Word: wiesner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nude, Naked, Stripped: painting, sculpture and photography, Hayden Gallery, Wiesner Building, MIT, Dec. 13 through...
Nude, Naked, Stripped: public preview and reception, Hayden Gallery, Wiesner Building, MIT, Friday...
...before the disastrous Bay of Pigs began. He had asked me to listen to the debate among his science and budget advisers. It was not a happy discussion. His space men wanted to go, but his budget man, David Elliott Bell, cautioned about spending $40 billion. Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner was not certain we could beat the Soviets to the moon even in ten years. I can still see Kennedy's profile as he put his feet on the edge of the Cabinet table and tilted back, brow deeply furrowed, fingers nervously tapping his bared teeth. His face...
...Army argues that such lessons are best learned well in advance of real-life combat situations. It's a fantastic tool for training " says Lieut. Colonel Robert Turner, a nuclear-weapons specialist at the Pentagon. Others are not so sure. Jerome Wiesner, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and sometime presidential science adviser, suggests that no amount of computer training will enable U.S. generals to prevent Europe from being turned into a big lake" if there is a nuclear war on that continent. One young computer buff who recently used Janus found the experience extremely unsettling...
...There is a Nobel Prize for the person who figures out how the viruses select their prey," says Immunologist Paul Wiesner at the Centers for Disease Control, and "a second prize for the person who can figure out the latency of the virus: Just how does it select that perfect hiding place where it can stay for years without being destroyed by the immunological system?" Atlanta Virologist Andre Nahmias, one of the two scientists who discovered Type 2 in the late 1960s, predicts that it will be another seven to ten years before researchers find a way to prevent recurrent...