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January 17, 2022 Singapore among earliest countries to accept Omicron not threatening nationally: Professor Fisher
Singapore is one of the earliest countries to accept that Omicron is not threatening nationally because a large proportion of the population is vaccinated, said Professor Dale Fisher, senior consultant at the National University Hospital’s Division of Infectious Diseases. “Singapore is realising the strategy of Covid resilience, such that as new variants arise, they can […]
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NEWS 
November 19, 2016 Harvard Professor Hassles Mom and Pop Over $4 Overcharge
What happens when you overcharge a Harvard Business School professor for Chinese food? Ran Duan, manager of the Baldwin Bar inside the Sichuan Garden, a mom and pop Chinese restaurant, recently discovered the unpleasant answer. Ben Edelman, an associate professor at Harvard, ordered from the local restaurant. But upon delivery, he found that the prices […]
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ELECTRONICS 
May 24, 2016 Regina Barzilay named Delta Electronics Professor
Regina Barzilay has been appointed the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. The appointment recognizes Barzilay’s leadership in the area of human language technologies and her outstanding mentorship and educational contributions. “Professor Barzilay is internationally known in the fields of natural language processing and computational linguistics, and is widely respected […]
