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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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Boston Globe,
"...a study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mass. General, and Boston University, has taken a systematic approach to understand the changes in brain activity that occur as a patient goes under with an anesthesia drug."
Boston.com,
"One key purpose of the new fund, Ito explained to me recently, will be to encourage students to finish their degrees before they start companies."
The New York Times,
"I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on 'Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education'..." - Tom Friedman Column, New York Times
Nature,
"The prospect of carbon taxes and cap-and-trade markets has led industry groups around the world to adopt green or sustainable cement initiatives. Their approaches range from supporting basic research to pushing to reform international building codes, and, if successful, could eventually cut the cement industry's carbon dioxide footprint by half."
The New York Times,
"Ernest J. Moniz, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Initiative, is the president’s choice to take over for Steven Chu at the Energy Department."
The Boston Globe,
"We are at the beginning of a technology-led revolution in pedagogy: Our innovation is not the blackboard, but instead an evolving suite of tools that allows interactive learning online." — Boston Globe Op/Ed co-authored by MIT President L. Rafael Reif and Harvard President Drew Faust
Science,
"The more Miyagawa studied the distinction between lexical structure and expression structure, 'the more I started to think, "Gee, these two systems are really fundamentally different," ' he says. 'They almost seem like two different systems that just happen to be put together,' perhaps through evolution."
The New York Times,
“Once we amplify these small motions, there’s like a whole new world you can look at,” he said.
Financial Times,
"To slash America’s R&D capability in the name of fiscal responsibility would be akin to seeking greater efficiency for an aircraft by jettisoning the engines." — An op/ed co-authored by MIT President L. Rafael Reif and former Intel chief executive and chairman Craig Barrett
Wired,
"The Tongueduino is the brainchild of MIT Media Lab’s Gershon Dublon."
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