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Alexander D. Wissner-Gross, a fellow at the University’s Center for Environment, found himself in the middle of an imbroglio this weekend when his study on the environmental impact of computing was used in an article by the Sunday Times—the British paper—to claim that two Google searches generate as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea.Wissner-Gross later denied that this claim was included in his study, which he said was about web-usage in general, not Google in particular.Google is combating the Sunday Times?...
Last spring, Harvard Physics graduate student Alexander D. Wissner-Gross noticed something about the way the course material was structured in a Physics course for which he was a Teaching Fellow. While looking for supplementary readings for his students in Physics 15a, “Introductory Mechanics and Relativity,” Wissner-Gross noticed that the way information was connected by links on Wikipedia was similar to the way Physics 15a was taught. As a teaching fellow, Wissner-Gross thought to capitalize on this similarity, and created a new search process to help students quickly and efficiently organize physics...
...banner of equality. The ubiquitous computer, for example, often seems incapable of recognizing hyphens. Says a Citibank spokesman: "This is not an insidious attack on our part. It's a program problem." Bureaucracies would rather set aside the mark altogether. In Bayside, N.Y., Dana Wissner- Levy, a graduate student at Hofstra University, had to take her battle to the school president before the registrar's office agreed to accept her hyphen...
...killed a messenger carrying $4,960 (along with more than $35,000 in non-negotiable checks) from the Reader's Digest offices near Pleasantville, N.Y. Two months later the killers were arrested. Tried and convicted were Calman Cooper, a paroled bandit, Harry Stein, a sullen thug, and Nathan Wissner, a habitual criminal. They were sentenced to die the week of Feb. 11, 1951-but justice was not to come so quickly...
Last week, after three U.S. Supreme Court Justices and New York's Acting Governor George B. DeLuca had rejected in turn their final, desperate pleas, the book was finally closed on Cooper, 47, Stein, 57, and Wissner, 43. Four years, four months and 28 days after they went to the death house, the Reader's Digest Killers went to the electric chair at Sing Sing...
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