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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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Nature,
"Cancer geneticist Matthew Meyerson, who is at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, tracks the many ways tumors wreak chaos in orderly cells. He wants to squeeze into his schedule a dedicated time period in Gad Getz's lab at the Broad Institute to hone his computational skills for analyzing data about cancer genomes."
Slate,
"In a report published this week, a team including researchers from MIT and Harvard revealed that anonymized cellphone location data demonstrate patterns of behavior that could be used to identify a person."
Financial Times,
“'I am like the first person in my city to get into MIT ever so I have become sort of pretty famous,' he said. 'I was so motivated by how we were taught [by edX] that I decided that maybe I belong to MIT after all.'”
Washington Post,
"When Turkle left the show in L.A., 'the response to him [Aziz Ansari] was that he was on to something really true. . . . I think he’s capturing the kind of paradoxes and difficulties of modern love and modern life.'”
The Washington Post,
"Sea worms, jellyfish, geckos and spiders may seem unlikely muses to cutting-edge technology. But these creatures are helping stimulate medical innovations — including new adhesives, diagnostic tests and needles — that are slowly migrating from the lab to the clinic."
New Scientist,
"On the fifth floor of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, David Mellis has just plugged in the mobile phone I spent all afternoon soldering together. That's right: I just built a cellphone. By hand."
New Scientist,
"On the fifth floor of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, David Mellis has just plugged in the mobile phone I spent all afternoon soldering together. That's right: I just built a cellphone. By hand."
Boston Globe,
"'What attracts a lot of people to cheesemaking,' says Paxson recently in her office, 'is that it’s magical: the transubstantiation of fluid milk to solid food. A lot of people [I interviewed] described cheese’s liveliness and used developmental metaphors like "hitting puberty" and "maturity." They anthropomorphize the cheese.'”
The Guardian,
"...Machover developed the 'hyperinstrument', which he defines as 'an instrument that knows how it is being played – and can sound like anything'."
The Wall Street Journal,
"MIT researchers say they have found a way for the cloud to handle databases 20 times more efficiently."
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