MIT prof quits to support colleague
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A prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has resigned to protest the university's treatment of a colleague who claims he was denied tenure because he is black, school officials said.
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The first woman to lead the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge is stepping down as director of one of the nation's leading biological research centers to return full time to her research.
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Â·  Political scientist loses bid after four to three vote Â·  Rancour lives on in Jewish and academic worlds
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Kathleen Poe , who is graduating from MIT's Sloan School of Management in June, had the unexpected luxury of three job offers this winter -- more than six months before she plans to start working.
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By Jewel Gopwani, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 1--More than a week after Pfizer Inc. said it would shut down its Ann Arbor research center, the firm's CEO encouraged workers to stay with the company.
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The Irish outpost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab is shutting down, as MIT officials and the Irish government failed to reach agreement on a plan to fund the operation.
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Chris Stone, second in command to CEO Jack Messman at Novell, has abruptly left the company he helped reinvigorate through the endorsement of Linux and the acquisition of SUSE Linux AG.
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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Five days after Microsoft computer scientist Jim Gray vanished along with his sailboat, a stubborn community of tech colleagues tapped into their problem-solving prowess and an array of satellite and software technology.
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Former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned amid a furor over his handling of a bank pay package for his girlfriend, has joined the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank, as a visiting scholar.
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(InfoWorld) - A Microsoft executive has confirmed that the leader of its search team is leaving the company. In an internal memo viewed by IDG News Service, Microsoft's President of its Platforms and Services Division Kevin Johnson said that Christopher Payne is leaving Microsoft to form his own company. Published reports including one by The Wall Street Journal said as much last week, but Microsoft would not confirm his departure. Johnson said in the memo -- dated Friday and sent Sunday night to Microsoft employees, sources said -- that he and Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live Engineering are searching for a successor for Payne. "Christopher has been a tireless leader of our search R&D efforts over the last four years," Sinofsky wrote in his memo. "In that period, we've built a world-class search engine and a fantastic development team focused on this key business and product area for Microsoft. I thank Christopher for his leadership in this area, and wish him well in his future endeavors." Johnson said Microsoft's online services business continues to be "crucial" to the company's future success, and the company is committed to "accelerating" its progress in this area. "We need to drive hard on search, build our services platform to support users around the world, and deliver compelling user experiences," he wrote. "I appreciate your continued focus on the upcoming milestones and deliverables in our current search plan." Microsoft could not be reached immediately for comment through its public relations firm on Monday. Payne's bio remained online Monday, and Johnson's e-mail did not specify when the corporate vice president in charge of Windows Live Search would be leaving the company. It also was not clear if Payne plans to leave Microsoft for his own reasons or if the company is terminating his employment. However, Microsoft's search and online business has not been faring well against Google since Microsoft unveiled a plan in November 2005 to rename its search engine Windows Live Search and develop other Web-based services under that moniker in an attempt to take more of the online advertising market. At the time, the company also announced a small-business hosted package called Office Live. Revenue from Microsoft's online properties also remained relatively flat over the last fiscal year despite the company's increased investment to bolster this part of its business. Before taking over Microsoft's Windows Live Search team, Payne was vice president of MSN.com, where he managed MSN Search, the MSN.com home page, MSN Autos, MSN Entertainment, MSNBC, Slate, and the MSN Channels properties.
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EU official leading antitrust case against Microsoft leaves for consultancy that has software giant as client.
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A federal hurricane research scientist resigned from a United Nations-sponsored climate assessment team, saying the group's leader had politicized the process.
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The president of Harvard Management Co., who came to Boston less than two years ago to take over the world's largest university endowment, will leave the job unexpectedly and return to the investment firm where he formerly worked.
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A researcher for a Labour Assembly Member resigns after calling the Welsh language "brain dead".
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Jeff Raikes, a 26-year veteran of Microsoft, plans to retire later this year and the company announced that it was reaching outside its ranks for his successor.
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Rusi P. Taleyarkhan has been cleared of research misconduct by Purdue University, but questions remain.