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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,
"'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."
Wired.co.uk,
"The coverage of 3D printing is a bit like the coverage of microwave ovens in the 50s. Microwaves are useful for some things, but they didn't replace the rest of your kitchen"
Boston.com,
"A comet visible in the night sky with a pair of binoculars for much of this month was discovered using technology developed at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington."
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."
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