Redefining the role of academic research
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Charles M. Vest, who will be stepping down next month as the president of MIT, personifies his school's famed ''engineering mentality.&quot; Simply put, this is the inclination to find a problem and fix it.
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Ph.D. theses around the country increasingly have a surprising theme: sex tech.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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Researchers talk to college students about growing up with attention problems.
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By Padilla, Cynthia  Finding good sites for international information is a challenge for many types of online research. In an increasingly global environment, the Web is not just for those with English as their mother tongue, nor is Google the only search engine.
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Google Scholar is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports.
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How neuroscience is transforming the legal system.
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Unearthing values in the post-bubble wreckage.
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Some medical researchers are primarily interested in the three P&#39;s of publication, patents and professorships, while others focus on policies, practice and people.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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Microsoft Research's eScience group is helping scientific researchers use database and online sharing tools in ways they might not have imagined, and sharing those experiences with Microsoft product groups that can tweak their software for easier use by the scientific community.
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Students and professors from different disciplines are collaborating in the study of the environmental ramifications of production and consumption.
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Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish â on the Web, at least â free.
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically "...newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies".. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural; especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization. read more
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In the latest release of its customized search engines, the groups of people to be benefited are Scholars and Scientists. The engine is called Google Scholar and as usual with Google, it is in beta.
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Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web.