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Apparently, some of our peers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a deal with the digital devil. In exchange for a free Windows Mobile “smartphone,” about 100 MIT students have agreed to allow researchers at the Media Lab to track their every digital move, including phone calls, e-mails, and text messages. The scientists at the Media Lab are not working for the students’ families, significant others, or the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, all of this data is being used to explore a new field known as collective intelligence...
...making those decisions, Ennis wrote, each department will be “guided by the school’s teaching and research mission,” as well as the priorities identified by the strategic planning report released in late November, concluding the first phase of a process launched last fall...
...Marc W. Kirschner, head of the systems biology department, hiring junior faculty members is crucial to sustaining the school’s educational and research priorities...
...Ennis noted that the budget cuts do not apply to spending supported by research grants from federal or private sources, which total about 28 percent of the Medical School’s $798 million budget for fiscal year 2007. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Brian M. Weller ’09, new inductee and Applied Mathematics concentrator who has done extensive research in economics, had a similar reaction...