Google also sez Peter Chambers is, among other things:
1. a fictional detective created by Henry Kane, back when they used to have stories on the radio
2. a racecar driver
3. a "publications editor"
4. chairman of a committee on a small town council
5. oh, and a building.
Yes, and how many of those talks were given by grad students? In my experience, most (definitely not all) of the grad students are the hard workers who do your actual hands-on research.
Furthermore, while it may be true that the Media Lab is more frivolous than, say, LCS, it still outputs some truly great things - such as, as others have pointed out, LEGO Mindstorms. For more, check out their patents list.
Of course, there are the ideas that are... well, harebrained. The "smart" oven mitt, for example, that tells you if an object you touch is hot. Let me see, I'll go put on my oven mitt to take something out of a heated oven... well goddamn, it's hot. Better not touch it.
Maybe some ideas are better left as ideas.:)
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The only way salon erred was by not mentioning MIT - our hacking tradition is infamous. (Yes, we still call it 'hacking', not 'vadding'.)
There's no way our administrators can't know what's going on - the 'off-limits' undergrad tour ("Orange Tour") is one of the key attractions of orientation despite the leaders' constant warnings, i.e. "If a CP asks you where you're going, what are you going to say?" "We're trying to find the way to Baker..."
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Google also sez Peter Chambers is, among other things:
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1. a fictional detective created by Henry Kane, back when they used to have stories on the radio
2. a racecar driver
3. a "publications editor"
4. chairman of a committee on a small town council
5. oh, and a building.
It's sort of a common name, you see.
Furthermore, while it may be true that the Media Lab is more frivolous than, say, LCS, it still outputs some truly great things - such as, as others have pointed out, LEGO Mindstorms. For more, check out their patents list.
Of course, there are the ideas that are... well, harebrained. The "smart" oven mitt, for example, that tells you if an object you touch is hot. Let me see, I'll go put on my oven mitt to take something out of a heated oven... well goddamn, it's hot. Better not touch it.
Maybe some ideas are better left as ideas. :)
There's no way our administrators can't know what's going on - the 'off-limits' undergrad tour ("Orange Tour") is one of the key attractions of orientation despite the leaders' constant warnings, i.e. "If a CP asks you where you're going, what are you going to say?" "We're trying to find the way to Baker..."