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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...
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