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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 Boston Globe,
"Imagine how many well-prepared minds you would have to try to solve the country’s problems.” -MIT's Michael DeGraff
The Boston Globe,
"At start-up companies and in research laboratories, scientists are devising materials and technologies that could help remove or store carbon dioxide."
Idea Lab- PBS,
"Successful civic media tools -- especially ones designed by this conference's attendees -- re-engineer how mass-mobilization happens. But does that mean we should turn the page on old lessons?"
U.S. News & World Report,
"The researchers brought the toy to the Museum of Science in Boston and asked 85 preschoolers to play with it under one of four different experimental conditions."
The Wall Street Journal,
"Researchers have shown that a computer can master the video game Civilization II—in part by reading the manual."
Marketplace- American Public Media,
"You know those nature shows where they put a little tracking device on an animal and then release it into the wild? Some guys at MIT have done that with electronics."
Wired,
"Fancy a job swimming through the radioactive pipes beneath a nuclear reactor? Probably not if you're a human, but that's just what this spherical robot is designed to do."
CNN,
"It's a gel-like substance that would replace vocal cords that have become rigid from extensive use. And it's moving closer to FDA approval."
Wired,
"The key thing about this process is that the neural network doesn’t even know whether it’s correctly identifying state/action pairs when it starts—it doesn’t know how to “read”—much less whether it has correctly interpreted the advice they convey (do you build near a river, or should you never build by a river?)."
The Huffington Post,
"A new exhibit created by researchers at MIT's SENSEable City Lab for New York's Museum of Modern Art probes the "afterlife" of our discarded gadgets, from cellphones and batteries to printer cartridges and computers."
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