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...ambitious project, but the charismatic Negroponte has a persuasive pitch and a knack for fund raising. With the support of the U.N., his so-called $100 laptop quickly found backing from, among others, Google, Red Hat, Advanced Micro Devices and Nortel. His team is still making prototypes, but a finished motherboard was delivered in April. A wind-up crank has been replaced by a new foot pedal to supply power in areas lacking electricity...
...Peter came here kind of as an athlete [and] was actually recruited by the Harvard basketball team,” Murphy said. “He decided to play football as a recruit before he got here, and he was kind of a project. The project’s starting to pay dividends—he could be a good player...
...really useful to do both at once. It got a little hectic juggling rehearsal and writing at one point, but I feel both writing a thesis and directing a play have similar challenges, and the way to make both work is to figure out what the project is at its core and to be able to summarize that in one sentence. It has to pass the elevator test. You get into an elevator and someone asks, “So what’s this thesis about?” Or “So what’s this...
...said. HRCSA cultural co-chair Jennifer Ding ’10 said that she and Cheuk were pleased with the outcome of the event. “Even though it was a lot of hard work, it turned out to be a very successful and fruitful project. And Edmond and I are looking to do similar events where students learn from professors outside of class...
...It’s a scenario that’s not terribly unlikely, assuming that research informally known as the “personal genome project” succeeds, which it appears well on track to do. The project is an offshoot of the Human Genome Project (HGP), a massive effort to determine the sequence of the human genome, that is, the 3 billion base pairs of DNA in human cells. The result of that effort was a consensus of many individuals’ genomes, and because the genome is nearly-identical among all humans, it was enormously useful...