scholarly journals The Free Range

2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (03) ◽  
pp. 26-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert LaMarca
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Machine Tools ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Market Penetration ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Low Emission ◽  
The World ◽  
Institute Of Technology

This article discusses various aspects of open-source product development. The open-source business definition is the development of a product using components that are not restricted in their use by others. Open source is still novel in the world of mechanical engineering. In software, however, its influence has been quite pervasive, both at the corporate and individual levels. Influence of open source has begun to be felt in publishing, the sciences, and education. According to a professional mechanical engineer, an open-source low-emission car is another possible project. Samir Nayfeh, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, briefly investigated open source in the late 1990s, and expects that it would appeal to buyers in markets like machine tools, where customers do not like being locked into a vendor. The current market penetration of open source owes a great deal to individuals who would participate for their own reasons, sometimes for a moral idea, or for inclusion in a community of their professional peers, or to develop better skills.

Alignment Charts

1921 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-178
Keyword(s):  
Close Contact ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
World War ◽  
Graphical Solution ◽  
Industrial Cooperation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Institute Of Technology

The subject of nomographic or alignment charts has received considerable attention during the last few years. Although its value as a time and labor saving device is so evident, still it has taken almost a generation since its inception by the French engineer and mathematician, M. D’Ocagne, before the American engineer has sought to profit by it. The world war brought our ordnance engineers in contact with the French engineers, and the former have learned how the latter apply the principles underlying the alignment chart to the graphical solution of some of their problems in ballistics and allied subjects. Today, some of our manufacturers are becoming interested in these charts, and the “Department of Industrial Cooperation and Research” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is in close contact with over two hundred of these firms, has received many requests for alignment chart solutions of various simple problems which have arisen in their shop work. These solutions, because of their simplicity, can be used by the workmen in the shop with considerable facility and little chance of error.

scholarly journals Confirmed cases and deaths by COVID-19: A comparison among the BRICS countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Santiago Dias ◽  
Ana Paula Verona
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The World ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Using Data

This work seeks to compare the number of confirmed cases and deaths caused by COVID-19 among the BRICS member countries using data from Johns Hopkins University. The situation experienced by the BRICS is worrying. Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa are among the five countries with the highest number of confirmed cases. Special attention should be given to Brazil, which ranks in second place regarding to the number of confirmed cases in the world. In addition, India will have the highest number of infections in March 2021, according to projections of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-168
Keyword(s):  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The World ◽  
Industrial Performance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Mesopotamia ◽  
Institute Of Technology

Michael Bikard of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER reviews “The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times” edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Eighteen papers examine the history of entrepreneurship throughout the world since antiquity. Papers discuss global enterprise and industrial performance--an overview; entrepreneurs--from the Near Eastern takeoff to the Roman collapse; Neo-Babylonian entrepreneurs; the scale of entrepreneurship in Middle….”

scholarly journals The regional concept of Zhang Jian

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
Wu Tinghai
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
World Society ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Institute Of Technology

The author obtained both his Bachelors degree in Economic Geography and Urban & Rural Planning, and his Masters degree in Human Geography from the Department of Geography, NanjingUniversity, Nanjing, P.R. China, and his Ph.D in Urban Planning and Design from the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, where he is currently Associate Professor of Architecture, acting as both Teacher and Researcher on Urban Geography and Regional Planning as well as on the history and culture of cities and regions. Based on personal research efforts or in collaboration with Professor Wu Liangyong for whom Dr Wu Tinghai acted as a research and teaching assistant, he has dealt with research on: Regional Innovative Milieu; Physical Support and Institutional Design; Regional Form Affected by Large-scale Infrastructure Construction; Spatial Development Planning for Beijing; Rural and Urban Spatial Development Planning for Greater Beijing Region; and Spatial Development Planning for Xuzhou inJiangsu Province. His publications include, among others, A Geographical Study on Urban Spatial Development in Western-Zhou Dynasty and The Regional Concept in the Study of the History of Chinese Cities. Two of his works which received high distinction in National Academic Thesis Competitions for Young Planners in China were published in the Urban Planning Review, UK in 1997 and 2001. In recent years, Dr Wu Tinghai has been a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, UK; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA; and Dortmund University, Germany. He is also a member of the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows was made available to participants at the international symposion on "Globalization and LocalIdentity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005, which Dr Wu Tinghai was finally unable to attend.

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1263-1264
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Trust Measurement ◽  
As If

Frank Levy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology reviews “The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy As If the Future Matters” by Diane Coyle. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Explores how to ensure that government policy and the actions of individuals and private businesses serve the world better in the long term and considers how to make sure that achievements in the present don't come at the expense of the future. Discusses happiness; nature; posterity; fairness; trust; measurement; values; institutions; and the manifesto of enough. Coyle runs Enlightenment Economics, a consulting firm specializing in technology and globalization. Index.”

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