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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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U.S. News & World Report,
“MIT’s School of Engineering is recognized as having the overall top engineering Ph.D. program in the US, as well as the best programs in several specializations.”
The Boston Globe,
"Working with air traffic controllers in Boston, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that holding planes for an average of four minutes longer at the gate ... reduced taxi times by 20 percent and cut fuel consumption by up to 20 gallons per plane without increasing flight delays."
National Public Radio (NPR),
“MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and colleagues demonstrated that the apparently strong link between income and measures of democracy around the world at any one point in time disappears when you look at changes in income and rights over time.”
WBUR,
Robot Opera and Immortality — “(MIT’s Tod) Machover, known as ‘America’s most wired composer’ and director of the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab, thinks of his character Simon Powers, as ‘a combination of Howard Hughes, Walt Disney and Bill Gates,’ who rather than wanting to live forever, desired ‘to leave the world, but leave everything about himself here.’”
LA Times,
When 140 characters just aren’t enough — “In author-social scientist Sherry Turkle's latest book, ‘Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other,’ the MIT professor lays bare over 15 years' worth of research in which she examines a rising anxiety in young people, particularly when they don't update Facebook enough.”
Wall Street Journal,
‘Ga-Ga’ for Daddy’s Data — “(MIT professor Deb) Roy wired his house with 11 cameras and 14 microphones to record most waking moments of his son's first years. The cognitive scientist and his team are analyzing tens of thousands of hours of footage to learn how his son acquired language in real life.”
ESPN,
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference bullets — For a brief recap of some of the MIT Sports Analytics Conference most noteworthy news, check out this summary with links to additional articles.
New Scientist,
“(MIT) Neuroengineer Ed Boyden is best known for his pioneering work on optogenetics, which allows brain cells to be controlled using light. A speaker at the TED2011 conference this week, his vision, he tells Rowan Hooper, is nothing less than to understand the brain, treat neural conditions and figure out the basis of human existence.”
Financial Times,
“Rodrigo Arboleda, and MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte, ‘launched a campaign that aims to provide the children of Latin America – rich and poor alike- with laptop computers to help promote their education and development.’” — (Registration required to view full article)
The Boston Herald,
Print in another dimension — “In December, MIT Media Lab researcher Amit Zoran used an Objet Connex 500 — which resembles the larger ink-jet printers in most offices — to print a working flute made of plastic.”
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