According to Career Services, the number of students who participated last Wednesday's corporate recruiting summer resume drop has risen dramatically from last year. While 94 students participated in the event last year, this year saw 167 students applying for internships with financial and consulting corporations -- a 78 percent increase. There were 13 employers participating this summer compared to last year's nine. Application rates were equally balanced between males and females, and with the majority of employers in finance, most of the applications were to financial firms, though "the two consulting employers who participated did get high application rates as well," said Monica Wilson, the assistant director of employer relations at Career Services.
Dartmouth has received a $200,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years on July 13-15. DARPA is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense, and is responsible for "pursuing research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions," according to the its web site. According to philosophy professor and conference director James Moor, the conference will focus on "those models and methodologies likely to yield progress as well as achievements in specific areas such as learning, vision, reasoning, search, natural language and cognition." This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Dartmouth Conference, the meeting where the concept of artificial intelligence was first formalized.
On Saturday, the Associated Press published the story of Matt Thomas, the captain of the Harvard football team who has been suspended indefinitely after allegedly breaking into his former girlfriend's dorm room and assaulting her. Thomas, a rising senior, was arrested by Harvard University police on June 5. According to the Harvard University Police Department report, the victim returned to her room to find Thomas passed out on the floor. After his girlfriend woke Thomas, the two began to verbally fight and Thomas became violent, eventually choking and striking her. Thomas has been charged with assault and battery domestic abuse, breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony and malicious destruction of property in connection with a separate incident. Head coach Tim Murphy told the Boston Globe that he is deeply troubled by the allegations, but is waiting until all facts have come to light before assigning further discipline.
