Thereafter, he became Sloan School Dean at MIT, prognosticated little and faded from view.

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Enter the opposite view in the form of MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson, who quickly averred that growth is not dead.

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The three departures are unfortunate that's the view of Claude Canizares, vice president of research at MIT, who served on the council for ten years.

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