CORRECTIONS
In the Friday, Feb. 21 review of Garden at the Cellar, the listing of the restaurant’s times was incomplete. They are also open for lunch Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and for brunch on Saturdays and Sundays during the same hours.
Alcator C-Mod experiment operates with restored funds
In a large, press-filled event at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) Monday, scientists and legislators celebrated the restoration of funding to Alcator C-Mod. The ceremony began with the press of a giant red button, signifying the restart of nuclear fusion experiments at the facility.
Ex-MIT professor Moniz is the man in the middle
Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz is known around his department for a quick wit, a leader of a vast bureaucracy who draws quotes from Monty Python skits and chuckles self-deprecatingly at the attention paid to his unusual Colonial-style hairdo.
Novartis AG to buy out Cambridge cancer drug firm, CoStim Pharma
The Swiss drug giant Novartis AG, moving to establish itself as a top player in the hot field of cancer treatment known as immunotherapy, on Monday said it had snapped up two-year-old CoStim Pharmaceuticals Inc., a venture-backed Cambridge biotech using research from Boston academic labs.
East Boston attacks leave women wary and on edge
Denise Nguyen has heard all the safety tips: Don’t walk alone at night. Be aware of your surroundings. Travel in pairs.
CORRECTIONS
The story in Tuesday’s issue about President Reif’s message to the MIT community in response to the legal situation involving Tidbit incorrectly stated that Hal Abelson sent a draft of the letter to Reif, Barnhart, and Morgan before soliciting signatures throughout the MIT community on Thursday, Feb. 13. In fact, Abelson sent the administrators the draft shortly after sending it to CSAIL members on that date.
East Campus Housemasters to retire at end of the semester
Thomas J. and Kate Delaney, the East Campus (EC) Housemasters, are stepping down from their roles at the end of this semester. Kate Delaney, a lecturer in the Department of Literature, and Tom, a lecturer in Comparative Media Studies / Writing, have been Housemasters for EC since 2006. The Delaneys will be retiring at the end of this semester.
NEWS BRIEFS
On Tuesday, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced its 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship winners, which included nine MIT researchers. A total of 126 fellowships were awarded.
CORRECTIONS
An article last Friday about calls for MIT to take a stand in Tidbit’s legal battle implied that Professor Hal Abelson PhD ’73 wrote the “petition” to President L. Rafael Reif. In fact, the authors are Abelson, Ethan Zuckerman, and Nathan Matias, and they call it an “open letter.” The article also misstated Matias’s name.
NEWS BRIEFS
Olafur Eliasson, the recipient of the 2014 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, will be on campus to receive the award on March 12-14. The award, which recognizes innovative talents in any artistic discipline, includes a prize of $100,000 as well as a residency at MIT.
Boston’s Red Sox embraces change
FORT MYERS, Fla. — In hoping for an extension of a contract that will expire after the 2014 season, Jon Lester has said he would be willing to give the Boston Red Sox a hometown discount because he loves playing in Boston and has an aversion to change.
Regulators and hackers put Bitcoin to the test
Bitcoin is facing significant growing pains as it struggles to move beyond a stormy adolescence.
CPW events allowed to extend past 1 a.m.
Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) events can now once again be held past 1 a.m., according to the Undergraduate Association (UA) President Sidhanth P. Rao ’14. However, all events held after 1 a.m. must have a “wind-down” component, and will be presented in a different style in the Admissions Office CPW booklet. The announcement comes after the MIT Admissions Office’s announcement in December of a ban on all events between 1 and 6 a.m. In previous years, CPW events were allowed to be held after 3 a.m. as long as there was a safety plan to get the prefrosh home.
Mechanical engineers flock to hardware hackathon MakeMIT
Approximately 200 students gathered in Lobdell Dining Hall last Saturday to participate in the first phase of MakeMIT, a hardware hackathon organized by TechX. While the past year has seen college hackathons (including TechX’s very own HackMIT) increase in both scale and number, most of the emphasis has been on software, with few options for non-computer science students to get in on the action.
Student innovators may get new legal resource
President L. Rafael Reif sent a letter to the MIT community Saturday evening clarifying the Institute’s support for the student creators of Tidbit, the Bitcoin-harvesting hackathon project, which was the subject of a subpoena from the State Attorney General of New Jersey served to Jeremy L. Rubin ’16. The response, which also includes a proposal for a new “resource for independent legal advice” for students, comes after Professor Hal Abelson PhD ’73; Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media; and Nathan Matias G released a widely-circulated open letter advocating that MIT take an official stance on the matter.
Open letter calls on MIT to do more in Tidbit's legal battle
An open letter circulated online Thursday urged MIT to take a stand on a pending court case involving Jeremy L. Rubin ‘16, who was served a subpoena by New Jersey for documents, correspondence, and code associated with a Bitcoin-related project called Tidbit.
NEWS BRIEFS
In an email sent out to MIT undergraduates, the Undergraduate Association (UA) requested student input to questions that had originally been posed in the Abelson report, “MIT and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz,” written by Professors Hal Abelson PhD ‘73 and Peter A. Diamond. President L. Rafael Reif and the Academic Council, MIT’s senior academic and administrative leaders, agreed that the report required an open discussion in the MIT community about personal ethics, MIT’s obligations to the extended community, and lessons MIT can learn from the hacker culture. Such a conversation had previously occurred with faculty members and graduate students before the UA reached out to the undergraduate community.