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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

An academic grant worth the cost of an aircraft carrier?

What you say if you got a $1.5 BILLION grant?  Samuel Ting (Nobel Prize laureate, 1974, MIT professor) got precisely this amount over 10 years to put a new experimental device in space. The device was meant to detect anti-matter. Although intriguing,…

Book Review – Alone Together – By Sherry Turkle – NYTimes.com and other reviews

Sherry Turkle Image via Wikipedia Sherry Turkle’s latest book on identity shifts in the Internet age takes a more pessimistic view on the role of technology in re-shaping our daily lives… In Turkle’s latest book, “Alone Together,” this optimism is long gone.…