Search: what NFL games are on TV tomorrow?

An example of the challenge in current search vs natural language processing: What football games are on tomorrow? I want to know: NFL vs soccer; TV schedule and channels; tomorrow is 10/30/2011; I am in PDT and would like to know TV listings in my local time; sorting by favorite team and/or team nearest to [...]

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“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

“The spark that ignited their partnership was provided by Mr. Wozniak’s mother. Mr. Wozniak had graduated from high school and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, when she sent him an article from the October 1971 issue of Esquire magazine. The article, “Secrets of the Little Blue Box,” by Ron Rosenbaum, detailed an underground [...]

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What are you reading?

Here’s a link to an RSS feed of the articles I’ve read and recommend.

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The Leisure Link’s Launch in Boston

From the The Leusure Link web site comes news of a cool event in Jamaica Plain studio of the “A Far Cry” players: The Leisure Link’s Launch in Boston: A Fundraiser for Take Back Your Time with special guest John de Graaf, National Coordinator of Take Back Your Time TBYT is a major U.S./Canadian initiative [...]

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Clayton M. Christensen’s MIT World Videos

Christensen gave a keynote address today at the World Innovation Forum, here are three talks he’s given at MIT that are available via MIT World. (MIT World has over 630 video’s of significant talks given at MIT dating back to 2001). MIT World Videos The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution to the Healthcare Crisis May [...]

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Business Insight article downloads from MIT Sloan Management Review

MIT Sloan Management Review (where I work) jointly produces a special report in the Wall Street Journal called “Business Insight”. It’s published in print and on WSJ.com & MIT SMR’s site. For further reading on topics raised in Business Insight articles we include links to work SMR has published in the past. As part of [...]

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MIT Sustainability Summit

Taking a break from the usual today and attending the MIT Sustainability Summit The MIT Sustainability Summit, Discovering New Dimensions for Growth, brings together students, engineers, business leaders, academics, environmental activists, and public servants to discuss how we can most effectively support each other as we face the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to a sustainable [...]

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Video of Shai Agassi Talking at MIT

MIT World: From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation Shai Agassi presents an ambitious and dramatic plan to create a battery run car, a system of battery switching stations, and a subscription plan for drivers to buy miles the same way we buy cell phone minutes. Agassi begins at 8 minutes in, talks ~1/2 [...]

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Vertical Farming

“There are huge advantages to feeding people who live in the city, from the city.”

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Small Can Be Big

Why Small Can Be Big SmallCanBeBig.org is a new way to help based on a simple premise: give everyone a more direct, more personal, more local and more shared way to help those in need, and big things can happen. In a single year, it costs the Commonwealth of Massachusetts $47,000 to provide shelter for [...]

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