"It's similar to their nuclear weapons programs," Wit said.
The Agincourt HDSS provides invaluable opportunities for training new PhD researchers in the population and health science programs at Wits, as well as Masters level (MSc, MPH, MA) students.
The program (called WIT -- the Web Institute for Teachers) was a required course for all Chicago Public School teachers.
In 1994, Berger co-founded a nonprofit, the Palaeontological Scientific Trust, which raised enough money to preserve the Wits program — and showed that Berger had a talent for fund-raising.
Still, Microsoft has a healthy head start in the U.S. market with WebTV, which even now lets users interact with some TV programs, including matching wits with contestants on Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy.
If you're a fan of genre programming made with wit, pluck and $3, you owe it to yourself to check out "Lost Girl," which has so won me over that I can't force myself to care about its faults (most of which stem from its apparently slender budget).
The show is anything but timid about tugging heartstrings; wildly melodramatic profiles of survivors of deadly weather are a staple -- the kind of programming that some weather wits refer to as "weather porn".
Either way, an online program probably means you won't have the opportunity to meet top students from other M.B.A. programs and match your wits against theirs.
"An avalanche of words" is how Mark Waldrop, the host of the Lyrics & Lyricists program "Mad Dogs and Educated Fleas: Nöel and Cole, a Battle of Wits" described the program at the 92nd Street Y on Saturday evening.
To wit, meet Primo: a physical programming interface that teaches children programming logic while they control the movements of an Arduino-powered robot.
