Machinery and Machining - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

occurs when an algorithm produces results that are systemically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning process. ( + ) Code Switch The ability and propensity to adapt across shifting... View Details

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

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

"We were selling seven to eight million cubic feet per day and I was responsible for it. I thought we should take a better interest in it," says Thomas. The problem was that although he was in charge of the View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

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

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 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

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

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

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

in the areas of smart hardware and machine intelligence applications. Prior to Ubiquity, Sunil spent 6 years as a VC with Bessemer Venture Partners where he was part of investments in Auth0, Defense.Net... View Details

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

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

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that are conducted during this phase of development. The course takes the perspective that a startup is an experimentation machine and modern AI tools serve as an accelerant to more efficient View Details

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