This past July, for the third summer in a row, scores of soon-to-be high school seniors traveled to MIT's Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus - just across the Charles River from Boston - to participate in one of eight demanding, project-based engineering courses, including two where students ...
“Fun facts” about your background that you just didn’t have room for elsewhere: Going to baseball games every Sunday during the summer is a nice tradition, but that’s not the kind of thing MIT is looking for here. Details that aren’t relevant to understanding your candidacy for MIT...
"summer", "tennis", "touch", "touched", "tradition", "twins", "visits", "wages", "waves", "willing", "younger", "exercised", "enabled", "greeks", "purely", "seeds", "sixteen", "softly", "cradle", "80's", "americas", "arose", "bigger", "boyfriend", "breath", "committe...
and it comes as no surprise that it’s also one of the most selective schools in the world. If you’re set on majoring in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computation and Cognition, or one of the other highly specialized programs that MIT offers, it’s important to let admissions officers...
Last summer, the Guardian reported that Quadrature Capital held tens of millions of dollars in investments in dozens of fossil-fuel companies, including ConocoPhillips and Cheniere Energy. In response to a question about the potential for privately funded foundations to steer research findings in...
2021, while South Carolina is currently running a pilot program at Clemson University. The state actually started work on its system back in May 2020—but legislatorsbarred the public health departmentfrom any digital contact tracing work last summer due to privacy concerns, holding back d...
hah…alright I concede! Of course I was (am?) one of those cop out 6-2ers, which makes me something of a not-a-real computer scientist and not-a-real hardware engineer. I tool on fpgas now….go figure. for the record, I liked 6.099 when I took it. Although the original version...
In the summer of 2021, Pandai was accepted to the Y Combinator (YC) program. For those who are not familiar with the global startup scene, getting into YC is akin to getting into an Ivy League university for your undergraduate studies. It is selective and prestigious. ...
Kraft then created jCentral and xCentral—custom search engines for IBM’s programmers. They search and return Java and XML programs, respectively—the software behind many Web applications— and nothing else. This allows the company’s programmers (and non-IBMers, too) to much more efficiently...
More than 150 million times a day, users turn to Google, the four-year-old search engine developed by a pair of Stanford University graduate students. Sergey Brin and Larry Page (p.84), PhD candidates in computer science, often found themselves stymied when hunting for data. “Innovation in...