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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 Wall Street Journal,
"This presents an opportunity for both Washington and Tokyo to step back and reconsider how the alliance should function and how it should be sold to the Japanese people in Japan's new democracy." — MIT doctoral student Tobias Harris, in an OP/ED on the Japan-U.S. Alliance
The New York Times,
"[It] greatly increases the chances that Haitians in Haiti and abroad will be able to find each other." — Center for Future Civic Media Director Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, on FriendFinder, a Google tool being used to help find missing people in Haiti.
Science,
After Samuelson, the elementary student was taught to deal with data (real and hypothetical), analyze them by diagrammatic methods or with simple equations, and use economic principles to answer concrete questions: What would you expect to happen if? — Economics Professor Emeritus Robert Solow, on the legacy of Paul Samuelson, who died on Dec. 13.
The Boston Globe,
"Music is really audible time. It can’t be experienced in an instant; it has to be unfolded in time." — Marcus Thompson, professor in the Music and Theater Arts Section, on the "Musical Time" series, which starts tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 9.
Forbes,
"We can now digitally turn off regions of the brain. We can alter the information in the brain in a strategically useful way." — Neuroscientist Ed Boyden, on a way to shut down parts of a brain just by shining light on them
USA Today,
Together, Ford and MIT are embarking on a study of driver workload and to identify new opportunities to use in-vehicle technologies to improve driver safety by lowering stress.
The Boston Globe,
"What’s amazing about this is that he beat out an incumbent. That’s not easy to do. It’s a big deal. Everybody gave him the thumbs up." — Gautam Dutta, executive director of the Asian American Action Fund, on MIT's Leland Cheung, the first Asian-American and first student elected to the Cambridge City Council.
The Boston Globe,
"We have [players] looking at us now that would not have taken us seriously six to seven years ago. We used to call ourselves the best basketball team that no one had heard of.” — MIT men's basketball coach Larry Anderson, on the team's success last season and its 11-0 start to this season.
Boston Globe,
"It’s like a Broadway play that you’ve practiced and practiced for months, and something always goes wrong." — Peter Belobaba, director of the MIT Global Airline Industry Program, on airline delays from this weekend's storm
The New York Times,
It is not easy to reinvent the wheel, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are giving it their best shot. — Story on two powered bicycle-wheel projects taking place at MIT
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