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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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Healthcare digital,
Media Lab professor Tod Machover, YMWI CEO Barry Bittman, MD and post-doctoral appointee, Adam Boulanger, aim to create music composition tools that prevent or reduce the progression of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease.”
“Wondering if any of the Milky Way's 50 billion planets are similar to Earth? A team of astronomers [including MIT’s Sara Seager] has figured out which colors of light future telescopes should look for.”
Discovery.com,
“Wondering if any of the Milky Way's 50 billion planets are similar to Earth? A team of astronomers [including MIT’s Sara Seager] has figured out which colors of light future telescopes should look for.”
Moneywatch,
"MIT is one of only 63 schools out of the 1700 surveyed by U.S. News & World Report that claim to meet students' full financial need."
National Public Radio,
“Scientists have been saying for years that as the planet heats up, we will have to deal with more severe weather. But pinning any particular event — such as a specific hurricane — to global warming is difficult at best. Now, scientists have tried to do just that.”
Chron.com,
“Army Special Forces veteran Randy Tipton isn't quite ready to say he feels like television's ‘Six Million Dollar Man.’ But his brand-new robotic foot represents a groundbreaking advance in prosthetics technology made possible by tens of millions of dollars the U.S. government has poured into research to ‘rebuild’ service members who've lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Los Angeles Times,
“A MIT researcher is developing a trainable manufacturing robot that will cost as little as $5,000, which would save employers significant money in salary and benefits.”
"Downtown Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to MIT's very own nuclear reactor, which is used in a variety of medical, imaging and power experiments."
ZDNet UK,
"Downtown Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to MIT's very own nuclear reactor, which is used in a variety of medical, imaging and power experiments."
The Boston Globe,
"We’re trying to get people to understand it’s not about paper boats and cranes." — MIT sophomore Yanping Chen in a feature about OrigaMIT, an origami club at the Institute.
The Boston Globe,
"Last night, an overflow crowd in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology lecture hall watched as IBM Corp.’s Watson computer played to a draw against human opponents in the quiz show 'Jeopardy!'"
New Scientist,
"Whatever the outcome, the fact that a machine is able to compete against the most successful players ever to appear on Jeopardy! 'is a remarkable achievement', says Boris Katz, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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