MIT in the news
July 6, 2009
A selection of recent clips about MIT in the news media.
Boston Globe
July 6, 2009
"Late last month, EMC unveiled an alliance with the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. EMC will pay $200,000 a year for the next three years for insider access to the lab’s research. The company has also opened a new research center in Cambridge where EMC engineers will team up with computer scientists from MIT and other Boston-area universities. And EMC is joining with MIT, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Boston University, and Cisco Systems Inc. to build a $100 million advanced data center in Holyoke."
New York Times
July 5, 2009
"As director of the biomechatronics group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, he is at the forefront of prosthetics technology. His work there helps to improve the lives of millions of people, from stroke victims to amputees, as well as enabling him to develop the best possible legs for himself. Dr. Herr is one of the heroes of a new book, 'Design Meets Disability' by the industrial designer, Gra ham Pullin."
New York Times
July 2, 2009
"Kerry Emanuel, a climate expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the new work was impressive. But he added that he believed that the pattern 'has been there all along, but we just didn’t see it.'"
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2009
"If that's not complex enough, other provisions in the House bill add to the uncertainty. To reduce the impact on the economy, the legislation would allow companies to buy "offsets"—emission reductions made by, say, preventing deforestation—instead of making their own reductions or buying permits. In an analysis by John M. Reilly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, such offsets cut the price of a ton of CO2 emissions from $55 to $17 in 2015. But other studies are less sanguine about how many offsets will be allowed, so they end up predicting higher costs."
New York Times
July 2, 2009
"Missile expert and former U.N. arms inspector Mike Elleman cautioned against assuming that the similarities between the external dimensions of the North Korean second stage and the SS-N 6 mean that the two are the same technology. But Elleman added that the coincidence is hard to explain. Geoffrey Forden, another missile expert with MIT, sees merit in the Russian missile theory and believes North Korea may have its own production line for SS-N 6 missile components." -- This Associated Press article was also posted on the Washington Post, Boston Globe and Forbes websites
Washington Post
July 2, 2009
"With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science." -- This Associated Press article was also posted on the Boston Globe, Forbes and NPR websites
Economist
July 2, 2009
"Researchers have already become much better at understanding how the structure of new nano-engineered materials will behave, although the process remains largely one of trial and error because different samples have to be repeatedly manufactured and tested. Michael Demkowicz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing a model that he hopes will address the problem from a different direction: specifying a set of desired properties and then trying to predict the nanostructures needed to deliver them."
Time Magazine
July 2, 2009
"A way around that problem, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Jonathan Gruber, would be to have the taxes kick in at different levels in different states. 'Otherwise,' he says, 'you would be putting too much pressure on New York and not enough on Mississippi.'"
Washington Post
July 1, 2009
"For the second time in a month, Airbus Industrie has confronted crisis. On June 1, an Air France Airbus A330 en route to Paris from Brazil was lost over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board. 'It's a rough month for Airbus,' said John Hansman, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
mit in the news from the last 30 days >>>
|
rss feeds 
podcast