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Volume 126, Number 37 The Weather MIT’s Today: Mostly sunny. 68°F (20°C). Tonight: Mostly clear. 48°F (9°C). Oldest and Largest Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. 70°F Newspaper (21°C). Details, Page 2 Volume 126, Number 37 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, September 12, 2006 MIT Cable Reviewed With Student Surveys Group Formed to Investigate Viewing Needs By Apoorva Murarka choice of channels that can possibly In response to requests from be replaced and channels that the stu- members of the student body regard- dents may want included in the new ing recent proposed changes to the lineup. This survey is being managed MIT Cable channel lineup, an inter- by both the UA and the GSC, and it est group named Cable-storm was is being hosted by the Sidney–Pacific formed in late spring with the aim of graduate community, said Gerald E. improving programming on the MIT Dalley G, GSC Housing and Com- Cable service, Cable-storm member munity Affairs Committee co-chair. Natalija Z. Jovanovic G said. Natalija Jovanovic said that the Cable-storm is comprised of rep- survey has received “a very good re- resentatives from the Undergraduate sponse from both the graduate and the Association, Graduate Student Coun- undergraduate students.” cil, Dormitory Council, MIT Cable “Cable-storm is looking for more Television, and Housing, said Jova- responses so as to establish the survey novic. results more firmly,” Jovanovic said. The current proposal is to drop All students are encouraged to par- a few analog channels and add new ticipate in the survey. ones in their place. A new survey ESPN and Comedy Central are opened late in the summer and will probably the top undergraduate choic- continue to run through Sept. 30, Jovanovic said. The survey offers a Cable, Page 13 CSAIL Director Brooks To Step Down by 2007 By Jihye Kim of this collaboration, Brooks said Rodney Brooks, the current direc- that one of the biggest challenges tor of MIT’s Computer Science and the program faces is obtaining fund- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is ing for long-term research projects. stepping down after a 14 year career Another goal he has in mind for this in pursuit of further research and program is to recruit more women, as teaching opportunities at the CSAIL. the percentage of women at CSAIL Brooks is scheduled to step down by is notably lower than the overall In- end of June 2007, after 10 years of stitute undergraduate population. serving as director and 4 years as as- Brooks said he has decided to step sistant director. down as director because he wants “Right now I get to work with all to return to teaching as well as start of the faculty, always meeting this work on a theoretical and a practical MINDY ENG one and that one. Later, it will be project that he has devised. A full-size replica of a fire truck appeared on the Great Dome during the night between Sunday, lonelier,” said Brooks of his resigna- Brook’s theoretical research, Sept. 10, and Monday, Sept. 11, commemorating the five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 tion. which he calls “adaptive computa- terror attacks. The firetruck is scheduled to be taken down between 10 amd 11 a.m. today. For a Under Brooks, CSAIL has been tion,” is inspired by the extreme more detailed photograph, turn to page 19. involved in many smaller collabora- tive projects with companies. In spite CSAIL, Page 11 MIT Museum to Relocate TechNomads Tackle Trans-Continental Trek By Rosa Cao ing start in Paris when they found a get across Iran — everyone’s driving EXECUTIVE EDITOR Renault with just under 75,000 miles wherever they can over there.” In a daredevil implementation of on it for the bargain price of 500 In addition to the mad driving After Planned Renovation the 21st century corporate credo to euros (around $650). It took them a skills, the self-styled TechNomads By Irene Lee seum’s image is necessary in order “do good by doing well,” four MIT week or so to learn to drive a manual, also spoke five languages between With an unassuming exterior to establish a larger presence in the students took the low road (when but “we’re all pretty good drivers now marked by dusty window displays community. there was a road) and a one liter … you have to be a decent driver to TechNomads, Page 16 and a lone red banner, it is no won- “We are looking at becoming a Renault across Eastern Europe and der that the MIT Museum is not much bigger voice in communicat- Central Asia this summer, ready to drawing an ideal audience. This is ing the work of MIT,” Rosenthal do good by having a blast. something the museum hopes to said. “We want to make research and The so-called race of a Mongol change by a series of renovations innovation accessible to everyone, Rally revels in absurdity; getting topped off with a complete reloca- and our new [plan] sets some pretty from Point A (London, UK) to Point tion to The Metropolitan Storage ambitious goals for recreating the B (Ulan Bator, Mongolia) fast is not Warehouse, located on the corner of museum as a gateway to MIT.” the point at all: doing it in the most ri- Vassar St. and Massachusetts Ave., The first step of this plan has diculous and inefficient way possible within the next five years. been to create programs that reach while collecting some good stories Beryl Rosenthal, director of ex- out to a more diverse audience than is closer to the idea. As a convenient hibitions and public programs, be- footnote, should anyone challenge lieves that the overhaul in the mu- MIT Museum, Page 20 you to justify what you did with your summer (or perhaps, “you did what with your summer?!”), participants are required to raise money for char- William A. Garnett ity by way of their trip, to the tune of By Philip Gefter £1,000 (that’s about $1,900 for any THE NEW YORK TIMES provincial Americans out there) per William A. Garnett, who elevated the genre of aerial photography car. SYED F. AHMED to a form of artistic expression with his sweeping pictures of forests, Syed F. “Fareed” Ahmed ’08, Ab- Syed F. “Fareed” Ahmed ’08 sits in the driver’s seat waiting for the sand dunes, agricultural crops and suburban grids, died at his home in dulbasier Aziz G, Javad Golji ’06, and car to refuel at a gas station in France. Javad Golji ’06 stands by the Napa, Calif., on Aug. 26. He was 89. Nadeem A. Mazen ’06 got a promis- pumps and Nadeem A. Mazen G sits in the passenger seat. His death was confirmed by his son, Bill. For more than 50 years and 10,000 hours of flying time, Garnett piloted his own 1955 Cessna 170B as he photographed out the window, In Short NEWS World & Nation . 2 using a variety of camera formats, with both black-and-white and color films. He flew above every state in the country, as well as in other parts ¶ The MIT Vendor Fair will take Opinion . 4 place under the big white tent near News Briefs . Page 10 of the world. Bldg. 54 on Thursday, Sept. 14. Campus Life . 5 “The polished aluminum two-seat Cessna was his studio, a pri- Justice Grant . Page 11 vate place where the imagination was released from everyday reality,” Sponsored by Procurement, over a Comics / Fun Pages . 7 hundred of MIT’s vendors will be Weston Naef, curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, said present. Harvard Admission .Page 17 Daily Confusion . 14 Garnett, Page 17 Send news information and tips to Sports . 24 [email protected]. Page 2 THE TECH September 12, 2006 WORLD & NATION After Official is Killed, September Terrorist Attacks His Funeral is Bombed By Carlotta Gall THE NEW YORK TIMES KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Remembered at Ground Zero A suicide bomber blew himself up Monday at the funeral of the assassinated governor of Paktia province, killing at least seven people By Sheryl Gay Stolberg I know. But I do not approve. And “But in this place we are inspired and wounding as many as 40. Five of the dead were policemen, and and Christine Hauser I am not resigned. “Surrounded by by a light of patriotism,” Franks said. two were children. THE NEW YORK TIMES police and firefighters at a firehouse “We honor the 40 passengers and The funeral was for Hakim Taniwal, a tribal elder and provincial Americans observed a solemn day in lower Manhattan, President Bush members of the crew of flight 93 governor who was killed in a suicide attack outside his office on Sun- of remembrance Monday in memori- observed the anniversary with back- who were, as has been correctly said, day. He was buried in his home district of Tanai, in Khost province, als around the United States to mark to-back moments of silence, 17 min- one moment ordinary citizens, and where he had also served as governor after the fall of the Taliban. the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, utes apart, each marking the precise the next heroes forever.” “The number of wounded is very high,” the provincial police chief, 2001 attacks, pausing at ground zero time that terrorists flew hijacked As at other memorials, the sol- Gen. Muhammad Ayub, said by telephone. “Actually, we don’t know in New York City and the two other planes into the twin towers. emn strains of bagpipes infused the how many people were wounded yet.” 9/11 sites for moments of silence, The president and Mrs.
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