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MIT in the Media

The following news clips about MIT, updated on a regular basis, are just a partial selection of our most recent media coverage.
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WBUR,
"[It is] a very complicated time — one that tests the limits of human ingenuity and understanding." — MIT President Susan Hockfield on RadioBoston
The Boston Globe,
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday named Joichi Ito as the next director of the MIT Media Lab."
Wall Street Journal,
"Organizations world-wide have placed a huge wager on information technology, spending an estimated $594 billion on computer hardware and software in 2010 alone. But what are the keys to making the most of this investment?"
The Boston Globe,
"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — home to the father of the World Wide Web and where the Internet is accessible even near the banks of the Charles River — students’ eyes obsessively wander, midconversation, down to laptops and cellphones, checking for missed updates from friends."
The Economist,
"In a paper presented last month, Hari Balakrishnan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests how a device's movements could be predicted by sampling data from built-in motion, positioning, and other sensors, bumping throughput by around 50%."
The Wall Street Journal,
"For almost two years, Alex Pentland at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has tracked 60 families living in campus quarters via sensors and software on their smartphones—recording their movements, relationships, moods, health, calling habits and spending."
L.A. Times,
"'If you do an experiment with such a large magnet … you're entering a new domain. You don't know what you'll see,' said Ting, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who shared a 1976 Nobel Prize for discovering a subatomic particle."
The New York Times blogs,
"A new class of transparent photovoltaic cells has been developed that can turn an ordinary windowpane into a solar panel without impeding the passage of visible light, scientists said Tuesday."
The Boston Globe,
"Is the Easter bunny losing some of its iconic cachet to the Easter egg?"
WBUR,
"Springmann says that from the first time she stepped foot on the Kendall train platform, she was struck by how the sculpture brings people together."
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