6 The Most Controversial Games

By increasing sales, not a game developer or publisher to insert a variety of scenes that invite controversy. So what a lot of games that invite controversy?

As quoted from Gameinformer, Friday, (20/11/2009), 6 the most controversial game that invites a lot of criticism that is: Six Days in Fallujah Game third person shooter brings players to a special operation in Iraq pernyergapan. This of course infuriated a number of citizens who are victims of war. They felt angry with the presence of gaming is besutan Atomic Games.

LittleBigPlanet
This game really is one game that is anticipated her presence, until the late emergence Sony caught using verses from the Qur'an. The use of the verses of the Qur'an in the game was not unusual, Sony confuse the words in the Koran with a musical.

Fallout 3
Fallout 3 is a game with graphics that look pretty amazing, this game tells the public life after a nuclear explosion that occurred in Washington DC. This game is actually quite popular. However, anti-terrorist organization considered that these games inspire al-Qaeda network was left to do a new attack.

Mass Effect
This game has quite often get criticism, from the gamers due to have a lot of sex scenes in it. Despite receiving much criticism, but Bioware have considered what they do in Mass Effect is still categorized within reasonable limits. Even Bioware also announced want to use a similar scene in the next game.

Resistance: Fall of Man
Tells of an alien invasion to planet Earth. It usually is, but this game focuses a war in the neighborhood church. As a result, this game certainly getting harsh criticism from the Christians.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Game is the most controversial. How could I not, from a high level of violence to the bed scene clearly in this game. Finally, at the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV, Rockstar reduce some scenes are too vulgar. Read More......

Mobile Applications Monitor Noise

A mobile phone application developed by Sony Computer Science Laboratory will help make the environment more peaceful and far from noise pollution.

Nicolas Maisonneuve from Sony's labs in France and his team have developed a software application that can be downloaded named NoiseTube. NoiseTube use of smartphone users, to monitor the noise pollution that occurred in its place. "His goal is to make the phone as environmental sensors," said Masionneuve.

Initially this application works with a microphone to record sound through the phone. User then prompted to label the tape that they had to gather information such as sound source, before it is sent to the server NoiseTube.

Once the data is labeled with the name of the street and the city, this data is then converted by a software center in a format that can be used in Google Earth. Software in this server would then mark the location of which was considered noisy, with a danger label.

DetikINET of Newscientis launched on Friday (20/11/2009), so far the application can only operate in the smartphone of Sony Ericsson and Nokia. But like many people who are interested in the applications 'environment of love' is. Read More......

Found, Oldest Spider Net

Fine net spider made about 140 million years ago was found preserved in amber. Nets are found in Sussex, England, was preserved when the sap of resin before it hardens and wet stone. In the same stone was also found in the rest of the plant, insect droppings, and ancient microbes.

"This is a spider web of the oldest ever found by our fossil record," said researcher Martin Brasier of Oxford University, Saturday (31/10).

Brasier and colleagues using a computerized technique called confocal microscopy to reconstruct and examine the net and knot. Some things, including the nodes which are connected using a sticky fluid, indicates that the net was made by a spider that is related to spiders modern garden.

"This spider is also placed along the sticky nets to trap their prey," Brasier said. "The remains of the sticky liquid come preserved in amber.

The analysis of these nets also provide clues about the food of spiders. I think, based on web forms, this animal preys on flying insects such as flies and bees ancestors, wasps, and beetles, "Brasier said.

In 2006, the researchers found cobwebs are also preserved in amber. He was about 136 million years. Read More......

Robot Okonomiyaki - cooking Robot

Japan creates endless robots that can assist human task. Last innovation is the robot cooker. As the name implies, a robot named Robot Okonomiyaki can cook bread unique to Japan, Okonomiyaki. Robots are very good at cooking to serving.

Was so expert, he can do all the details of the process of mixing the ingredients in a bowl, pour it into the hot pan, turning the dish to be cooked evenly, and serve it on a plate. He also can directly present the results of food with two hands and even offered to bring additional flavor or type of sauce you want.

The ability is demonstrated in the International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition in Tokyo, Tuesday (9 / 6). Okonomiyaki is a robot made by Toyo Riki Co., a robot designer company in Osaka. Read More......

DNA Can Motivate Ourself

Deoxyribunucleic Acid (DNA) has always been known to identify lineages. In fact, DNA not only can be learned from the medical side. Psychologist Miriati, Psi, express, DNA can also be highlighted from the science of Psychology. What are the benefits? Apparently, the DNA can be optimized to generate your own potential. Want to know, how to activate the DNA?

How to enable DNA to potential?

There are several ways to activate the DNA. Miriati explained, at least there 6 positive character can be grown in every individual. First, open up to absorb a broad perspective. Broad insights will stimulate desire. Second, the desire or dreams, can generate positive energy in yourself.

Not only from yourself, can also turn distimulus DNA from the surrounding environment. The third way, inspiring moments encountered.

"One can rely on his own with what is in him. Everywhere, we can inspire the origin of life presents consciousness so that we can make sense of an event," he said.

Fourth, always think positive, grab it first and do it! That is, always thinking positive for any new opportunities. And fifth, always doing exercises that continuous activation of the DNA will be generated spontaneously and positive implications for the potential.

Miriati also warned, if you have a dream or desire, share with the people who are believed to be able to give encouragement. Positive encouragement would spur obtained active DNA. "Do not tell the same people who have not been put before your spirit," said Miriati. Read More......

"Yahoo Go" is Gone

Finally, a mobile portal Yahoo Go now 'deceased'. In exchange, Yahoo will expand Yahoo Mobile homepage, which has been introduced since the beginning of this year.

"Yahoo! Will abolish Yahoo! Go 2.0 and 3.0, and develop the mobile experience more pleasant such as Yahoo! Mobile homepage," wrote Yahoo in an official statement received VIVAnews Friday, November 20, 2009.

Yahoo Go is a portal service for mobile devices, to access the various features on Yahoo, ranging from e-mail, contact, calendar, photos, and search engines.

Yahoo Go was first introduced in the event the Consumer Electronics Show 2006 in Las Vegas. In 2007, Yahoo and Taiwanese vendor HTC phone, working together to introduce Yahoo Go 2.0 and Yahoo Go on Windows Mobile platform

Recently Yahoo released a version 3.0 and Yahoo finally decided to focus on the Yahoo Mobile homepage. Yahoo Mobile own page now comes with the updated content dynamically with pagination, RSS reader that has been perfected.

Yahoo Mobile currently supports photos, and able to see more headlines from your favorite feeds, without the need to update the content.

Through the Yahoo Mobile homepage, users can directly access the e-mail from multiple accounts, access-site social networking sites like Facebook or a photo to Flickr.

Today, these services are available through multiple platforms, such as RIM, Microsoft Windows Mobile, and Nokia. According to Yahoo, Yahoo Mobile services can now be used on more than 1900 kinds of mobile devices on the market. Read More......

Google Acquires Gizmo5 VoIP

The news about Google's acquisition of the company Gizmo5 was no secret this week. The reason Google reportedly recently officially announced that it has acquired Gizmo5. And Gizzmo5 itself is a small company that provides service-based VoIP calls to the phone and computer.

In connection with that, Google expects the engineers will all Gizmo5 will soon join the Google Voice team. Google Voice is a call forwarding service based Internet which allows people to use one central number and have their own phone ringing on their choices.

Google does not say what features or technologies that will be adopted from Gizmo5 to Google in the near future. However, the addition of VoIP calls Google Voice products are a strong possibility that the adoption of the reference target.

In addition, the existence of Gizmo5 subscribers will still be able to continue using their services so far, but no new users will be allowed to register now. The provisions of the agreement were not known so far. Read More......

Facebook Mobile Now Overcome Confusion

Today's virtual world rang with the presence of various social networking websites. Facebook one of them. You may also include users of social networking services that are leading the currently rising fame.

This time we are not in the mood to talk about one of the latest features or what new sophistication offered by Facebook. Oddity but something that happened today (11/10/09) on the Facebook Mobile service, which is usually when you use the Indonesian language in Facebook Mobile, you'll be presented with menus such as Home, Profile, Friends and Inbox on the menu top under the logo Facebook. But next day, Facebook is now reportedly being hit by confusion.

If you're observant, you can see the difference when writing the menu that should somehow be Home made "hit confusion", this certainly sounds pretty weird and if that really happened, what it was error in the machine so that the translation of Facebook Mobile Home Home should be made "overcome confusion", it finally took effect, where the number of Facebook users are also experiencing the confusion that echoed in the status of their current status. Whether this is just a funny-persiflage conducted by a team of Facebook or something, which must be traced back if there was no change in features or bugs in it only the text that's weird.

Until now there is still no clarity of what really happened and pray for Facebook team may be aware of this oddity. Facebook lovers thus no longer affected by confusion, certainly. Read More......

eBay specifically for rich people

Human beings were created with different fate. There are rich and others poor. Yes that's life always kept spinning. Along with the rapid development of the Internet with a variety of different user lives from various circles, recently has been present for the rich community known as BillionaireXchange. This site has become the online auction and trading site reserved for the wealthy (billionaires).

BillionaireXchange still a clear need to ensure that people who are not interested do not sneak in and contaminate their beautiful site, so the company has what they call easy, but imposed strict process to qualify and / or elements that are not desirable.

Enrollment process has one or two things that might be spelled out rather complicated. As an initial guarantee to be a member of this rich site, one of which eBay just wanted to know whether the prospective members have the card or American Express Centurion Black VISA Card. Also, keep in mind how large a net worth of the prospective members. And for those who have a minimum net worth nominally 500,000 USD (5 billion dollars) will immediately become a member, while if the opposite is eBay still will do further testing process.

There is quite a list of items that have been sold. For example, reportedly a bottle of Remy Martin Cognac Louis XIII Black Pearl 1.7 only, so far appreciated for 24,999 USD or around 250 million rupiah. Wow, a fantastic price for a bottle of expensive liquor. Um, you interested?! Read More......

Apple Trying to Ban Atomic Reversing Snow Leopard

Apple reportedly has been restored support for Intel Atom processor in the latest Snow Leopard build.

"Atom seems to have resurrected his own style of zombie 10C535", which has confirmed a posting on the Steel's Blog. "Atom is living on another day, but nothing is concrete until the final version [Snow Leopard] 10.6.2 came out."

Not surprisingly, the ban Atom rampant speculation that triggered a short time that Apple is trying to close the rapidly growing community of Hackintosh Netbook.

For example, a reader of a newspaper there, known as the Los argue that Apple is only interested in forcing consumers to buy expensive hardware.

"This is the same as Palm Pre. Palm find their phone works with iTunes and Apple is now blocking the Palm Pre latest updates on iTunes. They're like a bunch of selfish kids, "wrote the Los. "It [is] another reason why I do not like Apple or their OS. I looked at Apple as 'Computing For Dummies' too. Most people I know bought from Apple for 2 reasons 1 there is: one of them seems to fit because they are different or because they do not know what they are doing and need a very simple OS. "

While what is disclosed other readers, which also spread Johnnyricomc similar sentiments.

"For me, this is just a small effort by Apple to control things. Microsoft will get a **** storm if they wanted to do something similar to the Apple brand hardware. "

Although the latest Snow Leopard build that supports the Atom processor (for now), Apple certainly will continue the efforts to prevent the spread of OS X on hardware that is "not valid". Read More......

NASA denied the Resurrection in 2012

LONDON - A Hollywood movie titled '2012 'has attracted the attention of citizens of the world. The reason is, a prediction that was circulating on the internet said the same thing, that the world and all its contents will end in that year.

In fact, Big News Network was launched on Wednesday (11/11/2009), some emails that spread among the internet users have accused the U.S. space agency (NASA) to cover up the truth about the condition of the planet Earth today. But NASA has denied these allegations and considers the news only 'hoax'.

NASA itself was not yet sure if the end would happen in the year 2012. The reason is, if the predictions are saying will happen collision between the earth with other planets in our solar system, surely the world's astronomers can predict the previous decades. Even before the crash occurs, there are a few planets and close to the earth can be seen with the naked eye because it is getting closer to the earth.

"The scientists and astronomers of the world would have the same answer, that they have not seen signs of doom will occur in 2012," said the NASA. Moreover, continued the NASA, the planet Earth is still in good condition although it has been aged for more than four million years.

This theory could doom rose and mention of Resurrection will occur in May 2003. But when the theory is not proven, end dates and then changed to December 21, 2012, coinciding with the solstice events contained in the ancient calendar of the Maya. NASA was still insisting that the ancient Mayan calendar does not mean that the world would end on that date. Even NASA does not detect any planetary alignment in space in the decades ahead.

"Despite the alignment of planets in there, as he had predicted, the effect was still able to avoid," said the NASA. Read More......

Spider Bot Toys

For some people, the spider is a scary beast, especially if the shape of animals large and black, impressed a spider poisonous.

Although existing Spiderman movie that makes us admire the hero figure of the spider, but if you are confronted by a robot that looks like the above, chances are you chilling to stand for shock.

Though just a robot and do not sting, spider bot was created as a horror game. This robot is driven by a micro controller Axon, which makes this small robot capable of carrying 2 times the weight of his body. Applications used on this robot said to be free, this application also allows movement of the robot spider that can be synchronized to move six feet at the same time as the original spider. Additional features to the next was to put sensors in the feet and connect to the remote control.

According to the forum Trossen Robotics, this robot was created as a new toy and will be ready to be distributed next year. Well, it looks like this robot would be a weapon for the bad boys ya later. Read More......

3G For The World

The development of technology and 3G networks have been able to change the world of telecommunications. 3G gives the appearance of fresh and fulfill its function in improving the quality of telecommunications, increased bandwidth and supports a variety of more diverse applications.

Qualcomm and a telecommunications industry research institution named Pyramid Research and discuss about the development of 3G technology in developing countries, particularly Asia Pacific.

In an official statement received Qualcomm Okezone, found some interesting things about this third-generation technology.

Qualcomm findings and Pyramid mention that 3G is the potential to be the new standard of wireless networks in developing countries. This prediction is not without reason. So, now the government in developing countries began to think that providing more coverage of broadband and voice services standard facilities and the message becomes a very important thing.

In addition, the spectrum licenses would help the government find new revenue sources. This is also supported by a growing number of inexpensive handsets. Some vendors come from China even able to produce 3G devices at low cost.

These findings also mention the expansion of 3G customer segments. At the beginning of the emergence of 3G, operators are targeting the customers who come from upper middle class. But now, the consumer 3G services is more extensive and can be enjoyed by all those who came from among the young.

But unfortunately, the growth of 3G network users are not matched well with the quality of the network itself. The results of a survey conducted mention Qualcomm and Pyramid, the need for content and other services are still not fulfilled its full potential. This was due to the limited development of infrastructure and distribution network, particularly in remote areas.

That is why, the operators are advised to develop their own 3G networks to ensure the fulfillment of the needs of a larger capacity. They also must continue to increase their involvement in the development of devices and services. That way, these steps can help them in maintaining and improving customer loyalty in the service.

The role of government is also very important in applying the basis for the growth of 3G networks such as by providing 3G networks capable of providing greater capacity, providing adequate incentives and tools for developers, as well as pushing the price reduction for the content and services. Read More......

Google Dashboard

More trying to convince, recently Google has launched a new feature that allows users to view personal data stored, and to control or remove some.

Google Dashboard summarizes the data for each product and provide consumers with a direct link to control personal settings. Users will be able to see a summary of their email, search queries, and so on in one place.

This dashboard includes more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader and Alerts.

"The scale and level of detail Dashboard unprecedented, and we are pleased to become the first Internet company to offer this - and we hope this will become the standard," Google said.

Of course there is a good chance that when the user actually see how much Google's watching them, and they will not find it particularly convincing. Read More......

Large meteor explosion in the Netherlands

Hundreds of people in the Netherlands and Germany reported seeing a fireball shot across the sky at dusk, around 7 o'clock local time.
Robert Mikaelyan amateur photographers to get pictures of rare when a large fireball exploded in the sky. The incident happened shortly after he came out to take photos of the old sugar factory Netherlands.

Mikaelyan managed to get a picture a few shots of the fireball swinging low over the northern city of Groningen, before finally breaking into pieces smaller.

"I suddenly saw the light in the sky came quickly ... and rushed to get a picture," said Mikaelyan.

A few seconds after the fireball had been seen, the witness heard an explosion followed by a low rumble that shook the windows.

The object is most likely the space rock that shattered after hitting the earth's atmosphere, said experts who also speculated that the pieces of the meteor may land on the North Sea.

"This is a big event," said Theo Jurriens, the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen.

At present the earth constantly bombarded by debris smaller than comets, asteroids, and even the other rocky planets in the solar system.

But the ball of fire with such size and bright light may be visible only every 20 to 25 years, Jurriens estimate. Read More......

End of The World On 2012 ?

Sony Pictures created a site called the Sustainability Institute that predicts human catastrophe on earth happened three years from now.

Institute was declared "after two decades of research astronomer, mathematician, geologist, physicist, engineer, futurist, now we know that in 2012 a series of great power will wreak havoc on our planet".

Even the site explains, how the election after the 2102 world leader, offers a survival kit and ask people to sign up for a lottery to be saved.

But this website is a vehicle to promote disaster movie about the end of the world in 2012 based on the Mayan calendar prediction.

The movie starring John Cusack and directed by Roland Emmerich, who was behind the blockbuster movie Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. The film contains scenes of tsunami slammed into the mother ship White House and Los Angeles became the ocean.

According to the website that the scientists have managed to track down Planet X by a previously unknown, and is located on the edge of the solar system and on track to hit Earth.

Dr David Morrison, senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute said he has received more than 1,000 questions from community members concerned.

There's even a teenager who said they would rather kill myself than watch the end of the world. Dr Morrison said the site was "ethically wrong". Read More......

What is the biggest threat in the world today? If you answered swine flu or bird flu, a big one ..

Medical journal The Lancet and the researchers from University College London, UK, concluded that climate change is the biggest global health threat in the 21st century.
They agreed, public health services also have to adapt. What to do? Apparently, the world adapt to the increasingly warmer temperatures. This is the key to global health infrastructure improvements. Because many diseases are affected by the global climate. For example the series of viruses that is currently more vivid.

"We must act immediately to save billions
lives. We try to spread this message throughout the world, "said climatological Lecturer University College London (UCL), Mark Maslin, as reported by the BBC.
Researchers agreed to emphasize the issue of carbon mitigation and explain in more detail how the global climate change affects the health of the world. They intend to voice this message to the more vocal to the politicians and policy makers. "We must make a priority now. What we do will be very influential. Start of conference calls on climate change issues, writing, collecting evidence, and much more. Change your policy through science," said Lancet editor Richard Horton.

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Sosrobahu technique

Sosrobahu technique is a construction technique that is used mainly to play the shoulders of concrete road layang arm and found by Tjokorda RAKA Sukawati. With this technique, arms roads "layang" placed parallel to the street below, and then rotated 90 ° so that the development does not disrupt the flow of traffic on the streets below.

This technique is considered very helpful in making "layang" roads in big cities in the obvious constraints that have limited space given to the city, especially during the construction and operation of infrastructure development should not disrupt the activities of the community, particularly traffic flow and the vehicle can not be stopped only because of the way.

In the 1980s, Jakarta is already experiencing traffic congestion problems, build roads "layang" many as one of the solutions to improve traffic infrastructure. As a contractor at the time, PT. Hutama order to get a paper road on the road pass by A. Yani where development should ensure that the road should still work.

With the problems, the directors discussed Hutama paper after layang order to build the road between Tanjung Priok Cawang until around 1987. Diurai complex issues, which needed to sustain the body the way it is aligning concrete pole, the other one is 30 meters, on top of concrete pillar selebar extends 22 meters. Trunk vertical (Pier shaft) hexagon-shaped ribbed middle 4 meters, standing in the median. This is not difficult, the most difficult thing is fill the arms with cement (Pier head). If the conventional way, which is done is install iron buffer (bekesting) under the arms exposition, but it will clog bekesting road below. Another way is by hanging bekesting but costs more expensive.

When Tjokorda improve kendaraannya, nose-made Mercedes cars in 1974 was appointed with his jack, so the two rear wheels rest on the floor because of the slippery oil spillage ceceran accidentally. Once the car is left out, rotate the body of the car with a jack shaft axis. One thing he recorded, in the science of physics to negate moving style, objects as heavy any will be easy to move. Gen. earlier provide inspiration hydraulic pump that can be used to lift heavy objects, and when is based on a slippery surface, things are easy to move. Shade Tjokorda friction arm is 480 tons of concrete seberat it.

Tjokorda then create an experiment to create the linear cylinder 20 cm, are made as a hydraulic jack and load concrete seberat be 80 tons. The result can be lifted and can rotate a bit but can not get off when removed. Is in fact a jack sloping position. Tjokorda then to improve it. Its position is determined exactly in center of gravity arm on top of concrete.

To create a design that fit, basic primary law Pascal says: "When the liquid in a closed space given pressure, the pressure will be all the way." Liquid oil is used oil (lubricant). When pressure P is inserted in the space of A, it will rise to the style (F) of P multiplied A. The formula is combined with a few parameters and gives the name of Sukawati formula, according to his name. This formula original idea because until that time there were no books for membahasnya not have needs.

Another problem that appears to have mempengaruhinya variables, including type of oil that is used that should not be damaged kekentalannya (viskositas). Affairs of oil into the oil because this is crucial to continue the pressure to lift the weight of the concrete.
1. Build a pillar of the road.
2. Arms concrete road built in the path between two streets, a street parallel with the solid underneath.
3. Concrete way of playing arm by 90 degrees. Layang any way and then built on this arm.

After all finished, Tjokorda the final draft of a platform play for concrete arm named Platform Play Free barriers (LBPH). Two disc shaped (discoid) iron ribbed middle 80 cm of each other menangkup. Although the thickness 5 cm, plates of cast iron FCD-50 is capable of holding 625 tons burden.

Into the space between the two disc dipompakan oil is oil. A seal (cover) rubber insulate the cavity between the edge of the iron plates to keep the oil is not pushed out, although in the high pressure. Through small pipes, oil in tangkupan plate is connected with a hydraulic pompoa. Hydraulic system that is able to lift the load when the load is given 78 kg/cm2 pressure. This figure is in fact a number of mystery Tjokorda at that time. Read More......

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MIT is chartered as a non-profit organization and is owned and governed by a privately-appointed board of trustees known as the MIT Corporation. The current board, with 74 members drawn from scientific, engineering, industry, education, and public service leaders, is chaired by Dana G. Mead. The corporation approves the budget, new programs, degrees, and faculty appointments as well as electing the President to serve as the chief executive officer of the university and presiding over the Institute's faculty. Susan Hockfield is the 16th president and has served since December 2004.[53] MIT's endowment and other financial assets are managed through a subsidiary MIT Investment Management Company (MITIMCo). Valued at $10.068 billion in 2008, MIT's endowment is the sixth-largest among American colleges and universities.

The university historically pioneered research collaborations between industry and government. Fruitful collaborations with industrialists like Alfred P. Sloan and Thomas Alva Edison led President Compton to establish an Office of Corporate Relations and an Industrial Liaison Program in the 1930s and 1940s that now allows over 600 companies to license research and consult with MIT faculty and researchers. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, American politicians and business leaders accused MIT and other universities of contributing to a declining economy by transferring taxpayer-funded research and technology to international —especially Japanese— firms that were competing with struggling American businesses.

MIT's extensive collaboration with the federal government on research projects has also lead to several MIT leaders serving as Presidential scientific advisers since 1940. MIT established a Washington Office in 1991 to continue to lobby for research funding and national science policy. In response to MIT, eight Ivy League colleges, and 11 other institutions holding "Overlap Meetings" to prevent bidding wars over promising students from consuming funds for need-based scholarships, the Justice Department began an antitrust investigation in 1989 and in 1991 filed an antitrust suit against these universities. While the Ivy League institutions settled, MIT contested the charges on the grounds that the practice was not anticompetitive because it ensured the availability of aid for the greatest number of students. MIT ultimately prevailed when the Justice Department dropped the case in 1994.

MIT's 168-acre (0.7 km2) Cambridge campus spans approximately a mile of the north side of the Charles River basin. The campus is divided roughly in half by Massachusetts Avenue, with most dormitories and student life facilities to the west and most academic buildings to the east. The bridge closest to MIT is the Harvard Bridge, which is marked off in a non-standard unit of length – the smoot (named for Oliver R. Smoot, later Chairman of the American National Standards Institute, the length of a Smoot is five feet and seven inches (1701 mm) , equal to Oliver's height). The Kendall MBTA Red Line station is located on the far northeastern edge of the campus in Kendall Square. The Cambridge neighborhoods surrounding MIT are a mixture of high tech companies occupying both modern office and rehabilitated industrial buildings as well as socio-economically diverse residential neighborhoods.

MIT is a large, highly residential, majority graduate/professional research university. The four year, full-time undergraduate instructional program is classified as "balanced arts & sciences/professions" with a high graduate coexistence and admissions are characterized as "more selective, lower transfer in". The graduate program is classified as "comprehensive". The university is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

Several rankings place MIT among the top colleges and universities in the United States and internationally. The School of Engineering has been ranked first among graduate and undergraduate programs by U.S. News and World Report since first published results in 1994. A 1995 National Research Council study of US research universities ranked MIT first in "reputation" and fourth in "citations and faculty awards" and a 2005 study found MIT to be the 4th most preferred college among undergraduate applicants.

In 2007, MIT spent $598.3 million for on-campus research. The federal government was the largest source of sponsored research, with the Department of Health and Human Services granting $201.6 million, Department of Defense $90.6 million, Department of Energy $64.9 million, National Science Foundation $65.1 million, and NASA $27.9 million. MIT employs approximately 3,500 researchers in addition to faculty. In the 2006 academic year, MIT faculty and researchers disclosed 487 inventions, filed 314 patent applications, received 149 patents, and earned $129.2 million in royalties and other income.

In electronics, magnetic core memory, radar, single electron transistors, and inertial guidance controls were invented or substantially developed by MIT researchers. Harold Eugene Edgerton was a pioneer in high speed photography. Claude E. Shannon developed much of modern information theory and discovered the application of Boolean logic to digital circuit design theory. In the domain of computer science, MIT faculty and researchers made fundamental contributions to cybernetics, artificial intelligence, computer languages, machine learning, robotics, and public-key cryptography.

FACULTY

MIT has 1008 faculty members, of whom 195 are women and 172 are minorities.Faculty are responsible for lecturing classes, advising both graduate and undergraduate students, and sitting on academic committees, as well as conducting original research. 25 MIT faculty members have won the Nobel Prize. Among current and former faculty members, there are 51 National Medal of Science and Technology recipients, 80 Guggenheim Fellows, 6 Fulbright Scholars, 29 MacArthur Fellows, 5 Dirac Medal winners, 5 Wolf Prize winners, and 4 Kyoto Prize winners. Faculty members who have made extraordinary contributions to their research field as well as the MIT community are granted appointments as Institute Professors for the remainder of their tenures.

A 1998 MIT study concluded that a systemic bias against female faculty existed in its college of science, although the study's methods were controversial. Since the study, women have headed departments within the Schools of Science and Engineering, and MIT has appointed five female vice presidents, although allegations of sexism continue to be made.[224] Susan Hockfield, a molecular neurobiologist, became MIT's 16th president in 2004 and is the first woman to hold the post.

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