Tag: Google

  • Nation & World

    Hyper-public spaces

    A symposium sponsored by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society explored the design of public and private spaces in the digital realm.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tracking your friends and idols

    Two Harvard undergraduates have developed a website called Newsle that tracks news of Facebook and Linked In contacts.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Oh, the humanity

    Using digitized books as a “cultural genome,” a team of researchers from Harvard, Google, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the American Heritage Dictionary, unveil a quantitative approach to centuries of trends.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

    Youngme Moon, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, says mediocrity in competition is rampant, but it’s adventurousness that spells success. Just ask Google or Apple.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    ‘Power Lunch’ comes to HBS

    CNBC show “Power Lunch” interviews Harvard M.B.A. students to gain insights into prospects for Twitter’s future business model.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    It does indeed compute

    Harvard lecturer David Malan’s introductory computer-programming class spawns an array of imaginative new applications, reflected in the annual CS 50 Fair.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Learning’s online fate

    Panel says higher education is freshened, expanded, and challenged in a networked age.

    6 minutes