...MIT Sloan Class of 2013 Facebook group * XXXXXHannah Clark Steiman Cambridge, Massachusetts Joined about 8 months ago * * XXXXXXSohana Punithakumar MIT Sloan School of Management Joined over a year ago * * XXXXXXXX Ahmed Wali Aqeel Works at Game Ventures Joined about 8 months ago * * XXXXX Xi Wang Harvard Joined about 2 months ago A 2014 candidate * * XXXXXXX Vanessa William UPenn Joined about 12 months ago * * XXXXXXXShireen Taleghani YouTube Ads Specialist at YouTube Joined about 11 months ago * * XXXXXMichael Chen MIT Added by Nikita Guo about a month ago graduates in 2012 * * XXXXX Leah Fotis MIT Sloan School of Management Joined over a year ago . Graduates in 2014. * * XXXXX Kendall Herbst MIT Sloan School of Management Joined over a year ago * * XXXXX Leland Cheung City Councillor at City of Cambridge Joined over a year ago Class of 2011 grad * * XXXXX Ryan Choi MIT Added by Damian Lee about 2 months ago * * XXXXX Maxim Beletskiy MIT Joined over a year ago Graduated in 2011 * * XXXXXX Sharmeen Noor UVA Joined about 10 months ago * * XXXXXX Priyanka Ramamurthy Wellesley Joined over a year ago * * XXXXXX Dante Cassanego MIT Added by Nikita Guo about a month ago Graduated...
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...CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERVIEW Case Study (study title) You have been asked to participate in a research study conducted by (your name) from (your department) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). The purpose of the study (brief statement describing purpose of study) (If student research include the following: The results of this study will be included in (your name) Masters thesis). You were selected as a possible participant in this study because (state reason). You should read the information below, and ask questions about anything you do not understand, before deciding whether or not to participate. • This interview is voluntary. You have the right not to answer any question, and to stop the interview at any time or for any reason. We/I (indicate which) expect that the interview will take about (estimate time). • You will / will not (indicate which) be compensated for this interview. (Describe compensation if applicable) • Unless you give us permission to use your name, title, and / or quote you in any publications that may result from this research, the information you tell us will be confidential. • We/I (indicate which) would like to record this interview so that (we/I) can use it for reference while proceeding with this study. ((We/I) will not record this interview without your permission. If you do grant permission for this conversation to be recorded, you have the right to revoke recording permission and/or end the interview...
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...Mashell Chapeyama Ethics and social responsibility Topic: Ethics and hacking Year 2012 Level: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Key words: computer hacking, ethics Hacking In this discussion I will talk of hacking as it relates to computers and technology. The term hacking and the practice of hacking originated at Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT). In this regard, hacking dealt with exploration of equipment and infrastructure, for the love of exploration or for learning or showing one’s cleverness. The students and other intellectuals wanted to learn more about things; they wanted to find ways of solving some problems or challenges which they found in life. So they became more devoted to this practice of exploring things, especially in areas which they had a lot of experience and expertise. The hackers experimented with computers and they even experimented with building or other infrastructural components. May people agree that it is very difficult to come up with a concise definition of hacking. However from my reading the simplest interpretation of hacking is that it is the act of observing some weakness in systems and finding ways to overcome such problems or challenges. A computer hacker in this respect would mean a person who has skills in computers who want to identify some problems and weaknesses in the computer system and then devise solution to such problems, for the purpose of learning or just challenging the existing system. The...
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...Sloan was a savvy business man that cared about the well being of his employees as well as his customers.The name Alfred Sloan should be more recognized then Christopher Columbus in this country. We owe this man a lot more credit then he is given. Our factories would not be what they are today without him. Background ! Born in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 23, 1875. His Father was a partner in a wholesale tea, coffee, and cigar business, with a firm called Bennett-Sloan & Company. In 1885 he moved the business to New York City, on West Broadway and from the age of ten Alfred grew up in Brooklyn. His fatherʼs father was a school teacher, and his mothers father was in Methodist minister. He excelled as a student at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute where he completed the college-preparatory courses. He was the oldest of five children, one sister, Katharine, and three brothers, Clifford who worked in the advertising business; Harold who was a college professor; and Raymond being the youngest was a professor, writer, and expert in hospital administration. One thing that the Sloan children all had in common was that they had a capability for being dedicated to their own separate respective interests. The Sloan children saw how their father ran his business and I believe this is where they learned the inʼs and outʼs of what it takes to run a successful business. (Farber, D. (2002). Sloan rules. University of Chicago press0 !...
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...pleasant. What they have learned has profound implications for all managers. BY DONALD A. NORMAN THE LEADING QUESTION AT SOME POINT, every manager has had to tell someone to wait. We all have to wait sometimes. It’s a simple matter of timing and resources. Whenever two systems interact, one is invariably ready before the other. In the factory, this disparity can lead to stockpiles of goods or bottlenecks. When people are involved, it can give rise to inefficiency and anger. This is no good for customers or employees. But the psychological impact of waits can be managed, and studies in design show us how to do it. My introduction to design started with my studies of fundamental principles of interaction to enhance the use of technology.1 Now, as I teach and consult on the applications of these principles to business, I apply them to many aspects of customer experience. In places where waits are required, these principles can not only make waiting more pleasant but can also make it feel like not waiting at all. Sometimes inducing a wait can improve the customer experience. When waits are inevitable, the research shows, the goal should be to optimize the experience for both customers and employees, thereby enhancing customer satisfaction and reducing employee stress and turnover. What this research has revealed can help managers in many situations, even those not involving lines. SLOANREVIEW.MIT.EDU What can managers...
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...Beyond the Business Case: New Approaches to IT Investment As IT becomes more closely tied to business objectives, successful investment must consider two dimensions: technology scope and strategic objectives. Jeanne W. Ross and Cynthia M. Beath When senior managers at United Parcel Service (UPS) first decided more than 15 years ago that package tracking had become a competitive necessity in the package-delivery industry, they discovered that developing the capability was not as simple as writing or buying a package-tracking application. The company needed to develop networks, databases and processing capacity before it could even begin to offer tracking services.1 At about the same time, Delta Air Lines began focusing essentially all its information-technology spending on rebuilding its airport systems and infrastructure, in part to address Y2K concerns. But shortly after Jan. 1, 2000, in what the CIO described as a “land rush,” line managers submitted requests for IT investments that totaled almost three times what Delta could allocate. Each request presented a business case that promised significant positive returns on investment. But combined, they far exceeded the ability of the IT unit to deliver.2 Such experiences are not unusual. In the last 15 years, a tidal wave of ITenabled initiatives, from business-process reengineering to enterpriseresource planning, has elevated the importance of investing strategically in IT. Jeanne W. Ross is principal research scientist...
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...the 1990s, when companies such as IBM began to outsource not just manufacturing but also design activities. The trend reached its peak within the past decade, when even companies such as Boeing started outsourcing innovation activities. But what happens when companies become too dependent on outside suppliers and cede them too much control if they lack the same degree of understanding and awareness about how important product or service elements fit together and what’s necessary? Once management lets go of critical internal levers, how does it go about reestablishing them? COURTESY OF HYUNDAI MOTOR CO. in-house that have direct impacts on product performance. !Maintain control over activities that are highly interdependent with the technologies that...
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...FA L L 2 0 0 6 V O L . 4 8 N O. 1 Christopher G. Worley and Edward E. Lawler III Designing Organizations That Are Built to Change Please note that gray areas reflect artwork that has been intentionally removed. The substantive content of the article appears as originally published. REPRINT NUMBER 48107 IN CONTEXT Designing Organizations That Are Built to Change As the pace of globalization and social change quickens, executives are correctly calling for greater agilit y, flexibilit y and innovation from their companies. Largely ignored in these pleas, however, is the simple fact that organizations have been designed to seek sustainable competitive advantages and stability. Indeed, buried deep in the managerial psyche, and bolstered by decades of theory and practice, is the assumption that stability is not only desirable and effective but also attainable. In their classic book The Social Psychology of Organizations, Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn note, “One can define the core problem of any social system as reducing the variability and instability of human actions to uniform and dependable patterns.” The popularity of process improvement efforts, from total quality management to Six Sigma programs, provides ample evidence of the consuming desire for stability and predictability in today’s organizations. In fact, those are the very qualities rewarded by the financial markets. It is not surprising, then, that most large-scale change efforts fail to meet their...
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...Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab's hardware hackers (no one knows who). You don't touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it does, because you might crash the computer. The switch was labeled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words ‘magic' and ‘more magic'. The switch was in the ‘more magic' position. I called another hacker over to look at it. He had never seen the switch before either. Closer examination revealed that the switch had only one wire running to it! The other end of the wire did disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it's a basic fact of electricity that a switch can't do anything unless there are two wires connected to it. This switch had a wire connected on one side and no wire on its other side. It was clear that this switch was someone's idea of a silly joke. Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped it. The computer instantly crashed. Imagine our utter astonishment. We wrote it off as coincidence, but nevertheless restored the switch to the ‘more magic’ position before reviving the computer. A year later, I told this story to yet another hacker, David Moon as I recall. He clearly doubted my sanity, or suspected me of a supernatural belief...
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...Don McCullough Presentation Traditional bargaining – not the most productive use of everyone’s time * Both sides develop proposals and strategies they plan to implement to achieve their interests * Both sides overstate their opening position * Both commit early and publicly * Both sides have a chief spokesperson * Both dig in for a fight * Both sides attempt to use whatever leverage they have at their disposal to win * After days of caucusing they generally accept an agreement; both sides walk away viewing themselves as winners. Problems * Leave the table with issues or interest that were truly worth addressing * Both sides leave something on the table that they came with to begin with * All team members believe that it would’ve been different had they been able to talk * The side with the greater leverage and courage to gamble on that leverage gets the most Recognized need for change * Both sides felt there had to be a better way * Both sides began to train their leadership team and spokesperson on the art of bargaining – we wanted to get better at what we were doing * Both sides began to focus on real issues and less on building a laundry list of demands * Chief spokesperson became facilitators looking for ways to best represent the group’s interest; hoping this would lead to greater gains. * The more progressive negotiators were looking for radical change Interest based bargaining * Most of the material...
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...Derek Debenham IS 4410 November 7, 2012 Tech article 4 A lab at MIT has taken inspiration from the humble earthworm for a new technology that could have huge applications in business and society in general. They have created a robot called “Meshworm” that looks like a writhing earthworm. The meshworm has a very simple design that is based on the centuries old principle that different metals expand at different rates when heated. A coil of nickel-titanium wire surrounds the Meshworm’s internal workings like a slinky, and the robot can apply current to create heat and deform the coil in multiple body segments. This allows the “wormbot” to move just like an earthworm. The meshworm can only travel a few millimeters per second but nothing seems to be able to slow it down. Researchers have bashed t with hammers, bent it, kicked it, and even doused it with water, all to no avail. Although it seems like a very small invention, the meshworm has caught the attention of everyone from Johns Hopkins to DARPA. DARPA is the US military’s advanced research arm, and it has expressed an interest in meshworm for reconnaissance and surveillance. The durable nickel-titanium design appeals to the military, and because it is so small it could go unnoticed while it wiggles through keyholes or lays invisible in any crack or crevasse. The Meshworm could have a huge impact on the medical industry. Medical engineers are already imagining the tenacious little robot navigating intestinal...
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...Smartix Case HBS Smartix 1. Imagine that you are Vivek Khuller. Should you accept the offer from MSG? I don’t believe that I would take the offer from MSG. Here’s the problem with not taking the deal: Accel is relying on the MSG deal far greater than anticipated, and the deal with Accel has a high probability of falling through once it is discovered MSG may not be participating in the way Accel is anticipating. The other issue at hand is that without the Accel deal, Smartix is nearly out of time and the funds required to continue aggressively pursuing the project. An alternative for Smartix in this situation is to scale it back and seek out a slightly smaller deal. They have the capacity to do so and it seems that they were aiming rather ambitiously with MSG. If they wanted to reassess their end game and dial it down some, they have the opportunity to connect with a slightly smaller venue or company and they have a short amount of time to do so. Another alternative to accepting the MSG deal is for the founders to gain outside employment in an effort to sustain themselves while they regroup Smartix to succeed under their terms. They all know that the last thing they want to do after all their hard work is become MSG employees. In the end, don’t accept a subpar deal if you know your venture is worth more. 2. Should Vivek have tried to start this venture without co-founders? Could he have been a solo founder? While not doubting his competence or his ability to...
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..."The Beauty and Joy of Computing: Computer Science for Everyone", Constructionism 2012, Athens. About the development of CS 10, Berkeley's new CS breadth course for non-majors. Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs matters In 2011, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT, the Boston Globe made a list of the most important MIT innovations, and they asked me to explain the importance of SICP. This is what I sent them. "Bringing 'No Ceiling' to Scratch: Can One Language Serve Kids and Computer Scientists?" (with Jens Mönig, a talk at the Constructionism 2010 conference in Paris). Scratch is the brilliant grandchild of Logo, from the MIT Media Lab, that uses drag-and-drop visual programming to achieve, truly at last, the "no threshold" half of Logo's famous promise, combined with a half-million-strong social network of kid programmers sharing projects and working collaboratively. But Scratch deliberately drops the "no ceiling" part. How hard would it be to do both at once? Not hard at all, we think, if we remember Lisp's core idea of procedure as data. BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks) is an experimental implementation of this goal. "Speech at UCB CS Graduation, 2005"At Berkeley every department has its own graduation ceremony. At the one for the Computer Science majors in the College of Letters and Science, there are a bunch of student speakers, then a faculty speaker, and then a famous-outsider speaker. This year I gave the faculty speech, about the sorry state...
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...you are offering. For the Tech Has Talent event, we expect to have over 500 attendees and we have 6 weeks to plan, recruit, train, execute, and appreciate our volunteers. At 6 weeks from the event, I have a Volunteer Coordinator/Supervisor on my committee, which is comprised of Greenville Tech students and staff. I expect my volunteer coordinator to be organized, have this event executed efficiently, make sure volunteers are recognized, and have problems dealt with swiftly, but delicately. The following is our volunteer plan closer to the event. Since we are 6 weeks out, we have the GTC Computer Science department volunteering to take care of signs, graphics and logos. GTC’s Culinary Institute of the Carolinas is handling food and beverages the day of the event. The Automotive Technology department is supplying golf cart drivers to transport guests with disabilities to and from the parking area. Each department participating will have an event T-shirt with their respective departments acknowledged and students showcasing their talents have been reviewed and approved for their station. We have established a sign-up area for students to volunteer in the library, student center, McAlister Square, computer labs across campus, department common areas, and a sign-up table in each department, once a week, for the next 5 weeks. I encouraged campus associations, such as Phi Theta Kappa and the Paralegal Association, to volunteer so that they may also represent their unique group...
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...Nicolas Negroponte – Contributions to HCI and a Bid to “Save the World” In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte addressed the World Economic Forum with a computing idea to “save the world”. (1) Less than three years later, the One Laptop Per Child initiative (OLPC) launched into distribution with unprecedented cooperation of the United Nations, corporate funders, and governments organizations. Though it is early to review the success of Negroponte’s OLPC initiative, it provides us with an opportunity to explore the implications for rethinking the roles and responsibilities of individual researchers as key ethical players in the equitable design and distribution of technology. With corporations seeking new consumers to distribute technology and bridge the rapidly shrinking digital divide, it’s valuable to ask these questions while there is still time for researchers to contribute their leadership, vision, historical perspective, and critical thinking to ethically inform and guide this process. This paper will review Negroponte’s contributions to HCI and explore linkages to historical figures of the field. In addition, this paper aims to critically review Negroponte’s influence as an advocate for universal usability and the OLPC project. Architecture Machine Group In 1967 Negroponte founded the Architecture Machine Group at MIT. Researchers in the group invented new concepts and developed new approaches to human-computer interaction. Inspired, in part, by Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad...
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