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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,
"The spectrometer, the long-gestating brainchild of Sam Ting, a Nobel physics laureate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consists of a giant magnet and detectors that together act as a cosmic sifter, looking for evidence of the elusive 'dark matter' that is thought to pervade the universe."
CBS News,
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology today released a report called the 'Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle,' where a panel argued that the U.S. policy needs to make spent-fuel treatment an integral part of nuclear plant operations, rather than an 'afterthought.'"
The Boston Globe,
"The distracted are becoming so distracting that some college professors — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, no less — think it’s time to unwire the halls of higher education." — Editorial
The New York Times,
"Experts on nuclear power predict that Japan’s Fukushima crisis will lead to a major rethinking of how spent nuclear fuel is handled in the United States but have cast doubt on a proposed solution: reprocessing the fuel to recover plutonium and other materials for reuse."
WBUR,
"[It is] a very complicated time — one that tests the limits of human ingenuity and understanding." — MIT President Susan Hockfield on RadioBoston
The Boston Globe,
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday named Joichi Ito as the next director of the MIT Media Lab."
Wall Street Journal,
"Organizations world-wide have placed a huge wager on information technology, spending an estimated $594 billion on computer hardware and software in 2010 alone. But what are the keys to making the most of this investment?"
The Boston Globe,
"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — home to the father of the World Wide Web and where the Internet is accessible even near the banks of the Charles River — students’ eyes obsessively wander, midconversation, down to laptops and cellphones, checking for missed updates from friends."
The Economist,
"In a paper presented last month, Hari Balakrishnan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests how a device's movements could be predicted by sampling data from built-in motion, positioning, and other sensors, bumping throughput by around 50%."
The Wall Street Journal,
"For almost two years, Alex Pentland at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has tracked 60 families living in campus quarters via sensors and software on their smartphones—recording their movements, relationships, moods, health, calling habits and spending."
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