Question: Sociometric Solutions is a Boston, Massachusetts-based business founded by MIT students and covered in the media by a weekly English-language science magazine, founded in what year? 

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New Scientist: New Scientist is a weekly English-language international science magazine, founded in 1956.  Since 1996 it has also run a website.

Nagendra Vijay: Nagendra Vijay is an Indian science writer in Gujarati language.  He is a son of pioneering journalist and science writer Vijaygupta Maurya.  He founded the first science magazine in Gujarati language called Scope and wrote several books.  The Nagendra Vijay Science Foundation also launched the first Gujarati-language science magazine called Safari, of which he is the Editor-in-Chief.  His son Harshal Pushkarna is also a science author.

David Irvine (blackjack player): David Irvine is an engineer and professional blackjack player and a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team.  Irvine was a part of the blackjack team featured in the best selling book, "Bringing Down the House", by Ben Mezrich.  Irvine was one of the members of a team of MIT students that won millions at blackjack tables around the world by counting cards.  The story of the MIT Blackjack Team was made into a major motion picture, 21, which was released in theaters on March 28, 2008.  In 2004, Irvine co-founded a company called the Blackjack Institute with business partner Mike Aponte that provides instructional products and services on how to win at blackjack.  Irvine has spoken at various events describing his experiences with the team, including the Global Gaming Expo Conference in 2007, the Chicago University Private Equity Network in 2006, among other events.  Irvine is also the co-owner of an engineering consulting company called SBR Technologies, Inc., that focuses on the use of a wastewater treatment process called the sequencing batch reactor.

MIT Mystery Hunt: The MIT Mystery Hunt is an annual puzzlehunt competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  As one of the oldest and most complex puzzlehunts in the world, it attracts roughly 60 teams and 2,500 contestants annually, in teams of 5 to 200 people.  It has inspired similar competitions at Microsoft, Stanford University, Melbourne University, University of South Carolina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Aveiro (Portugal) as well as in the Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, Washington, DC, Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio metropolitan areas.  Because the puzzle solutions require knowledge of esoteric and eclectic topics, the hunt is often fused with popular stereotypes of MIT students.

Nasir Memon: Nasir Memon is a computer scientist based in Brooklyn, New York.  Memon is a professor and chair of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering computer science and engineering department and affiliate faculty at the computer science department in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.  He is also the Department Head of NYU Tandon Online, the online learning unit of the school.  He introduced cyber security studies to New York University Tandon School of Engineering, making it one of the first schools to implement the program at the undergraduate level.  Memon holds twelve patents in image compression and security.  He is the founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy (CRISSP) and CRISSP Abu Dhabi.  In 2002, Memon founded Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), an annual conference where tens of thousands of students compete in events and learn skills in cyber security Memon is also co-founder of Digital Assembly, a software company that develops digital forensics and data recovery and Vivic, a company that produces malware detection software.  Memon has published over 250 articles in journals and conferences and has contributed to articles regarding cyber security in magazines such as "Crain’s New York Business", "Fortune", and "USA Today".  His research has been featured in "NBC Nightly News", "The New York Times", "MIT Review", "Wired.Com", and "New Science Magazine".

Tidbit: Tidbit is a Boston area startup company founded by MIT students to use web based distributed computing to mine bitcoins.  In December 2013, shortly after its formation, the company was served a subpoena by the Attorney General of New Jersey under the state's consumer fraud protection act.  After consulting the MIT administration the company was referred to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing the company in its effort opposing the subpoena.

MIT Global Startup Workshop: MIT Global Startup Workshop (MITGSW) is a flagship event of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology run by a student group in association with Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, MIT Legatum Center and MIT Alumni Association.  Each year, about 40 MIT students, alumni and staff organize the 3 day conference in close collaboration with partners from a different host country in order to discuss practical steps that can be taken by students, academic faculty, venture capitalists, government leaders, entrepreneurs, and top business leaders.

Sociometric Solutions: Sociometric Solutions is a Boston, Massachusetts-based business which provides management services for companies and organizations using sociometric analysis.  For their research they have developed a "sociometric badge", a high-tech name tag which is embedded with sensors that can track a person's location, interaction, body movement, and speech dynamics.  Sociometric Solutions was founded by MIT doctoral students Ben Waber, Daniel Olguin, Taemie Kim, and MIT Professor Alex Pentland.  The company has been covered in the media by various news and technology sources including "New Scientist", "The Boston Globe", "CBS News", "Businessweek", NPR, CNN, and the "New York Times".  Sociometric Solutions clients have included Bank of America and the United States Army.  The company's research has supported the importance of face-to-face interactions and communication, and building larger networks among peers.  One finding from the firm's research was that simple physical changes such as having larger tables in a cafeteria facilitated more interaction and collaboration among colleagues than smaller tables.  Another finding emphasized the importance of group breaks and office spaces which facilitate such breaks as having an important effect on employee morale and efficacy.  While Sociometric Solutions collects full data through its sensors, it anonymizes the data in its reports to clients, only charting broader patterns and connections to productivity rather than individual tracking and performance.

MIT class ring: Massachusetts Institute of Technology's class ring, often called the Brass Rat, is a commemorative ring for the graduating class of students at MIT.  The ring is redesigned each year by a committee of MIT students.  The class ring has three main sections: the bezel, containing MIT's mascot, the beaver; the MIT seal (seal shank); and the class year (class shank).  The side surfaces show the Boston and Cambridge skylines.  An MIT campus map and the student's name are engraved on the inner surface.  On earlier versions, the Building 10 facade was featured on each shank, with "MIT" under it on one side and the class year on the other.

Bringing Down the House (book): Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions is a book by Ben Mezrich about a group of MIT card counters commonly known as the MIT Blackjack Team.  Though the book is classified as non-fiction, the "Boston Globe" alleges that the book contains significant fictional elements, that many of the key events propelling the drama did not occur in real life, and that others were exaggerated greatly.

Supporting paragraphs: Sociometric Solutions New Scientist
Answer: 1956