The Writers: Orna Feldman

Pablo Boczkowski, an assistant professor at the Sloan School of Management, is the author of
Spring 2005

Digitizing the News

Prof. Pablo Boczkowski recently wrote “Digitizing the News,” a new book that investigates how daily newspapers in America have entered the online world.

Democracy and freedom are coming to business –– and it’s all because of technology, says Prof. Tom Malone of the Sloan School, who has written, The Future of Work, a new book that details how technology is changing the workplace –– including a time when employees will actually vote on who will be their boss. Photo: Ed Quinn
Fall 2004

Change at Work

Prof. Tom Malone says technology is changing the workplace – including a time when employees will actually vote on who will be their boss.

Grad student Solomon Assefa co-founded the MIT Africa Internet Technology Initiative (AITI), a student-run program that sends MIT students to teach Internet skills to African students and teachers. The program has sent 30 MIT students to Kenya, Ethiopia, and Ghana over the past five years and reached about 500 students and 30 teachers in Africa. Photo: Ed Quinn
Spring 2004

Teaching Technology

Grad student Solomon Assefa co-founded a group that teaches Internet technology to students in Africa.

Composer Elena Ruehr, lecturer in music for more than a decade, joined the MIT music faculty when she was 28. From the age of four on, she composed little tunes on the piano, and when she was 11, began formal lessons. By high school, she says,
Winter 2004

Knowing the Score

Composer Elena Ruehr’s new dance opera has critics and audiences on their feet, clapping, cheering, and whistling.

At 27, Junot Diaz’s book, Drown, a collection of short stories set both in Santo Domingo and New Jersey, caused a literary sensation. Now 34, Diaz is an associate professor in MIT’s Program in Writing, where he teaches creative writing and immigrant literature. Photo: Ed Quinn
Fall 2003

Literary Sensation

At 27, Junot Diaz wrote his first book, Drown, a literary smash. Now, Diaz is an MIT associate professor teaching creative writing and immigrant literature.

Jack Driscoll, editor-in-residence at MIT's Media Lab and former editor of the Boston Globe, is leading the charge to
Summer 2003

Community Computing

Jack Driscoll, editor-in-residence at MIT’s Media Lab, is arming people with the digital tools to publish their passions.

A self-described nerd, Michael Best spent much of his career focused on engineering and science questions, but he always felt vaguely dissatisfied
Winter 2003

Community Computers

Michael Best of the Media Lab is now exploring how information technology improves life in the developing world.

Sophomore Kyle Rattray was diagnosed with kidney cancer at age 3. Now cured, he's volunteering in an MIT research lab to help find a cure for others. He also established the MIT Cancer Society, is planning a cross-country bike ride to raise money for cancer research, and volunteers at a Boston home offering shelter and support to cancer patients and their families. Photo: Ed Quinn
Winter 2003

Committed to Others

Sophomore Kyle Rattray was diagnosed with kidney cancer at age 3. Now cured, he’s volunteering in an MIT research lab to find a cure for others.

Grad student Sharotka Godzina is shown here with her black-and-white still life of laboratory glassware by Tony Cragg.
Fall 2002

Great Finds

Students borrow top-quality art — including original Andy Warhols — in MIT”s Student Loan Art Program.