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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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Inside Higher Ed,
“Today MIT is releasing a new report on the status of women, finding ‘remarkable progress.’"
New Scientist,
“So who exactly is Josef Oehmen and why did he write about the nuclear accidents in Japan?”
Boston Globe,
“Sherry Turkle, an MIT sociologist and author of ‘Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other,’’ said these trains put people physically together, in rows of seats that make it easier to converse and put down the cellphone.”
Matter Network,
“In an interview with Yale Environment 360, (MIT professor Michael) Golay, an authority on nuclear power safety and innovation, said it’s still too early to tell just how bad the situation may get at the Fukushima complex.”
Boston Globe,
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology has made significant strides in hiring, promoting, and supporting women scientists and engineers over the 12 years"
New York Times,
"Because things are so much better now, we can see an entirely new set of issues"
U.S. News & World Report,
“MIT’s School of Engineering is recognized as having the overall top engineering Ph.D. program in the US, as well as the best programs in several specializations.”
The Boston Globe,
"Working with air traffic controllers in Boston, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that holding planes for an average of four minutes longer at the gate ... reduced taxi times by 20 percent and cut fuel consumption by up to 20 gallons per plane without increasing flight delays."
National Public Radio (NPR),
“MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and colleagues demonstrated that the apparently strong link between income and measures of democracy around the world at any one point in time disappears when you look at changes in income and rights over time.”
WBUR,
Robot Opera and Immortality — “(MIT’s Tod) Machover, known as ‘America’s most wired composer’ and director of the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab, thinks of his character Simon Powers, as ‘a combination of Howard Hughes, Walt Disney and Bill Gates,’ who rather than wanting to live forever, desired ‘to leave the world, but leave everything about himself here.’”
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