Wolfram Alpha Pros and Cons

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It is going to be very difficult to show students the beauty of Wolfram Alpha and still find ways to prevent them from turning to the dark side of its power. This website is great for showing multiple representations of certain data, and it is lightning quick in producing answers compared to your hand on a tedious problem. While these two pros are at the forefront and really all that one needs to hear to become interested in exploring the site, the tide can easily and quickly turn from being a task servant to a task I’ll-do-it-all-for-you-every-time-and-you-do-nothing. One student in our 5040 class suggested that we might show this to our students at the end of the year when we are reviewing for final exams. The only problem with this is that they will not forget about this website the following year. With these things in mind, the best policy…

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RIP: Stanley Fisher PhD; 81

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Stanley Fischer, one of the most influential economists of recent decades, has died. He was 81. His death was confirmed by the WSJ and Bank of Israel, where he served as governor from 2005 to 2013.

Fischer served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. He left his biggest mark in prior decades, as professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, second in command at the International Monetary Fund, and at the Bank of Israel. In those roles, Fischer helped shape how an entire generation of central bankers and economic policymakers do their jobs.

Fischer was born in 1943 in Northern Rhodesia (now the independent country of Zambia) and first came to the U.S. in 1966 to get a Ph.D. at MIT.

After several years at the University of Chicago, he joined the faculty of MIT.

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