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Vladimir Jurowski conducts The London Philharmonic at Symphony Hall last Friday. The performance was part of the Celebrity Series of Boston.

Evangelos L. Efstathiou ’00, a former fencer for MIT, is the athlete of the week.

James Williamson leaves a message on the wall dedicated to “Remembrances of Aaron and Notes for the Swartz Family” at the memorial for Aaron Swartz held in the Media Lab Tuesday evening. See news coverage on page 6.

Cory D. Hernandez ‘14, presidential candidate, and John Kongoletos ‘14, vice presidential candidate, are running together in this year’s Undergraduate Association elections.

The percentage of undergraduate alumni donors to the MIT Annual Fund has decreased slightly in recent years, while since 2010, the percentage of exclusively graduate alumni donors has remained relatively stable.

MIT followed the national trend in declining alumni giving from 2011 to 2012. Capped donations do not count contributions past $100,000. Uncapped donations for 2011 and 2012 are not yet reliably available, as those in...

Nate Silver signed copies of his New York Times bestselling book The Signal and the Noise for audience members following his talk. Many audience members brought their own copies, but the book was also offered for sale...

Audience members had a chance to ask Silver questions during the second half of the event. Question topics ranged from digital journalism to the future of Silver’s career. When asked about would happen when other medi...

The event was held in the Bartos Theater in the basement of E15 (the Weisner Building/old Media Lab). The auditorium’s near-200 person capacity was exceeded before the event began; some audience members were left stan...

Much of the talk focused on the development on FiveThirtyEight, its beginnings at the New York Times, and Silver’s thoughts on its future. In 2007, Silver felt that politics was still “stuck in the stone age and not...

Journalist, writer, and MIT CMS associate professor Seth Mnookin moderated the Nate Silver talk, hosted by the MIT Communications Forum. Mnookin spent the first half of the two hour talk interviewing Silver and the re...

Statistician and political blogger Nate Silver appeared last night before a packed auditorium to talk about the role of statistics in elections and politics, as well as his own career. Silver’s fame skyrocketed late l...