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Building Boardwalk, Byte by Byte
Sophomores in this past fall’s “Intro to Java Language” class had a viable excuse for obsessing over a game: research. Provided with only the basic game graphics and a few weeks of instruction, the...
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Time Capsule
During tryouts for Wentworth’s basketball team in 1957, Frederick M. Boddington Jr., MC&TD ’58, came down with a rebound while the three guys around him hit the floor. With that, Boddington—who had...
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WetNap
Aksel Solberg, BARC ’09, MARC ’10, won the Napkin Design Contest at November’s Build Boston convention with a structure focused on juxtaposition. Charged with designing a public space that drew...
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A Home from the Heart
The Bella Tucker story began with a tragedy. In late April 2010, after suffering from a rare infection that inflicted severe tissue damage to her limbs, the 8-year-old gymnast and cheerleader had to...
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Build Boston Alumni Reception
This year’s reception at Build Boston included a presentation by Al Spagnolo, AET ’70, on the proposed Flanagan Campus Center designed by Spagnolo Gisness & Associates, Inc. (Photos: Joshua...
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Mr. Wentworth
Swanson and classmates Carl Swanson, MW&TM ’38, Hon. ’84, earned two titles during his Wentworth career in which he took great pride. The first was Institute Professor, an honor he received in...
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Balancing Act
Photo: Massachusetts e-Health Institute As the assistant secretary for finance and operations in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, his job is to further tighten...
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The Codebreakers
“You want me to show you the double-step?” Robert Cafazzo, BCOS ’12, is excited. It’s late November and he has just finished presenting his team’s early and elegant solution to what was supposed to be...
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Big Plan on Campus
Every September, honeydew melons take flight on Sweeney Field. As part of an industrial design course, students haul winged cardboard inventions to the field to see whose design keeps the fruit...
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Wild Thing
Mike Grygorcewicz, BMET ’08. Photo: Mark Wilson ON MARCH 17, 2008, A COPY of a promotional video for a robot named “BigDog” was posted on YouTube. The clip went viral, becoming the most-watched clip on...
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