Machinery and Machining - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2018
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companies. And indeed, this SDR theory-turned-to-code has shown the ability to aid in natural language processing, with one of Numenta’s partners, Cortical.io, using it to help machines read lengthy, complex... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

04 Sep 2019
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A Measured Approach

machine learning model, which enabled the organization to locate between 50 and 200 percent more out-of-school children for no additional cost. “That’s the sort of success case that gets us really excited,... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have cancer. Doctors ran tests View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) is seeing things. Standing at the edge of Beira Lake, an algae-choked body of water in the heart of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, he envisions people and restaurants—like New York’s South Street Seaport, he... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

06 Dec 2021
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Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS

teach more digital content to our students. That means more courses on statistics, data analytics, machine learning, and fairness and ethics in AI. Data science is the new... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 May 2017
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Going the Distance

12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

machines became more efficient. Then we moved, starting around 1970 to the area of the head—the IQ. And we used to think, incorrectly, that the smartest person made the best leader, which we know now is not... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

about the recent slump but also about the fascinating workings of the star-maker machinery behind the music that moves America. Strauss Zelnick, president and CEO of BMG Entertainment North America, a... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to data science View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff

Photographed by Luciano Munhoz From her São Paulo office, Claudia Sender (MBA 2002) has a clear view of the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge, a spectacular 450-foot-tall structure of yellow steel cables laid over an X-shaped support tower that spans the Pinheiros River... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

every field. How do you think it could shape the future of the School? —Sangu Delle (MBA 2016) Digital transformation will be critical to the future of the School, and AI, machine learning, View Details

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

also brought about change. In 1874, Dun placed an order with E. Remington and Sons for 100 of the newfangled machines at a cost of $55 each, assuring the future of the young, struggling company. After that,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977

risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

healthcare system. "Since we opened our factory on April 1, we have produced 250,000 masks and 15,000 gowns with redeployed labor who are folding the masks and using sewing View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

of the research problem, at this point. I’m the subject and I’m the researcher. I’m like a perpetual-motion machine of happiness research.” In this conversation with the Bulletin, Professor Brooks talks... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

themes? Eric: The first theme is mechanization. If you were a young person in the early Republic in America and you could build a machine that did what had been traditionally done by hand, you were in the... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

[laughing] business school students today, you got to teach a course on stamina because ... DM: [laughs] JI: ... because change, you know, now it looks obvious, right? You say, duh. You know? Global warming's existential. But unless you put yourself in a time View Details

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