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AI as Cancer Oracle?
… Computational biologist Chris Sander and other scientists have developed a method for using artificial intelligence to identify people at high risk of pancreatic cancer, solely from national health records. … a risk factor appeared in a patient’s medical record of symptoms and diagnoses, but when it appeared in the …
Issue: May-June 2024
The Sage of Tree Frog Lane
… In 1970, his bestselling book, The Pursuit of Loneliness, made Philip Slater ’50, Ph.D. … the Breaking Point,” the book developed a searing critique of American culture, describing many of its ills—violence, …
Issue: March-April 2013
The Water Tamer
… In the little town of 5,000 where he now lives, John Briscoe holds the exalted title “master of the Todd Pond dam,” a tiny impoundment. He uses this role …
Issue: January-February 2012
A Multiverse of Might-Have-Beens
… There’s something otherworldly about watching a plane land at Boston Logan Airport. The wheels graze the coast of Boston, mere inches from the cobalt Atlantic Ocean, … the tarmac. In daylight, the blood-orange sunbeams bounce off the water. The plane growls to a halt. When I touched …
Harvard Study: For Cost-effectiveness, Treat Half of U.S. Adults with Statins
… a major risk factor for heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States. A new study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that statins, a class of …
Five Medal of Freedom Honorands
… President Barack Obama J.D.’91 conferred the Medal of Freedom on 16 people at a White House ceremony … as he continued to fight brain cancer and mourned the death of his sister Eunice Shriver; his Harvard honorary degree …
Caroline Buckee: Can Mobile-phone Data Help Control the Spread of the Coronavirus?
… Can cellphone technologies play a role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic? Knowing how public health policies … population-level view, can help guide the decisions of leaders. Mobile phone location data can reveal large-scale patterns of activity and travel between regions. In this episode, …
Off the Shelf
… , by Wendy Lesser ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). The founding editor of The Threepenny Review , addressing “the serious pleasure … steps through the modern era—what the subtitle labels “the rise and fall of U.S. intervention to protect American …
Issue: January-February 2014
Neural-Network Pioneer Yann LeCun on AI and Physics
… The machine-learning revolution has touched every area of … consequences of his work, even as public scrutiny of AI rises. A Loeb lecture that delves into morality would be …
Class Day Speaker for the Harvard College Class of 2008 Announced
… Ben S. Bernanke ’75 will serve as Class Day speaker for the Harvard College Class of 2008, addressing the graduating seniors and their guests … afternoon, June 4, in Tercentenary Theatre. Read the official announcement . … Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben …
The Richness of Nature at Large
… Editor’s note: Spencer Lenfield ’12 reported on the unique loan of Itō Jakuchū’s magnificent works to the National Gallery … this is his dispatch. The 30 paintings that comprise the mid-eighteenth-century Japanese painter Itō …
Off the Shelf
… St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography, by Philip Freeman, Ph.D. '94 (Simon … and Schuster, $24). It's a pious fiction that Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. But the truth about the … crafted with an eye to both function and fine art surprise and delight. The chest below, by a Cantabrigian, is in …
Issue: March-April 2004
Harvard University’s 368th Commencement Exercises
… students, Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed … Exercises this spring. To accommodate the increasing number of people planning to attend, we ask that any interested … of the ceremony the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: March-April 2019
Convocation Welcomes Classes of 2024 and 2025 to Campus
… Two College classes, together for the first time, celebrated their convocations on … them to a fully re-opened Harvard. The Class of 2025 is larger than usual, and includes a number of students who deferred enrollment last year amid the …
Lydialyle Gibson , Nancy Walecki
The Boy’s Dilemma
… The idea that boys like to play with guns while girls prefer … Arkansas, and Colorado. Not one perpetrator in this string of schoolyard shootings has been female. It's not the presence of gun play in the lives of boys that causes real-life …