He taught economic history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other colleges, and worked on his book on economic growth, the subject that brought him to the notice of Kennedy, and which remains the best known of his 30 works.

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Mr Vajpayee reckons that India already has a good base of technology institutes and regional engineering colleges.

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EdX, originally backed by a grant from Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has joined with community colleges in Massachusetts and McGill University in Montreal.

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Especially since colleges are even giving iPads away to their students, such as Stanford, Duke, Illinois Institute of Technology, and University of Maryland.

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Even Bath acknowledges that more colleges are ramping up technology for safety purposes in recent years, an effort spurred by a 2003 University of Pennsylvania initiative to install hundreds of security cameras around campus.

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