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Jonathan King Bibliography
...Bradley P, Menke M, King J and Berger B. (2002) Predicting the Beta-helix fold from protein sequence data. J. Comp. Biol., 9(2): 261-276. Ting C, Rocap G, King J and...
From Mississippi to MIT and Beyond
...Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY. There I studied with Arnold Sparrow collecting mutational data from an experiment that flew aboard Biosatellite 2. The model system was the spider...
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
Questioning the “Mea Culpa”: Mathematically and Administratively
...deliberate manipulation of the reader, and at best a confusion of the role of Gaussian distributions in statistics. Third, I question the data that was used. The data itself is...
Vol. XXXIII No. 3January/February 2021
Task Force 2021 and Beyond – Toward “Building a Better MIT”
...these two main workstreams was the Finance and Data Workstream (chaired by Professor Glenn Ellison and MIT Controller Danielle Khoury) as well as a Legal and Ethics resource team chaired...
Vol.XXXIII No. 1September/October 2020
Gratitude for our Community’s Commitment to Reinventing MIT in the Era of Covid
At the September 16, 2020 Institute faculty meeting, I shared the image below as a way to convey the breadth of Covid-19’s impact on our mission and operations – and...
Ulrich Laemmli’s Development of SDS Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
...hands. The three of us were at the MRC to work with Aaron Klug, who was leading efforts to understand the structure of viruses through electron microscopy and image processing....
Vol.XXXVI No. 4April 2024
A Statement on Jewish Activism, Safety, and Recent Events at MIT
...were accosted by counterprotesters who projected violent imagery on a screen, yelled, pushed us, stepped on us, insulted us, and much more. We were harassed by other Jewish and Israeli...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
A Unifying Online Proposal for MIT’s Educational Mission Based on Open edX
...metadata (topic, subtopic, a one-sentence description.) and dynamic metadata (difficulty, time to complete, percentage of text reread, . . .). Together, these enable teachers to quickly find resources for replacing...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
MIT Opens Learning for Refugees
...together into yearlong virtual certificate programs. We started with the Certificate in Computer and Data Science, now in its fourth year. Last year, ReACT had nearly 2,000 applicants for its...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
My Soviet Past: Why We Need to be Vigilant About Academic Freedom
...Sixty-two percent of African Americans agree with that view as well. Next: is there any evidence that the minority students suffer? For example, is there any data showing that academic...