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Starting next semester, students could find the size of their e-mail storage space multiplied by a factor of nearly twenty, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) considers launching a pilot program to outsource undergraduates’ e-mail to an external provider. Following this fall’s successful launch of Google mail accounts for new students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), FAS Information Technology (IT) has begun exploring the possibility of a similar pilot program for students in the College. As with the GSD system, the domain name of students’ e-mail...
...Boston, and the Boston Harbor, including such landmarks as Memorial Hall, MIT, and the Massachusetts State House. Most of the flight went smoothly—until the helicopter began to round Boston’s skyscrapers. “The buildings act like a mountain range,” pilot Philip Greenspun explained as the helicopter circled the John Hancock Tower, “so it’s natural to experience some turbulence.” Since he obtained his pilot’s licence in 2001, Greenspun—a computer science affiliate at MIT—said...
...students are superlative, and my colleagues have been unflaggingly supportive.” In its end-of-year report for 2007, Harvard’s Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity outlined changes geared towards junior faculty. Among the changes were “pilot programs aimed at addressing faculty development and diversity issues” and the expansion of child care for faculty members...
...When he was21 and afighter pilot in the Marine Corps during World War II, Jefferson DeBlanc Sr. protected his fellow aces by shooting down five Japanese warplanes during a mission over the Solomon Islands--even though his own plane was nearly out of gas and he knew he could not make it back to base. He swam eight miles to an island, where one indigenous tribe traded him to another--which helped ferry him to safety--for a 10-lb. sack of rice. DeBlanc was awarded the Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart and other decorations...
...energy needed to light a large Christmas tree. That solar power drives four electric engines, and loads four lithium batteries - a quarter of the aircraft's total weight of 3,300 lbs. (1,500 kg) - which allow the plane to continue flying through the night. Project director and co-pilot André Borschberg says that while labs around the world are developing lighter and more effective batteries, those currently available impose severe limits on the plane's weight. "With twice the battery capacity, we'd have a different plane," he says. And perhaps a more comfortable...