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Wedding Bells Class of 2025
Hear from eight couples in the Class of 2025 who are married or engaged to be married soon.
‘Hyped Just About Right’: How the AI Boom is Reshaping Research at Harvard
As ChatGPT took the world by storm, many raised concerns about how it might help students cheat themselves out of learning. But a year and a half later, AI is changing the work of professors perhaps even more.
Renaissance Person: Mira-Rose Kingsbury Lee
The immensity of Kingsbury Lee's time commitments does not seem to weigh on her. “You’d be surprised at how much free time I have,” she says.
Harvard Dropout Avi Schiffmann is Making an AI-Powered ‘Wearable Mom’
Having once turned down a multimillion-dollar offer to monetize a Covid-19 tracking website, Avi Schiffmann now intends to “conquer” the world of wearable AI.
Fifteen Questions: Jonathan Zittrain on Social Media, AI Litigation, and CompuServe
The law professor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss AI regulation, moderating online communities, and the Applied Social Media Lab. “I’m very interested in ways to see how people can gather with a sense of shared ownership rather than a corporate patron overseeing the conversation,” Zittrain says.
Two Harvard Students, Two Contrasting Approaches to Human Augmentation
Although the two concentrators may seem to be operating in parallel, their paths are quickly diverging. Beneath the auspices of human augmentation, Cai and Nguyen have fundamentally different approaches to technology, ones that will shape their futures — and perhaps ours, too.
Adam Mastroianni’s ‘Invitation to a Secret Society’
Mastroianni’s path through science has been a waltz through the highest echelons of the academy. Now, propelled by the popularity of his blog, he is leaving the hallowed halls to chart a different path for scientists.
Fifteen Questions: Pardis Sabeti on LS1B, Computational Genetics, and Holiday Cards
Biologist Pardis C. Sabeti sat down with Fifteen Questions to talk about the famed introductory genetics class, the quirks of her lab, and being a woman in science. “A successful life is not one that is free of setbacks. It’s defined by setbacks,” she says.
ChatGPT, Cheating, and the Future of Education
Professors are grappling with whether to ban ChatGPT or let students use it. But beyond this semester, larger questions loom. Will AI simply become another tool in every cheater’s arsenal, or will it radically change what it means to learn?
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