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Volume 133, Number 11 Tuesday, March 12, 2013 REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK UA elections coming up Chief Google economist talks on next week! Undergraduate Association election week begins at 9 a.m. on Monday, March 18, and students can vote online data, statistics, and Google tools at vote.mit.edu until 11:59 p.m. Friday, March 23. The Spring 2013 UA elections will fill the 2013-2014 UA President/Vice President positions and the Class Coun- Lecture focuses on using Google Trends, Correlate, Surveys cils for each class. There are two tickets running for UAP/ EstablishedBy Anthony Yu 1881 ees were graduate students eager to VP this year: Cory D. Hernandez ’14/John Kongoletos ’14 Staff Reporter learn more about applying “big data” to and Sidhanth P. Rao ’14/Devin T. Cornish ’14. business. The lecture began with quick According to their platforms, Hernandez/Kongoletos Yesterday afternoon, the Under- remarks from UEA President, Ting — who have both had experience within the UA — cite graduate Economics Association host- Mao ’14 and a glowing introduction of “[restoring] trust in the UA” as their mission, saying that ed a lecture by Google’s Chief Econo- Varian by economics lecturer Sara F. the UA is meant to be “an entity that provides a voice to mist, Hal R. Varian ’69, on “Predicting Ellison, who credited him for inspir- undergraduates.” Their vision includes recruitment and the Present with Search Engine Data.” ing a new generation of information student engagement, and ensuring UA accountability Hal Varian, an MIT alum, taught at economists. based on those sources of input. UC Berkeley for several decades before Varian’s lecture focused on three On the other hand, Rao/Cornish are marketing them- becoming Google’s Chief Economist in Google Tools: Trends, Correlate, and selves as UA outsiders, indicating that “the sole func- 2010. He is one of the several influential Consumer Surveys. He began with tion of the UA” is to ensure the success and happiness voices in the emerging field of big data, light-hearted set of questions: “What of every MIT student. Along those lines, they’ve broken particularly noted for saying in The day in the week receives the most their vision down into mutual support in the MIT com- McKinsey Quarterly that being a stat- searches about hangovers?” Appar- munity, student center renovations, and undergraduate istician would be “the sexy job” in the ently, searches about hangovers peak education. next decade. I thought attending the every Sunday with an outlier on Jan. 1, The Tech and the UA are co-hosting the annual UAP/ lectureEstablished would be a great opportunity 1881 eliciting guilty chuckles from the au- VP debate at 7 p.m. this Thursday, March 14, on the first for me as an economics student. dience. This laughter was even more floor of the student center. I arrived at the lecture hall about 10 pronounced when Varian highlighted Platforms of the candidates running for UA President/ minutes early, not expecting to see a that searches about vodka peak a day Vice President and the Class Councils can be seen online giant crowd. However, by the time 4:30 before searches about hangovers. He at http://elections.scripts.mit.edu/candidates/. Check rolled around, E51-345 had filled its ca- presented other statistics, including back in Friday’s issue of The Tech for coverage on the UAP/ pacity of 128 with standing room only. the peak in the search term “civil war” VP debate and in-depth interviews with the candidates. Courtesy of University of California, Berkeley Although billed as an undergraduate —Anne Cai Google Chief Economist, Hal Varian. event, it was clear that most attend- Varian, Page 11

US Attorney General questioned on Swartz

U.S. Attorney General Eric H. zeal Establishedand, I would say, even miscon 1881- Holder was questioned by Senator duct,” said Cornyn. John Cornyn (R-Texas) last week over But Holder said Swartz was never the prosecution of Aaron Swartz. At really facing 35 years in prison and a Senate Judiciary Committee over- that three to six months was much sight hearing, Cornyn asserted that more likely. the penalties Swartz faced for mass “[The] news reports about what downloading JSTOR articles via MIT’s he was facing was not consistent with network were disproportionate to the what the interaction was between magnitude of the crime. the government and Mr. Swartz,” “He was charged with crimes that said Holder, who added that plea of- would have carried a penalty of up to fers were made before and after the 35 years in prison and a million dollar indictment, carrying penalties of at fine. A superseding indictment which most six months. was filed would have upped both the “There was never an intention prison time and the fines. I wrote a for him to go to jail for longer than letter asking about that prosecution and raising questions of prosecutorial Swartz, Page 12

Vanessa Trevino Samuel P. Heilbroner ’13 performs a solo on the alto saxophone. The MIT Festival Jazz En- semble, directed by Frederick Harris, celebrated its 50th anniversary of Jazz at MIT with “Home- News Briefs grown for 50 Years!” on Friday, March 8, 2013. Racy wristbands ing. We appreciate those of you who “That’s a nice dress. It would look noticed the wristbands and pointed great on my floor.” them out to us; please accept our sin- At a “South by Southwest” party cere apology.” p.m. in the Stata Center. The A memorial for Aaron Swartz hosted by the MIT Media Lab in Austin, The blog post mentions that the In Short theme this year is Safety for Pe- will be held today at 4 p.m. on the Nominations are open for the Texas this past Saturday, wristbands wristbands were distributed by the destrians, Bicyclists, and Drivers. sixth floor of the Media Lab. were distributed to party attendees venue (The Parish Underground) and 2013 MIT Awards Convocation for outstanding contributions to with a variety of flirtatious messages. the organizers did not know about TechCash is now accepted at The 2013 CEE/CDO symposium “Do you wash your clothes with them beforehand. the Institute. Nominations are due Sebastian’s Cafe. All TechCash by Friday, March 15 at 5 p.m. at “New Directions in Computa- Windex? Cause I can see myself in your SXSW is an entertainment and in- purchases made in March have a tion and Their Implications pants.” said another. teractive technology conference that’s http://awards.mit.edu/nominate. 15 percent discount. for Engineering” is happening The wristbands were apparently held in Austin every year. It is a collabo- Thursday. Wolfram Research controversial, inciting the Media Lab ration between the Media Lab, Knight Pi Day is Thursday! MIT Regular Applications for Public Service to apologize on its blog yesterday. Foundation, and Mozilla. Action admissions decisions will Center funded summer fellow- founder and CEO Stephen Wol- “They were offensive and in no way re- be available on Thursday begin- ships and internships are due fram will speak in 34-401 from flect the sentiments of the MIT Media Ed Boyden wins brain prize ning at 6:28 p.m. EST. March 21, at noon. More infor- 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Lab,” read the blog post. “We don’t like Ed Boyden, an associate professor mation can be found at http:// — and certainly don’t want to support The Transportation Fair is web.mit.edu/mitpsc/whatwedo/ Send news information and tips or disseminate — offensive messag- Prizes, Page 12 Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1:30 internshipsandfellowships/. to [email protected]. why are secret life of researchers MIT-Wellesley An emphasis SECTIONS World & Nation �����2 On the suspense of doing literature humans special? Relay for life on STEM Opinion �����������������4 reviews. campus life, p. 10 Ask A-Theist, The See photos from this High schools need to Fun Pages �������������6 Tech ’s new column on Evaluating 8.02x and 8.02 weekend’s Relay For Life encourage students Campus Life �������10 worldviews. event. to continue in STEM Sports �����������������16 campus life, p. 10 On rigor and assessing the edX version photo, p. 11 fields. opinion, p. 4 of 8.02. letters, p. 4 2 The Tech Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Hedge fund manager found D and jailed on fraud charges Family believes India rape FRANKFURT, Germany — Florian Homm, a flamboyant former hedge fund manager who spent the last five years in hiding, was arrested Friday in Italy and faced extradition to the suspect was killed United States on securities fraud charges, the FBI said. Italian police arrested Homm, 53, at the Uffizi Gallery in By Heather Timmons ously damaged in a bus accident. up for sexual assault cases. The cre-

worl Florence, the FBI said. Homm is accused of defrauding inves- and Niharika Mandhana In addition, they said, he shared his ation of such courts was a direct re- tors of at least $200 million, the FBI said. The most serious of The New York Times cell in the Tihar prison complex with sult of the uproar over the fatal rape

n the four felony charges carry maximum sentences of 25 years several inmates, making it difficult to in December, as thousands of people in prison. NEW DELHI — The family of believe he could have hanged him- across India, long angered by selec- Homm was one of Germany’s best-known financiers before a suspect in a fatal gang rape here self without being noticed. tive law enforcement and endemic he disappeared in 2007 as his portfolio of hedge funds, Abso- last December who was found dead “I suspect there is foul play,” the corruption, vented their outrage over lute Capital Management Holdings, was collapsing. Monday morning in his jail cell said lawyer, V.K. Anand, said. “There failures in preventing and prosecut- Until then, Homm had been a symbol of predatory capi- they believed he was killed. The case were no circumstances for commit- ing crimes against women. talism in Germany. In 2004, he bought 26 percent of Borussia had set off an uproar across India. ting suicide. His mental state was A sixth defendant, a teenager, is atio Dortmund, a beloved but nearly bankrupt soccer team, and The man, Ram Singh, was ac- stable, the trial was going well, he being tried as a juvenile. The four forced management changes. Homm seemed to relish his role cused of being the driver of a bus was meeting with his family. I can’t men face 13 charges, including mur- — appearing on German talk shows or posing for photographs in which a 23-year-old woman was understand why he would commit der — which could carry the death in front of his villa on the Spanish island of Majorca. beaten and raped. The woman suf- suicide.” penalty — rape, and robbery. —Jack Ewing, The New York Times fered severe internal injuries from Some family members said Singh Singh, whose job was to transport being sexually assaulted with an iron had been abused in jail. schoolchildren in the bus, which lat- Islamists kill 7 captives in rod. Singh was found at 5:45 a.m. “It is not suicide, he has been er became the site of the attack, was hanging from a bedsheet rope sus- hanged by the police,” Singh’s father, the first suspect the police appre-

& N Nigeria, a shift in tactics pended from a ceiling grill, jail offi- Mangilal, said in an interview. He hended after the attack was reported. cials said. said that his son had told him on Fri- His confession to the police led DAKAR, Senegal — Radical Islamists in northern Nigeria An investigation was under way, day that the police were beating him them to the others, who were ac- have killed seven foreign construction workers who were kid- the officials said. in jail and that he was being pres- cused and helped officers piece napped in February, a significant escalation of extremist vio- “It is a major lapse in security — sured to change his lawyer. together what had happened that lence in Nigeria’s continuing jihadist insurgency. certainly it is not a small incident,” Earlier Monday, the father told night. The killings were announced Saturday by an obscure splin- India’s home minister, Sushil Kumar the television channel NewsX that According to the police charge ter group, Ansaru, and confirmed by European foreign minis- Shinde, said at a news conference in Ram Singh had said that other in- sheet, a group of drunken men, look- orld tries on Sunday. The seven — an Italian, a Greek, an English- New Delhi. mates had raped him. ing for victims to harass, tricked the man, and four from the Middle East, including Lebanon — were But Singh’s family members and Singh’s brother, Mukesh, is one young woman and a male friend into seized on Feb. 16 from the compound of Setraco, a Lebanese his lawyer said that he would not of the other four men accused in the getting on the bus, attacked them, construction company operating in Nigeria’s Bauchi state, in a have been able to tie a noose, be- W case, which is being tried in a special and then stripped off their clothes well-planned nighttime assault. A grainy photo released by the cause his right arm had been seri- “fast track” court in South Delhi set and left them on a highway. group showed a gunman standing by a number of corpses. The deaths signal a shift in tactics by the radical Islamists who have been battling the Nigerian government for nearly four years in the country’s impoverished north. The Islamist group Boko Haram has previously attacked, for the most part, Hungary tests the European officials and institutions associated with federal and local au- thorities, though plenty of civilians have been killed along the way. —Adam Nossiter, The New York Times Union’s norms

Europe to ban cosmetics with By Dan Bilefsky man rights activists, the Council 33 abstentions, will allow the gov- The New York Times of Europe, the EU and the United ernment to reintroduce measures animal-tested ingredients States, fear could undermine the rejected by the constitutional court For Hungary, still seeking na- judiciary, silence criticism, and over the last 18 months. BRUSSELS — EU regulators are expected to announce tional accord on what constitutes threaten the checks and balances These include a law requiring Monday a ban on the import and sale of cosmetics contain- democracy, and for Europe, still of democratic government. students who received state schol- ing ingredients tested on animals and to pledge more ef- uncertain how to treat govern- “We are not yet North Korea, arships to stay in Hungary or pay forts to push other parts of the world, like China, to accept ments deemed to have strayed but this amendment is extremely them back if they leave; a ban on alternatives. from European Union norms, alarming because it removes con- political advertising in private me- The European Union banned animal testing of finished Monday produced a symbolic mo- stitutional control and checks over dia; and a law allowing local au- cosmetic products in 2004. ment in the annals of protecting the Legislature,” said Peter Hack, a thorities, in the name of public or- A second ban, on animal-tested ingredients, went into ef- civil rights. leading professor of constitutional der, to fine or jail homeless people fect four years ago. But heavy lobbying by major cosmetics On a state visit to Germany, law at ELTE University in Buda- living on the street. manufacturers resulted in an extension of the deadline for President Janos Ader of Hungary pest. “It is a bald and dangerous The passing of the amendment some tests for effects like allergies and cancer and for which visited a prison in Berlin where power grab.” comes amid growing concerns that there is still no substitute. East Germany’s dreaded secret po- While even the government’s the center-right government of Or- The ban, which will take effect immediately, “gives an im- lice, the Stasi, held thousands of staunchest critics acknowledge ban, which has a two-thirds ma- portant signal on the value that Europe attaches to animal political prisoners, including some that Hungary, an EU member, jority in Parliament and came to welfare,” Tonio Borg, the EU commissioner for health and of the harshest critics of the now has put communism far behind power in 2010, is trying to tighten consumer policy, said in the draft copy of a statement to be re- defunct Communist regime. it, thousands took to the streets its grip, including in the judiciary, leased Monday and seen by the International Herald Tribune. Back in Hungary, lawmakers of Budapest over the weekend to the media, the central bank, edu- The cosmetics company L’Oreal, which is based in France, from Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s protest the changes, and the op- cation, and even cultural life. It has said Friday that it would respect the ban and “no longer sell Fidesz party and its small ally, the position Socialists boycotted the laid bare the limits of the European in Europe any finished product with an ingredient that was Christian Democrats, passed a vote. Constitutional experts said Union in calling to account mem- tested on animals” after Monday. lengthy amendment to the consti- the amendment, passed in the ber states it fears have transgressed —James Kanter, The New York Times tution that critics, including hu- 386-seat Parliament 265-11, with its democratic norms.

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Stationary Front Heavy Westerly winds at 10–15 mph. and The Tech nation world & nation world & nation world & nation & nation world & nation world & nation world nation Tuesday, March 12, 2013 The Tech 3 US demands that China end WORLD & Nati North Korea says it has hacking and set cyber rules nullified 1953 armistice WASHINGTON — The Obama administration demanded Monday that China take steps to stop the widespread hacking of U.S. government and corporate computer networks and that it By Choe Sang-Hun against the South. guage between the two Koreas has engage in a dialogue to set standards for security in cyberspace. The New York Times “We must deal strongly with recently intensified, recalling the The demands, laid out in a speech by President Barack a North Korean provocation,” the level of tension after the North Ko- Obama’s national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, represent SEOUL, South Korea — North South’s new president, Park Geun- rean artillery barrage in 2010, which the first direct response by the White House to a raft of attacks Korea declared the 1953 Korean War hye, said during her first Cabinet left four South Koreans dead. After on U.S. computer networks, many of which appear to have origi- armistice nullified on Monday, fol- meeting Monday. She called for the the United Nations imposed the nated with the People’s Liberation Army. lowing through on a longstanding protection of people living on a bor- new sanctions as a penalty for the “U.S. businesses are speaking out about their serious con- threat that it renewed last week amid der island that was attacked by North North’s third nuclear test, on Feb. cerns about sophisticated, targeted theft of confidential busi- rising tensions with South Korea. Korean artillery in 2010 and of South 12, the North said that it would nul- ness information and proprietary technologies through cyber- on The move comes as the United Koreans working in a joint industrial lify the armistice and that it was be- intrusions emanating from China on an unprecedented scale,” States and South Korea are in the park in the North Korean border city ing threatened with a pre-emptive Donilon said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Asia Society midst of two months of joint mili- of Gaesong. nuclear strike that it might itself in New York. tary drills, which started on March But she also said her two-week- pre-empt with nuclear strikes on He also announced that the Treasury Department would WORLD & Nati 1, and on Monday they began an- old government would work to build Washington and Seoul. South Korea impose sanctions on a North Korean bank that specializes in other planned joint military exer- “trust” with North Korea. responded that in the case of such at- foreign-exchange transactions — ratcheting up the pressure cise that involved bringing 2,500 During the Cabinet meeting, Park tacks, the North Korean government on the North Korean government on the day that Pyongyang troops from the United States. Stir- also criticized senior military officers would be “erased from the Earth.” announced it would no longer abide by the 1953 armistice that ring up a sense of crisis among its for playing golf last weekend amid On Monday, the North’s official halted the Korean War. impoverished people, North Korea the tensions with the North. Her of- Korean Central News Agency said —Mark Landler, The New York Times was also staging an unusually vigor- fice was investigating news reports that the armistice had been nullified. ous military drill of its own, South that a military golf course in Seoul The North followed through on an- Ukrainian blogger escapes her Korean officials said. was crowded with senior army offi- other threat as well, cutting off a Red However, there were no signs of cers, including generals, on Saturday Cross hot line that the two Koreas Syrian captors hostility along the border between and Sunday. used to discuss humanitarian issues. the two Koreas. South Korean of- Kim Min-seok, spokesman of However, the two continued to MOSCOW — A Ukrainian blogger and journalist captured by ficials said they were increasing the Defense Ministry, admitted that operate channels of communica- a Syrian rebel group some five months ago announced that she their vigilance amid fears that some officers played golf on the tion to allow hundreds of South Ko- had escaped her captors on Monday but offered little detail, tell- North Korea might use the U.S.- weekend. But he added that none of reans to commute to the Gaesong ing a Russian radio station that she “just walked out and left.” South Korean military drills and a them served in sensitive command- industrial complex, one of the last A spokesman for Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that fresh round of U.N. sanctions as an ing posts. remaining symbols of inter-Korean the blogger, Anhar Kochneva, was free, but offered no account of on excuse to create an armed skirmish The exchange of bellicose lan- cooperation. how that had come about, saying she had contacted the Ukrai- nian Embassy in Damascus. Kochneva, who worked as a fixer for Russian journalists in Syria, was captured near the city of Homs in October, reportedly by a group from the Free Syrian Army. WORLD & Nati In an interview with the radio station Business FM, Kochneva said she “just walked out and left, and in about 15 kilometers I Drone strike reported in Pakistan met some normal people who helped me cross over” to govern- ment-controlled territory. Later, she told RIA-Novosti, a news agency, that she had been tribal region held in a suburb of Homs called al-Bueida, and was the captive of the head of the local military council of the Free Syrian Army. By Ismail Khan ram Shah, the main town in North of controversy between Pakistan On her blog, Kochneva was more mysterious, writing: “Your and Declan Walsh Waziristan. and the United States. Alice has returned from behind the looking-glass. Details later.” The New York Times “Details are sketchy. We don’t Last week, U.S. officials denied —Ellen Barry, The New York Times know the identity of those killed, any involvement in two strikes that PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Two and our local contacts say the bod- Pakistani officials and the news Thousands of dead pigs found in people suspected of being mili- ies were unrecognizable and be- media had reported as CIA drone tants were killed Sunday morning yond recognition,” the senior offi- strikes, on Feb. 6 and Feb. 8. After- Chinese river in the volatile North Waziristan cial in Peshawar said, speaking on ward, a U.S. official quoted in The tribal region by what Pakistani and customary condition of anonym- New York Times said that at least BEIJING — More than 2,800 dead pigs have been found in a

Taliban officials said was a drone ity. “We don’t know if they were one of the attacks could have been major river that flows through Shanghai, igniting fears among on strike. locals or foreign militants.” a conventional airstrike by the city residents of contaminated tap water, according to state news If confirmed, the attack could That official said the two people Pakistani military. That claim was media reports Monday. be the first U.S. strike in Waziristan who were killed had been traveling rejected by Pakistani officials. Officials were trying to determine who had dumped the car- in two months — one of the lon- on a motorcycle when the missile The last drone attack that was casses into the river, the Huangpu, which slices through the WORLD & Nati gest operational pauses since the struck, but the official in the tribal recognized by both Pakistan and heart of Shanghai. Some reports blamed farmers. Officials were drone campaign started in earnest belt said they were on horseback. the United States, albeit unoffi- seeking to track the source of the pigs from marks on their ears, in mid-2008. There were some reports that three cially, was on Jan. 10. and a preliminary inquiry found that the dumping occurred in U.S. and Pakistani officials are people were killed in the attack. Separately, the police in Lahore Zhejiang province, which is south of Shanghai and upstream on at odds over whether two previ- A Taliban spokesman in Miram said they had arrested 150 men in the Huangpu. ous attacks this year were U.S. Shah confirmed that two militants connection with an attack on a Photographs of the carcasses floating in the river were circu- drone strikes or some other kind on a motorcycle had been killed in Christian colony on Saturday in lating widely on the Internet. One photograph on the website of violence. a drone strike. “I cannot confirm which about 170 homes and two of Global Times showed sanitation workers in orange vests and Two Pakistani officials, one their nationality and group affili- churches were burned. blue uniforms lifting carcasses from Hengliaojing Creek with in Peshawar and another in the ation at the moment,” the spokes- The attack, which involved sev- long wooden poles. tribal belt, said that missiles fired man said by telephone. eral thousand people, was spurred An accompanying report, citing a Shanghai news website, from a drone operated by the CIA The timing and nature of the by accusations of blasphemy said the first carcasses were discovered Thursday near a water hit the two people in the village of previous two reported strikes in against a Christian sanitation treatment plant in an area that is a protected water resource. Degan, about 20 miles from Mi- Waziristan have become a matter worker earlier in that week. Their numbers increased quickly over the weekend, and the tally is expected to grow further as search barges return to Shanghai. Shanghai Waterworks, which manages the city’s tap water,

said Sunday night that the water still met drinking standards, ac- on cording to Xinhua, the state news agency. Shanghai officials said the group was checking the water hourly. Iran blocks way to bypass Internet —Edward Wong, The New York Times filtering system Ovarian cancer study finds WORLD & Nati widespread flaws in treatment By Thomas Erdbrink which users are encouraged to re- and social media networks with in- The New York Times port illegal use of the Internet. This creasing frequency as tools oper- Most women with ovarian cancer receive inadequate care page, Peyvandha.ir, also explains in ated by foreign intelligence agen- and miss out on treatments that could add a year or more to their TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s pow- Persian that websites that promote cies. While several Iranian political lives, a new study has found. erful Ministry of Information and “debauchery, boozing, pornogra- figures, among them the supreme The results highlight what many experts say is a neglected Communications Technology has phy, the sharing of pictures, and leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, problem: widespread, persistent flaws in the care of women with blocked the most popular software advocating ideas against religion” have Facebook pages, the authori- this disease, which kills 15,000 a year in the United States. About used by millions of Iranians to by- are forbidden. ties say the pages were created by 22,000 new cases are diagnosed annually, most of them discov- pass an elaborate official Internet The VPNs helped users to go on- fans. ered at an advanced stage and needing aggressive treatment. filtering system, stepping up a cam- line through foreign-based servers, While the Ministry of Informa- Worldwide, there are about 200,000 new cases a year. paign to gain more control over the and visit websites anonymously tion and Communication Technol- Cancer specialists around the country say the main reason for way Iranians use the Internet. and unrestricted. While illegal in ogy executes Iran’s elaborate filter- the poor care is that most women are treated by doctors and hos- As of Thursday, a collection of Iran, the software, which requires ing policies, the National Center pitals that see few cases of the disease and lack expertise in the illegal virtual private networks, or usernames and passwords, has for Cyberspace, established a year complex surgery and chemotherapy that can prolong life. on VPNs, was successfully closed off been widely available in the ago as the Supreme Council for Cy- “If we could just make sure that women get to the people by the ministry, making visits to country. berspace, decides which websites who are trained to take care of them, the impact would be much websites deemed immoral or po- Industry insiders say that should be blocked. greater than that of any new chemotherapy drug or biological litically dangerous — like Facebook hardware to block the VPNs was Recognizing, however, that un- agent,” said Dr. Robert E. Bristow, the director of gynecologic on- W and Whitehouse.gov — nearly installed in the Ministry of Infor- fettered access to the Internet is cology at the University of California, Irvine, and lead author of impossible. mation and Communication Tech- essential for doing business, con- the new study presented on Monday at a meeting of the Society Popular mobile applications nology and its regional centers ducting research, and other every- of Gynecologic Oncology in Los Angeles. o like Viber, for free phone calls, and several months ago, and that after day activities, the National Center Dr. Barbara A. Goff, a professor of gynecologic oncology at Whatsapp, for free text messaging several test periods Iran now has for Cyberspace last month started the University of Washington, in Seattle, who was not part of R

service, have also been experienc- the ability to control the software offering its own, state-controlled Bristow’s study, said the problem with ovarian cancer care was l ing problems. when used in Iran. VPN software with the proviso clear: “We’re not making the most use of things that we know People trying to visit illegal web- In recent years, Iran’s leaders that users promise not to visit sites work well.” D sites are being directed to a page on have been labeling foreign websites deemed illegal. —Denise Grady, The New York Times 4

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 The Tech 11 Correlations from consumer sentiment and trends Varian talks about making predictions using data from search queries, consumer surveys Varian, from Page 1 how easy it is to collect data with these data easily accessible, it “de- regression line on each succes- tions that were raised concerned Google Consumer Surveys, noting mocratizes the whole profession” sive lecture slide became better the possibilities of big data and which generally peaks “three days that he started a consumer survey and has large implications for both fitted towards the data points as the “how” behind Google’s busi- before the term paper is due.” before dinner about the minimum businesses and social sciences. Google’s search data was added. ness. Some even inquired about Once the audience was thor- wage, and after dessert, there were My favorite part of his lecture With more data, better predictive the prices that Google charges to oughly entertained, he transi- about 700 responses. He claimed was when he briefly touched upon models can be built. use its tools. I eventually got up tioned to a more practical ap- that the next best alternative to how the consumer sentiment, a the courage to ask whether or not plication of Google Tools. Varian survey very helpful to economists With more data, there was a particular set of data showed that queries about un- The next best during the past recession, could he particularly enjoyed research- employment claims are a good be better interpreted. Varian said, better predictive ing. Varian simply couldn’t decide, indicator of the unemployment alternative to an “As economists, we don’t quite models can be built. stating “there’s a lot of things you rate and when a recession begins online survey know what the best correlates will can look at that are both interest- and ends. Google’s large data set be. It’s not obvious.” Indeed, the After 40 minutes speaking, ing and instructive.” He suggested from searches allows people to would be 40 times consumer sentiment survey con- Varian wrapped up his presenta- that he thought looking at trends build better predictive models tained “fat data” which has many tion by concluding that “the chal- across countries was a more in- that take into account the relation- more expensive. predictors but few observations. lenge that is facing the economics triguing topic. ships between different variables. Varian showed how Google’s pri- profession is how do we combine The lecture was a great oppor- With a linear model, it is “hard to running an online survey would vate data on queries related to fi- public and private data in a useful tunity for students interested in catch the turning point,” but with be roughly 40 times more expen- nancial planning, investing, busi- way.” Needless to say, most of the economics, information, and busi- Google’s detailed search data, sive. In addition, with Google’s ness news, utilities, and search attendees were sold on his presen- ness. His presentation highlighted more accurate regressions can be survey tools, one can see how engines helped make more sense tation about big data. the bright future of big data and il- drawn. word changes in the phrasing of of the raw data of consumer sen- For the last 20 minutes, Varian luminated what it means to be bet- In addition, Varian highlighted questions affect responses. With timent. It was amazing to see the took questions. Most of the ques- ter at forecasting the future.

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Innovation in surgery, optogenetics Prizes, from Page 1 his work in “puncture access procedures.” in brain and cognitive sciences Many minimally invasive and the Media Lab, won the 2013 surgeries begin with a small Grete Lundbeck European Brain puncture made by the surgeon. Research Prize yesterday. The Despite these incisions be- award is one million Euros. ing minimal, they often plunge The prize is given by the through more tissue than need- Lundbeck Foundation of Den- ed — a result of the surgeon’s mark for outstanding brain human reaction time. Begg has research. invented a force-sensing device Boyden received his work with a blade that retracts within for pioneering optogenetics, 1/100 of a second after passing a technology he developed to through skin tissue. This cre- control brain activity using ation minimizes damage, and light. can scale to a variety of medical puncture devices. Lemelson Prize Begg shares the Lemelson- Nikolai Begg, a PhD student MIT Collegiate Student Prize in Mechanical Engineering, just with two students from the won the Lemelson-MIT student University of Illinois at Urbana- prize for his work making surgi- Champaign and Rensselaer Poly- cal procedures less invasive. He technic Institute, respectively. Free Pi Day Giveaways! Free Pizza Pie starting at noon! will receive $30,000 to continue —Jessica J. Pourian Pi Day merchandise on sale!

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If you have anything, contact us: The mission of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies is to dramatically improve the protection and survivability of the Soldier and first responder through basic research and collaboration with the Army and industry. [email protected] Tuesday, March 12, 2013 The Tech 13 Harvard comments on search of email accounts By Richard Perez-Pena next faculty meeting, in early April. to conduct more business through ment and nearly word-for-word the other leak, of the Administrative and Jess Bidgood In her first comment on the private email accounts outside of disclosure of a confidential board Board’s deliberations. The New York Times matter, Harvard’s president, Drew Harvard’s reach. conversation led to concerns that That resident dean and one oth- Gilpin Faust, said that she did not Most professors who agreed to other information — especially stu- er were told about the email search- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Har- know about the searches at the discuss the matter on Monday in- dent information we have a duty to es shortly after they took place, ad- vard University and its president time, but that having been ap- sisted on anonymity, not wanting protect as private — was at risk,” the ministrators said, but the other 14 on Monday made their first pub- prised, “I feel very comfortable that to run afoul of the administration. deans wrote. resident deans were not told until lic comments on the university’s great care was taken to safeguard Several of them, conceding that the Resident deans live among stu- last week, after The Boston Globe searching of staff members’ email the privacy of all concerned.” university had a legal right to con- dents in Harvard’s residential hous- inquired about the matter. accounts, and offered a qualified es and act as student advisers, and They were not told to protect “the apology for keeping the searches Hart and other professors said the searches they are also lecturers, meaning that privacy of the resident dean who secret from most of the employees they teach courses but are not on a had made an inadvertent error,” involved. would prompt them to conduct more tenure track to professorship. Each Hammonds and Smith wrote. “We The episode has angered faculty business through private email accounts. one generally has a personal Har- understand that others may see the members and refocused attention vard email account and one specifi- situation differently, and we apolo- on Harvard’s largest cheating scan- Faculty responses revealed a gap duct the searches, said the problem cally for the job of resident dean. gize if any resident deans feel our dal in memory, which involved a between expectations in academia, was, as one put it, that “we never The deans’ statement on Mon- communication at the conclusion of take-home final exam in a govern- where privacy is often seen as inte- thought they would — we never day emphasized that the search the investigation was insufficient.” ment class last spring. After an in- gral to academic freedom, and the thought about it at all, and we prob- was conducted only of the resident On his blog, Michael Mitzen- vestigation, about 70 students were corporate world, in which employ- ably should have.” dean accounts, not personal ones, macher, a computer science profes- forced to take a leave of absence. ees are often told to assume that One leak last year involved an and only for the subject line on each sor, wrote that he was satisfied with In September, when confidential workplace emails are not private. email from the university’s Admin- message, to determine whether some parts of the administration’s information about cheating cases Some professors wondered aloud istrative Board to resident deans, the confidential email had been explanation, but “in my opinion, appeared in news reports, admin- whether they had been naïve to offering guidance on how to advise forwarded. the administration made an error in istrators ordered searches of the think that things would be different students accused of cheating. Some The search determined that one judgment” in not telling the resident email accounts of 16 resident deans, at a university, and said they were have questioned why such a minor resident dean had forwarded the deans of the search. to find the source of the leaks. forced to re-examine assumptions breach prompted an investigation. email to two students who were ac- Wilfried Schmid, a mathemat- In an online statement posted about confidentiality. But the statement posted Mon- cused of cheating and had sought ics professor, said he still wanted to Monday morning, university of- “It’s disturbing because I don’t day, attributed to Michael D. Smith, the dean’s advice. know more about what happened. ficials acknowledged the searches know what it means about whether dean of the faculty of arts and sci- Hammonds and Smith wrote “I certainly get the sense that many and explained their reasoning. they could look at my own email,” ences, and Evelynn M. Hammonds, that the resident dean who had of my colleagues will be upset, and The statement eased the concerns said Oliver Hart, an economics pro- dean of Harvard College, said ad- forwarded the messages did so in so there will be a discussion,” he of some faculty members but did fessor. “We need to have a discus- ministrators were more troubled good faith and was not punished. said. not alleviate them completely, and sion and a better understanding of by another leak, recounting closed- The statement did not say whether But he urged the faculty not to professors said they expected that the policy.” door discussions by the Administra- administrators determined how lose sight of what he considered the email privacy would be the topic He and other professors said tive Board. the email found its way to the news bigger issue, the cheating episode of a full-throated discussion at the the searches would prompt them “The disclosure of the docu- media, or who was responsible for itself.

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Dr. Carol W. Greider Telomeres and Telomerase: Past, Present and Future

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lecture For Undergraduates Marc h 15 th Friday 4–5 pm, 76-156 Koch Auditorium2013 Telomeres are essential functional components of chromosomes; they protect chromosome ends from recombination and from being recognized as DNA damage. Telomeres shorten with each cell division due to the end replication problem, but are then elongated by the unique DNA polymerase called telomerase. This shortening and lengthening establishes a telomere length equilibrium that is essential for cells to maintain. All cells that undergo many cell divisions have to solve the telomere shortening problem, thus telomerase is required for the extensive cell divisions that occur in cancer cells and in tissue-specific

stem cells. Mice that are null for telomerase are initially Dr. Greider received her Ph.D. in 1987 from the UC viable yet they show progressive telomere shortening Berkeley. In 1984, working together with Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, she discovered telomerase, an with progressive generations of inter-breeding. These enzyme that maintains telomeres, which she first isolated and characterized from the ciliate mice are excellent models to understand human Tetrahymena. In 1988, Dr. Greider went to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where she cloned and diseases caused by telomere shortening. To fully characterized the RNA component of telomerase. understand and potentially treat telomere shortening in There, she expanded the focus of her telomere research to include the role of telomere length in cell disease, it will be essential to dissect the mechanism senescence, cell death and in cancer. In 1997, she moved her laboratory to the Dept. of Molecular of telomere length equilibrium maintanance. Biology and Genetics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 2004 she was appointed as the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Reception to Follow. Open to undergraduates. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. At JHU, Dr. Greider’s group continued to study the Others welcome. biochemistry of telomerase and determined the secondary structure of the human telomerase RNA. She has won a number of awards for the work on telomerase, and she shared the Nobel Prize in Event sponsored by the Physiology or Medicine with Drs. Elizabeth Blackburn Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Jack Szostak in 2009. 14 The Tech Tuesday, March 12, 2013 This space donated by The Tech SPERM DONORS Earn up to

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