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Digging out from piles of sticky notes

Digging out from piles of sticky notes
Computer scientists devise ways to organize details of everyday life
Anne Trafton, News Office (MIT)
December 10, 2008
Everyone has them — little squares of colorful paper stuck on monitors, business cards strewn across desks, [...]

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Deciphering honeybee dances and stock market swings

Deciphering honeybee dances and stock market swings
Grad student’s model brings order to complex systems through math
Anne Trafton, News Office
December 10, 2008
What do dancing honeybees and stock markets have in common?
At first glance, not much. But both are complicated [...]

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