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Harvard's two nominees for this year's Carnegie fellowships were not considered during the national selection process because the Office of Career Services (OCS) did not submit the applications on time, Director of OCS William Wright-Swadel said in an interview yesterday...
Though the application deadline was in January, the nominees were not aware of the error until one of them called the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace this week and was informed that Harvard's applicants had not been considered, according to Wright-Swadel...
...fellowships officers thought the applications were due at the Washington-based foundation on March 15, according to Wright-Swadel. In fact, the applications were due on January...
...human mistake; we were confused about the date," Wright-Swadel said...
...ROBERT WRIGHT is accustomed to thinking of the human mind as an intricate machine. He has long been fascinated with evolutionary psychology--a field that views the brain as a mechanism built by the genes and shaped by natural selection--and has written extensively about it, both in his 1994 book, The Moral Animal, and in a TIME cover story last August, "Twentieth Century Blues." In this week's cover story, contributor Wright examines the philosophical questions raised by "artificial intelligences" such as Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer that nearly defeated the human world champion, Garry Kasparov. In addition...