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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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The New York Times,
"All sorts of walls come tumbling down in “World of Wires,” Jay Scheib’s slap-happy, mixed-media murder mystery at the Kitchen. Divisions between reality (that old chimera) and perception — not to mention the borders that separate screen from stage and human from machine — are stomped upon with the glee of a precocious, permanently stoned, science-fiction-reading 14-year-old who has just discovered, like, philosophy, dude."
New Scientist,
"WristQue is the key to controlling 'the immersive world of interactive media that will one day surround us,' says Joe Paradiso, director of the Responsive Environments Group at MIT's Media Lab, who is working with colleagues to design it."
Bloomberg,
"Yet depreciation may be the only remaining hope for the euro’s survival, as long as it is carried out through swift and coherent policy support."
Popular Science,
"Researchers there (at MIT) have created a nanoscale coating that can stop bleeding nearly instantaneously using a clotting agent already found naturally in blood."
New Scientist,
"There's nothing like the visceral roar of the crowd - that hair-raising, spine-tingling moment when thousands of people all sing, or shout, in unison."
The Boston Globe,
"Joi Ito started last fall as the new director of the MIT Media Lab, the famed research group that explores how technology is changing communication and culture, often by building dazzling hardware and software prototypes."
Wired,
"Our brains are made to find faces. In fact, they're so good at picking out human-like mugs we sometimes see them in a jumble of rocks, a bilious cloud of volcanic ash or some craters on Moon."
The Boston Globe,
"Coming soon to a garage near you is a car that will download your work schedule and trigger your alarm clock. By the time you get behind the wheel, the car will have analyzed the morning’s traffic and weather and calculated the best route to get you to the office on time."
The Boston Globe,
"Here's my list of big events happening in Boston this year. Some are home-grown, and others are major national conventions — like the annual conclaves of the biotech and cable TV industries — that are coming to town." -Scott Kirsner, Boston Globe
The New York Times,
"In October, with support from two Media Laboratory videographers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paula Aguilera and Jonathan Williams, Dr. Hidalgo began posting online a series of video interviews with local scientists."
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