Browsing Graduate Theses by Title
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Workplace Change in an Age of Insecurity: Evidence from a U.S. Automaker
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)What accounts for the low adoption of high performance work practices in the U.S.? This study explores a political explanation: their survival depends on the cooperation of different social actors in organizations. Through ... -
Workspace in transition : rethinking workspace through the design of reconfigurable worksurfaces
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Communication is an integral part of today's workplace, linking people, objects, and information. Now that knowledge exchange is considered a significant work activity, new technologies have been developed to support ... -
World Court
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Eighteen billion gallons of toxic waste, nine billion dollars in damages, trials across five countries, hundreds of lawyers, millions of dollars in litigation fees, and a corporation with an annual revenue of two hundred ... -
World dynamics in the 21st century
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The world in the network: the Interop trade show, Carl Malamud's Internet 1996 Exposition, and the politics of internet commercialization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)In the early 1990s, the Internet emerged as a commercially viable global communications medium. This study considers the role that representatives of the military-industrial research world played in the physical expansion ... -
The world is a window
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)"We were searching for ourselves in each other." - Sergei Parajanov Straddling the border between the continents of Europe and Asia, the South Caucasus, the name referring to the geographical region that stretches from the ... -
The World Trade Center disaster : Analysis and recommendations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 brought about the destruction of two symbols of American economic strength, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. These towers remained standing for some ... -
The World Wide Web : implications for organizational alignment
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A World Wide Web browser utilizing three-dimensional space
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WorldLens: exploring world events through media
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The goal of WorldLens is to provide a visual answer to the question: "what is happening in the world?" This thesis entails the design and development of a system that provides an exploratory view into world events across ... -
Worst-case identification and complexity under bounded but low correlated noise
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Worst-case identification in l1 : algorithms and complexity
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Wrapster : semi-automatic wrapper generation for semi-structured websites
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Many information sources on the Web are semi-structured; hence there is an opportunity for automatic tools to process and extract their information for easy access through a uniform interface language. Wrapper generation ... -
Wrestling with systemic edges designing for long-term social change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)In this work I seek to show how the lack of nuance in data representation and media practices of the American educational system impedes the design of effective educational interventions for low-income Black youth. First, ... -
WRF-Var implementation for data assimilation experimentation at MIT
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The goal of this Masters project is to implement the WRF model with 3D variational assimilation (3DVAR) at MIT. A working version of WRF extends the scope of experimentation to mesoscale problems in both real and idealized ... -
Wrinkles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)As simple as the natural law, no physical objects will last forever - we are all in the process of perpetual senescence. While our eyes are sensitive towards the life cycle of human bodies, they are less attuned to the way ... -
WristQue : a personal sensor wristband for smart infrastructure and control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Despite the rapid expansion of computers beyond desktop systems into devices and systems in the environment around us, the control interfaces to these systems are often basic and inadequate, particularly for infrastructure ... -
Writing and connecting IoT and mobile applications in MIT App Inventor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)As the "Internet of Things" (IoT) grows and becomes more prevalent in society, it is important that everyone is able to understand and take advantage of IoT technology. I present the IoT Embedded Companion, a system ... -
Writings for acquisition : Hellenizing Alexandria, Egypt
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This research work started with the exploration of E.M. Forster's major publication on Alexandria published in 1922, Alexandria a History and a Guide, considered until now 'the Classical Guide for Alexandria;' or ironically ... -
Written in invisible ink : a case study on the politics of free trade reform and labor regulation in Guatemala
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis makes two primary claims: first, that the US - Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (US-DR CAFTA, or CAFTA) has had important effects on labor regulation in Guatemala that are not contained ...
