Academic turns city into a social experiment

Academic turns city into a social experiment – Harvard Gazette

Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in charge of, as he describes it, “a 6.5 million person classroom.”

Academic turns city into a social experiment – Harvard Gazette

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