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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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Boston Magazine,
"Hey, the planet’s leading center of science, technology, and precision engineering turns 150 years old only once. So you’ll forgive the lovable geeks over at MIT if they spent four years planning the Institute’s sesquicentennial celebration."
The New York Times,
"Infants as young as 7 months have the ability to perceive and understand another person’s point of view, according to a new study in the journal Science [co-authored by Ansgar Endress, a cognitive psychologist at M.I.T.]."
The New York Times,
"For the last decade researchers have been exploring the possibility of building planes with hydrophobic, or water-repellent, materials that would not require de-icing. But now, researchers from M.I.T. report that this approach is flawed."
The Boston Globe,
The New York Times,
"A facial-recognition system developed at the M.I.T. Media Lab and commercialized by Affectiva tracks face movements and links them with a database of expressions."
ABC News,
"'The biggest concern among patients is, 'Am I going to wake up?' said lead study author Dr. Emery Brown, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
"On Saturday, the museum will kick off the university’s yearlong 150th birthday celebration with the opening of the “MIT 150’’ exhibition."
The Boston Globe,
"On Saturday, the museum will kick off the university’s yearlong 150th birthday celebration with the opening of the “MIT 150’’ exhibition."
New Scientist,
"Lawrence David and Eric Alm from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mapped the evolutionary history of 3983 gene families that occur in a wide range of modern species. They were able to show that 27 per cent of these gene families appeared in a short evolutionary burst which began about 3.3 billion years ago."
The Public Option: Parks and Libraries Soar
The Wall Street Journal,
The Public Option: Parks and Libraries Soar — The new MIT Media Lab Extension is listed as one of Wall Street Journal's most notable architectural structures of 2010.
U.S. News & World Report (AP),
"About 27 percent of all gene families that exist today were born between 3.3 billion and 2.8 billion years ago, two researchers from MIT report online December 19 in Nature." — This article originally ran in Science News.
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