Students tackle Harvard Square parking problems

70652986 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:12:33 -0400

A group of students who studied parking problems in Harvard Square issued wide-ranging recommendations, including installing wireless access-control gates at the more than 50 lots across the University, increasing parking fees in Cambridge coupled with increased enforcement of permits, establishing satellite parking lots and shuttles to encourage people to park there, and installing robotic - instead of conventional - garages in new construction projects. The robotic garages were perhaps the students' most interesting proposal. The robotic garages, though little used in the United States, are everyday technology in many other countries, with thousands in use in Asia and Europe.

Exploring big and small possibilities of the information revolution

70652986 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:11:11 -0400

" ‘System-on-a-chip' is the new buzzword today," said Professor Woodward Yang in 1999. "It's really not that far away." As Yang sees it, the computer revolution is really just beginning. Systems are poised to become smaller, more portable, and found everywhere from traditional desktops to cell phones and pagers. Yang in 1999 said researchers are close to putting a billion transistors on a chip – a thousandfold increase since the early 1990s – something that, even a few years ago, seemed impossible. The advance means entire systems on a single chip are becoming feasible for the first time, meaning devices like cellular phones, pagers, and personal digital assistants will be able to do things like scan, manipulate documents, and send them electronically.

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Students tackle Harvard Square parking problems

Exploring big and small possibilities of the information revolution