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[Emily Hiestand]

Dear All,

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 [1]Said and Done.
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Highlights include:

RESEARCH PORTFOLIO





Music Section | Music and Theater Arts
_Can computers learn music theory?_




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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_Bookshelf_ | Current Edition 




New knowledge and analysis

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NEWS
_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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_How She Danced: Elena Ruehr's String Quartets_
Performed by the Cypress String Quartet
"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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_Understanding anti immigrant sentiment
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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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MULTIMEDIA







_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.
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_Diderot's 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
_Encyclopédie,  ou  Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des
métiers_. Jeff Ravel, Associate Professor of History and Kristel Smentek,
Assistant Professor of Art History, provide illumination. 


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