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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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MSNBC,
"Draper Lab group has partnered on a spacesuit project with scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They plan to first create a prototype for a spacesuit arm by 2012."
Forbes,
"Is it better to pursue a single bottom line, or do shareholders benefit more when a company supports the 'triple bottom line' that includes people, the planet, and profits?" -Caroline Flammer
Economist,
"On average there are 12 mid-air collisions between small aircraft in America every year, causing 19 deaths—and a lot more near misses."
TIME- Techland,
"Researchers from MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone application called 'SignalGuru' that uses the camera from a dashboard-mounted smartphone to capture images of traffic lights. Once the images are captured, they're analyzed to detect whether the lights are green, yellow or red and then that data is passed along to other nearby SignalGuru users."
CNN,
"Rather than seen as trash, plastic bottles are now being viewed as a cheap and sustainable way to light homes."
Boston.com,
"Natan Linder, a researcher at MIT's Media Lab, asked a question most of us have never thought to ask: what if the lamp on your desktop could be transformed into a computer display?"
The New York Times,
"Today, our most important task is to restart this virtuous cycle of invention and manufacturing." -Susan Hockfield
Boston.com,
"The map he used was produced with Sourcemap, a local start-up that combines mapping software with carbon footprint information to help people track the carbon used to produce the things they eat, use, and wear."
The Wall Street Journal,
"It would seem that our culture’s relationship to Nature has evolved along with our economic susceptibility to natural disasters." -Kerry Emanuel
The New York Times Magazine,
“When you’re manufacturing anything, even if the work is done by robots and machines, there’s an incredible value chain involved.” -President Hockfield
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