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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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Businessweek,
Innovator: Joseph Bates — MIT visiting scientist Joseph Bates is featured in Bloomberg Businessweek's Innovator column.
Reuters Video News,
"MIT Economist Simon Johnson and NYSE Euronext Chief Duncan Niederauer join Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations and Chrystia Freeland to debate the the long-term effects of government bailouts of the big banks."
CBS News,
Davos: Solar Power Seen A Key To Future — Article on discussions at the World Economic Forum on clean energy solutions, highlighting MIT research.
Economist warns on U.S. budget
Boston Herald (AP),
Economist warns on U.S. budget — The Boston Herald covers this week's MIT 150th Economics Symposium.
Businessweek,
"The study, led by MIT's Dr. Sandy Petland who runs the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, tested whether early buzz could precipitate a product's ultimate success." — Story on "What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer"
PBS NOVA,
NOVA series — "Making Stuff: Smaller" — The episode of this series airing on Wednesday, Jan. 26, will feature Department of Physics Assistant Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, recent winner of the Packard Fellowship.
Nature.com,
"But Steven Piantadosi and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge say that, to convey a given amount of information, it is more efficient to shorten the least informative — and therefore the most predictable — words, rather than the most frequent ones."
The New York Times,
Book Review - Alone Together — The New York Times reviews MIT professor Sherry Turkle's new book on identity in the digital age.
BBC News Southern Counties,
"So far, the H5N1 strain has mainly infected birds and poultry workers, but experts fear the virus could mutate to pass easily from human to human. However, Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that to enter human respiratory cells the virus must first pick a very specific type of lock."
Bloomberg,
"[Rodney] Brooks’s MIT colleague, social scientist Sherry Turkle, shares his fascination with how human beings relate to technology, and vice versa."
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