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How to Become a Star Grad Student: James McLurkin and the Power of Stretch Churn. March 15th, 2010 · 61 comments The Famous Dr.

How to Become a Star Grad Student: James McLurkin and the Power of Stretch Churn

McLurkin In 2008, when James McLurkin graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from MIT, he was unquestionably a star. Four years earlier, Time Magazine profiled James and his research on swarm robotics as part of their Innovators series. The next year, he was featured on an episode of Nova ScienceNOW. The Inverted World (novel) In the novel, an entire city and its people travel across the earth on railway tracks being pursued by a destructive gravitational field.

The Inverted World (novel)

The city's engineers must work to lay fresh track for the city, and pick up the old track as it moves. The ruling faction works to ensure that the people are unaware that the city is even moving. The city enters into crisis as its population decreases, the people grow unruly, and it becomes more and more difficult to stay ahead of the destructive field. (1) Is life a game. Bionic eye gives partial sight to blind. (1) In what ways does Yelp fail? How can a new startup compete in the restaurant recommendation space.

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