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The Context: Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth
… This is the tenth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background … reorganization. Its organisms are built to be biological machines, with DNA and proteins standing in for circuit …
Yesterday's News
… Bonaparte, A.B. 1899, declines an invitation to ascend the Albanian throne. “Sometimes Harvard indifference is … too far,” comment Bulletin editors. 1927 At a Harvard Club of Boston colloquium titled “What is the Sub-Freshman … and is about to be extended to laundry and vending machines in all undergraduate dorms and Houses. … From the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Off the Shelf
… by Daniel Altman '96, Ph.D. '00 (Public Affairs, $26.95). "The neoconomists' revolution has one goal: to increase the … for the Economist and the New York Times. The chosen path of these economists and the Bush administration "could … real revolution in which the nation's tax-paying laborers rise up against a class of wealthy free-riders." Copies in …
Issue: September-October 2004
Bruce Jenkins
… As an undergraduate working for the New York University cinema studies department, Bruce … the film projector. "I love it--it's the last vestige of the machine age in contemporary use," he says. "A decade … will be in a film archive or museum." As the new curator of the Harvard Film Archive, succeeding its founder, Vlada …
As Schoenhof’s Shutters, a Look at the Square’s Independent Bookstores
… 25, Harvard Square will bid a final farewell to Schoenhof’s Foreign Books. The 150-year-old bookstore currently lives on Mount Auburn … country and in Harvard Square, Mayersohn admits that the rise of online retailers like Amazon has posed a serious …
Brevia
… Chao Center Celebration Harvesting one of the fruits of its capital campaign the day before unveiling … Americans in College history. Stanford’s yield continued to rise sharply, reaching nearly 77 percent, as did Yale’s , …
Issue: July-August 2014
Doug Elmendorf and Karen Dynan: How Much Can the Federal Budget and the Deficit Continue to Grow?
… Even before the coronavirus shifted the U.S. economy into low gear , … massive stimulus in response, federal debt as a percentage of GDP was as high as it had been since the years following … boomers have started to retire, and healthcare costs have risen faster than our economic growth for many years. And …
New England: "More than Changing Leaves and Blizzards"
… Okay, yeah. There are changing leaves in late fall, blizzards in winter, … two things we don’t like, it’s people who are intolerant of other peoples’ cultures, and the Dutch (Austin Powers, … for our purposes here we’re excluding New Yorkers in favor of the true Patriots—they really need a pick-me-up after …
The Middle Class on the Precipice
… During the past generation, the American middle-class family that … higher costs and increased risks, the old financial rules of credit have been rewritten by powerful corporate … in income has an overlooked side effect: family risk has risen as well. Today’s families have budgeted to the limits …
Issue: January-February 2006
Foreseeing Self-Harm
… Psychology professor Matthew Nock has spent his career studying self-harm, but he … people kill themselves. Suicide is the tenth highest cause of death in the United States, and the rate remained roughly …
Issue: March-April 2017
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
… she was struck and killed by a self-driving car. Although there was a human operator behind the wheel, an autonomous … between people and AI technologies, raises a host of ethical and proto-legal questions. What moral obligations … applications. Consider a prosaic-seeming social change: machines are already being given the power to make …
Issue: January-February 2019
Bill Gates, Inside the Gates
… Walter Isaacson ’74, a member of the Board of Overseers and biographer of Apple’s Steve Jobs … Center. The Aiken Lab housed one of Gates’s favorite machines: a PDP-10 from Digital Equipment Co. It had been …
Lessons in Leadership
… Harvard University, or even America, when he came across the website for the International Summer School on … Harvard collaborative that aims to develop a new generation of post-Soviet leaders in the Republic of Georgia. But he instantly knew the program was for him. …
Down-under Dominator
… Seventy-eight feet away at the other end of the tennis court, she doesn’t seem … regular season ranked seventeenth in the country (having risen as high as ninth, the best in program history) and …
Issue: July-August 2006
Neural-Network Pioneer Yann LeCun on AI and Physics
… The machine-learning revolution has touched every area of … consequences of his work, even as public scrutiny of AI rises. A Loeb lecture that delves into morality would be …