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<p style="padding-top: 30px;">Dear All, <br><br>
Greetings. Here’s the current edition of Said and Done, the monthly digest from MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. For the complete review and photographs, visit <a href="http://mit.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9be039b955f2b6393bc7798d7&id=cb1ce8c1b1&e=21b763b83d" title="" class="style1" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline;color: #990000;">Said and Done</a>. <br> <br>Highlights include:</p>
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Music Section | Music and Theater Arts<br>
<strong>Can computers learn music theory?</strong>
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Text searches have gotten more and more sophisticated, yet no similar tools exist for examining music. Now an advanced computer framework being developed by Michael Cuthbert in the School's Music Section promises to revolutionize the field.
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<strong>Bookshelf</strong> | Current Edition
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New knowledge and analysis
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<p class="style2" style="padding-top: 30px;color: #656565;">NEWS</p><strong>David Mindell on Obama’s NASA proposal
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In an interview with MIT News, Mindell responds to the Obama administration’s recent budget proposal for NASA. By Morgan Bettex at MIT News
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<strong>How She Danced: Elena Ruehr's String Quartets</strong><br>Performed by the Cypress String Quartet
<br>"I was enchanted with this, my first acquaintance with the music of American composer Elena Ruehr, and I think you will be, too." — Sequenza 21
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<strong>Understanding anti immigrant sentiment
</strong><br>A 2007 Pew poll found that three-quarters of U.S. citizens want to further restrict immigration. But what’s behind such strongly held views? A new public-opinion research experiment by MIT political scientist Jens Hainmueller and his Harvard colleague Michael Hiscox reveals some surprises. By Peter Dizikes at MIT News
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<strong>Nobel laureate Paul Krugman
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Former MIT Professor of Economics, Paul Krugman PhD '77, spoke to a standing-room only audience in the Stata Center about learning from our own history to help fix the economy. <br>
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<strong>Diderot's <em>Encyclopédie
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A recently opened MIT Libraries' exhibit explores one of the most important and controversial publications of the eighteenth century, Denis Diderot's <em>Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers</em>. Jeff Ravel, Associate Professor of History and Kristel Smentek, Assistant Professor of Art History, provide illumination.
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<p class="sig" style="padding-top: 30px;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10px;color: #656565;">Emily Hiestand<br>
Communication Director <br>
Office of the Dean <br>
MIT School of Humanities, <br>
Arts and Social Sciences <br>
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