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PDF of This Issue MIT’s The Weather Today: Sunny, cold, 40°F (4°C) Oldest and Largest Tonight: Clear, cold, 22°F (-6°C) Tomorrow: Sunny but colder, 35°F (2°C) Newspaper Details, Page 2 Volume 126, Number 1 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, February 7, 2006 Grad Student Trio Bests Competition in 6.270 Incoming By Laura Nicholson STAFF REPORTER Amid a rain of giveaways pelted by sponsors across 26-100, MIT’s Calls to Autonomous Robot Design Com- petition, 6.270, concluded in front of an animated crowd last Thursday Dorms evening. Employing an aggressive strate- gy intended to cripple its opponents, Team “B.A.L. — The Merciless,” Now Free composed of Bogdan I. Fedeles G, Austin J. Che G, and Lindy L. By John A. Hawkinson Blackburn G, recovered from a last- STAFF REPORTER place finish in the seeding rounds to In a partial reversal of a policy take first out of 48 teams. implemented last fall, IS&T rein- Team “Cookie Monster,” with stated direct-dial incoming tele- Derrick C. Tan ’06, Joshua T. Chang phone service to MIT dormitory ’07, and Andrew W. Lee ’07, placed phones free of charge yesterday. second. Students with basic dormitory This year’s contest, called “The phone service are still unable to Broom Club,” challenged teams to place outgoing calls, even to 800 “clean up” the Institute by moving or local numbers. Prior to Septem- colored balls around the game table. ber 2005, when a $17 per month The balls rested on a crest in the full service phone plan was put center of the sloped table at the be- into place, dormitory phone ser- ginning of play, and teams attempted vice provided unrestricted incom- to score points by pushing them into ing calls and free outgoing local the opponent’s area. calls. RAY C. HE—THE TECH “B.A.L. — The Merciless” em- Mark A. Stevens ’09 makes adjustments to his team’s robot, “Inspector Gadget” for the 6.270 competi- Yesterday’s change was final- ployed a simple strategy: at the tion held in 26-100 on Feb. 2. A long, rubber band powered gate that spanned the length of the board ized and announced Thursday by beginning of each match, the five- was part of the team’s strategy. Allison F. Dolan, director of tele- wheel-drive robot rushed across the phony for Information Services table to pin the opposing robot in the Because this starting strategy cantly affect the team’s final perfor- Fedeles said. & Technology, who said the deci- corner, while knocking several balls was so successful, untested code mance. “As you can tell, it’s just the sion was made jointly by IS&T and into the scoring zone. later in the program did not signifi- beginning of the code that works,” 6.270, Page 10 Housing. Dolan said that the change re- sulted from consideration of feed- back, along with a re-examination With All Bids Accepted, After ‘Apprentice’ Success, of IS&T’s cost and service models. She said students, faculty, Campus Alum Reflects on MIT Years Police, and others gave feedback, Sororities Set a Record the majority coming from students. By Jiao Wang at MIT from 1996 to 2001, he com- Some parents voiced their opinions By Marie Y. Thibault cluding the new members, about 510 STAFF REPORTER pleted a MS in Electrical Engineer- through Housing, Dolan said, but NEWS EDITOR MIT women are members of sorori- MIT graduates have ways of mak- ing and Computer Science, an MBA their comments were not particu- For the first time ever, all of the ties, Cho said. About 40 participants ing their presence felt in the world, not from Sloan in the Leaders for Manu- larly strong. women offered bids during sorority did not complete the recruiting pro- only in their traditional disciplines of facturing Program, and a doctorate in Housing, which cannot afford recruitment accepted, marking the cess, and fewer than 10 women who science and engineering, but also in Media Arts and Science. to cover $20 monthly for each dor- end of a banner year for the MIT did complete the process did not re- the humanities, in industry, in busi- Pinkett currently serves as found- mitory phone according to Dolan, Panhellenic Association. ceive a bid, Cho said. ness, and on national television. er, president, and CEO of BCT Part- will continue to pay IS&T $3 per This year’s recruitment period With the use of buses, this year’s Although Ankur Mehta ’04’s ners (http://www.bctpartners.com), phone per month. Therefore stu- also set highs in number of women recruitment process allowed more memorable debut this January on a consulting services firm serving dents in dormitories pay $17 per registering (240), and bids accepted time for the participants to explore “Beauty and the Geek 2” did not win government agencies, corporations, month for full service while other (137), according to Stephanie H. each sorority’s house, Cho said. This him the $250,000 prize, Randal D. foundations, educational institutions, consumers such as laboratories Cho ’06, Panhel vice president of is also the first year that all five so- Pinkett PhD ’02 succeeded in sin- and nonprofit organizations, accord- pay $20. recruitment programming. Last year, rorities have houses, as Alpha Epsi- gling himself out for hire by Donald ing to the company’s Web site. The Continued student interest in 194 registered, and 117 pledged. lon Phi acquired living facilities in Trump in the fourth season of NBC’s Tech had the opportunity to interview transferring outside calls to re- Cho said out of the 240 regis- “The Apprentice.” trants, 190 actually participated. In- Panhel, Page 14 During the years Pinkett spent Pinkett, Page 17 Phones, Page 12 Jasper Lin Conquers Robocraft And Wins Prizes, Job Prospects By Curt Fischer This year’s tournament was themed Jasper S. Lin G, winner of this “king of the hill”: teams programmed year’s IAP Robocraft programming their armies to find and defend a set competition, didn’t even have a chance number of hills scattered over the to set down his prizes — $5,000 and game map, all the while expanding a free iPod — before the Google re- their armies to fend off their oppo- cruiters began to surround him. nents’ attacks. Lin’s nail-biter victory over Nich- The result is that contestants are olas A. Behrens G in a thrilling final “solving the problems that we solve,” match was the capstone to the biggest said Matt Flint, senior engineer at tournament in Robocraft (6.370) his- lead sponsor BAE Systems, which tory. Up for grabs was over $20,000 develops communications systems in prizes, provided by a slew of cor- between unmanned military vehicles. porate sponsors. “Sponsor companies are very re- Why are companies drawn to the ceptive,” said Adam V. Donovan ’07, Robocraft tournament? In the game, a director of this year’s event. “They RICARDO RAMIREZ—THE TECH players develop programs that control see finalists as the best of the best.” Many people crowd the food trucks behind Bldg. 68 at lunchtime. Goosebeary’s, a popular pan- a virtual robot army, which is pitted This year, 296 contestants were Asian food truck normally parked with these, temporarily stopped doing business after its base of against their opponent’s army. The divided into 132 teams. The final operations Indochine Restaurant on 69 First Street had a kitchen fire. twist is that each robot must be pro- grammed independently of the others. Robocraft, Page 16 Comics NEWS W91 suffers emergency shutdown after transformer overload . 11 World & Nation . 2 Burger-shaped robot takes first in Maslab competition. 13 Opinion . 4 After fire, Goosebeary’s is temporarily out of commission . 15 Sports . 20 Page 7 Page 2 THE TECH February 7, 2006 WORLD & NATION Israel to Cooperate Bush Proposes $2.77 Trillion With Palestinian Authority By Steven Erlanger THE NEW YORK TIMES Budget Focused on Defense JERUSALEM Israel will continue to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority and By David E. Sanger between pressure from conserva- more than $2.2 trillion. its interim government so long as Hamas is not represented there, the THE NEW YORK TIMES tives to make real headway in limit- Moreover, Bush’s budget shows acting prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said Monday. WASHINGTON ing the size and role of the federal the tension between his promise, He said Israel would maintain diplomatic relations with the Pales- President Bush proposed a $2.77 government and the political reality since he began seeking the presiden- tinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, whose posi- trillion budget on Monday calling that votes to cut programs that touch cy, to act as a “compassionate con- tion was not directly affected by the sweeping victory of Hamas in the for increased spending on defense the lives of millions of people could servative” and the fiscal pressures legislative elections late last month. and homeland security and substan- make them especially vulnerable to created by his tax cuts and support “I have no interest in harming Palestinian Authority chairman Abu tial cutbacks in domestic programs Democratic attacks in the fall. for added spending on national se- Mazen, as long as he doesn’t cooperate with Hamas and as long as the as disparate as education, farm sub- The budget is chockablock with curity. Palestinian government isn’t led by Hamas,” Olmert told an Israeli- sidies and the national parks. The proposals that could give Republi- The main proposals contained in European economic conference in Tel Aviv. budget bears all the hallmarks of the cans pause, like one to scale back the budget include: “As long as it doesn’t contain a Hamas government, we will speak Bush presidency, making clear that programs that help the poor insulate — An increase in military spend- and cooperate” with the Palestinian Authority “with the intention of his overriding priorities are national their homes.
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