, including Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech, whose institution collaborates with Harvard to fund research. The study also supports the findings of recent reports: conservative funding tends to result in conservative research, and the competition for federal funds is such that scientists spend more time applying...
...administrator who happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I am a fledgling writer who tries to be nice to colleagues and filled some vacancies in a decent school paper. I don’t think it would matter if I won a Nobel Prize or started believing in Zen Buddhism; my roommates would still make a mess and still make fun of me. I will be klutzy and cry easily, and will love my friends and family no matter how many Harvard diplomas I receive. I am glad that these are constants...
Last year, the medal was given to Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...Twenty-six years after his graduation, Minot won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of a liver treatment for anemia...