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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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Wired/Science News,
"In the new study, researchers led by Raúl Radovitzky of MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies created an elaborate computer model of a human head that included layers of fat and skin, the skull, and different kinds of brain tissue."
The New York Times,
Arnold Barnett - Do Body Scanners Make Us Safer? — MIT professor Arnold Barnett speaks about the controversy surrounding new security measures.
BBC News,
"Previous studies have suggested that the Advanced Combat Helmet, currently employed by the majority of US ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, actually focuses blast wave energy, causing more harm than good. To find out, Raul Radovitzky of [MIT's] Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and his colleagues simulated a human skull in detail on a computer."
MIT's Rigobon Says Fed Doing `Right Thing' With QE2: Video
The Washington Post,
MIT's Rigobon Says Fed Doing `Right Thing' With QE2: Video — Roberto Rigobon, an economics professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about the outlook for inflation and the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing.
The Wall Street Journal (Asia),
"Lottery studies provide 'the best evidence you can get on charter schools short of running a clinical trial' because students are randomly assigned, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Joshua Angrist, co-author of the Boston study."
Boston Globe,
"He is one of three Harvard seniors — Zachary Frankel and Daniel E. Lage are the other two — who won a Rhodes scholarship, in addition to Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior Jennifer Lai."
Superhero style spacesuits
CNN,
Superhero style spacesuits — MIT has created a "superhero-style" spacesuit that's used to help fight bone loss in space.
BBC News,
"The device constructs a basic image of its surroundings — including objects hidden around the corner — by collecting the tiny amounts of light that bounce around the scene. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team believe it has uses in search and rescue and robot vision." — Story on camera developed at MIT that takes photos around corner
Wired,
"Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, has used a hacked Xbox Kinect camera and an iRobot Create kit to make a Roomba-esque KinectBot that can recognize human beings and respond to their gestural commands."
Forbes.com,
"Today researchers are buzzing about Bear and his radical new theory that offers a real glimmer of hope that some forms of autism may be treatable with drugs." — 'Decoding Autism,' a profile piece on MIT professor Mark Bear, exploring his research with autism.
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