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...Vista makes sense, more or less. Much of the challenge of creating a good operating system is design, not technology. Which means figuring out a visually logical way for users to get at all their information easily. Vista is creeping in that direction, with improved search functions and nicely built-in music and photo organizers - you can actually "tag" photos with keywords, which is very handy. Useful widgets like clocks and photo albums cluster happily at the edge of the screen like attentive waiters, happy to serve...
...seeking a pleasing yap and wag at the push of a button. Working with teams of high school students, she tricks out toy robots - she calls them "feral robot dogs" - with all-terrain wheels and pollution sensors in their noses and sends them into landfills and industrial areas to search for toxins. These are robots with a social conscience. "Suddenly the students, who a few weeks earlier were tentative about taking apart these products, are in a position to reimagine our environmental and technical future," says Jeremijenko...
...individuals also said they expect Provost Steven E. Hyman to remain on the search committee’s list of candidates until the end, even though they both said that Hyman’s placement on the list is a courtesy extended in recognition of his half-decade as the University’s number-two administrator—not necessarily an indication of serious consideration...
...School Dean Elena Kagan’s candidacy may hinge upon her ability to convince search committee members that her leadership style is dramatically different from that of Lawrence H. Summers. Kagan has been praised for her consensus-building successes at the Law School, most notably the unanimous approval of the school’s curricular overhaul this past fall. But she was appointed to her present post by Summers, who appeared to retain the support of many Law School faculty members through the final days of his presidency...
...search committee is comprised of the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation—the University's top governing body—as well as three members of the less powerful Board of Overseers. Two Corporation fellows—Robert E. Rubin '60 and James F. Rothenberg '68—did not appear to be in attendance at yesterday's meeting...