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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 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
The New York Times,
His speeches and his voluminous writing had a lucidity and bite not usually found in academic technicians. He tried to give his economic pronouncements a “snap at the end,” he said, “like Mark Twain.” — Obituary for Paul Samuelson, MIT professor and Nobel-winning economist, who died on Sunday at age 94.
Popular Science,
With 20/20 hindsight, a few generations worth of experience, and better, faster technology, this time researchers in AI -- an ambiguous field to begin with -- plan to get things right. — Story on MIT's Mind Machine Project, which is re-examining artificial intelligence from the ground up.
Reuters UK,
"I remember school dances that I didn't go to, mid-terms I failed and family occasions that I missed. Only now do I realize how much of my life was mangled and distorted by this illness." — Padma Lakshmi on her battle with endometriosis. The 'Top Chef' host visited MIT Friday to open the new Center for Gynepathology.
The New York Times,
"This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform an experiment at a massive scale." — Riley Crane, postdoctoral fellow at MIT, on his team's approach in winning the recent DARPA red balloon challenge.
Wall Street Journal,
What would President Obama's pledge to reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 83% by 2050 mean in practice for the U.S. energy infrastructure? — Professor Richard Lester, head of the nuclear science and engineering department at MIT, comments on the implications of these reductions ahead of the President's speech at the Copenhagen climate change summit.
Bloomberg,
If you want to tout that fake Louis Vuitton Le Radieux handbag as the real deal, you had better look the part, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher. — Story on research by Renee Richardson Gosline, an assistant professor of marketing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Forbes,
"I like to say that there are no disabled people. Only disabled technology." — Professor Hugh Herr, director of the biomechatronics group at MIT's Media Lab, on his work designing better prosthetic devices.
The Boston Globe,
"I kept saying, 'What 1,000 words am I going to choose that’s going to get across who I am?'" — MIT senior Ugwechi Amadi, on the 1,000-word statement she had to write as part of the Rhodes scholar selection process. Amadi and two other MIT students — Caroline Huang and Steven Mo — won scholarships this year.
WBZ TV,
"And news flash, it wasn't the most user friendly place." — Rick Borovoy, a visiting scientist at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media, on Boston, and a new signage project to help visitors and residents get around the city.
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