CEO of Ford Motor Co. who wasn’t a member of the Ford family. Died July 10 of complications from a stroke. Amar Bose, 83. An engineer who taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than four decades, he was best known as the billionaire founder of Bose Corp., an audio technology company specializing in speakers and head

d by many to be part of the culture of the humanities, closely akin to philosophy and linguistics.. In the universities of United States, for example the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an academic degree of Ph.D. in mathematics is seen by most faculty as an indication of the intellectual equipment required for a life of scientific

r than practical tests. Could a computer hold a conversation with me and persuade me it is intelligent? Meet Eliza. Invented by Joseph Weizenbaum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and named after George Bernard Shaw’s character in Pygmalion, Eliza runs an algorithm pretending to be a psychiatrist offering a sympathetic ear to

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area where the fields merge. He is the current President of the Rhode Island School of Design. Maeda was originally a software engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when he became fascinated with the work of Paul Rand and Muriel Cooper. Cooper was a director of MIT’s Visual Language Workshop. After completing hi

empt of his to show how machines, even simple ones, might seduce us with both brains and looks. The effect of a giant tinkertoy pile sitting there at The Massachusets Institute of Technology had to make you giggle, even as your mind boggled at the fact that this heap of sticks, strings and dials was beating you again and again ata child’s

d a B.A. in Biology and a B.A. in Chemistry at Minnesota State University (Moorhead), and a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry and Molecular Structure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Isaac’s discoveries led to several publications in top journals, including Science and Cell, and were selected by Science as one of 14 CONTRO

ersity in New York, received his master's degree in taxation from St. John’s University, and has attended advanced finance and real estate courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University. He serves as a Trustee for the Green Family Foundation, is Chairman of the University of Miami Department of Pediatrics Chil

explain our ideas to a broad audience." DARON ACEMOGLIU 1s the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, awarded every two years to the best economist in the United States under the age of fort

of the Year Award" to noted mathematician Professor Dr. Jonathan David Farley. Farley is currently a visiting professor of applied math• emetics at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. He graduated aumma cum laude from Harvard College with straight A's in mathematics and later earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Oxford University.

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of the Year Award* to noted mathematician Professor Dr. Jonathan David Farley. Farley is currently a visiting professor of applied math- ematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with straight Al in mathematics and later earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Oxford University.