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Wired

Cellphone Networks and the Future of Traffic - “The future of mobile sensing isn’t limited to traffic monitoring. The CarTel project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrated the use of accelerometers mounted on a fleet of a local limo company to detect and map potholes.”
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Discovery.com

"Enter Talaris, the Terrestrial Autonomous Lunar Reduced Gravity System, a prototype robot under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in partnership with the non-profit Draper Lab. Rather than wheels, Talaris would use chemical rocket thrusters to launch itself off a planetary surface, hover, fly to a new location and gently lower itself to the ground again."
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HDNet

“Meet physics professor Ernest Moniz from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Moniz is not just a world-renowned scientist, but also an expert in policy who served in President Clinton’s administration and now is on President Obama’s council of advisers on science and technology.”
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TheScientist

Ready, Reset, Go - “It was a misbehaving virus that drew MIT professor Rudolf Jaenisch to epigenetics.”
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The Boston Globe

“New York joins a crowded field of professional sports organizations recruiting Boston talent for jobs in the growing field of sports analytics, the development and use of complicated statistics for decision making in all aspects of the business, from player trades to on-field strategy to ticket prices. ‘These days, the data is there,’ (MIT Professor Stephen) Graves says. ‘The question is: What can you do with it?’”
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The Boston Globe

"This is what is great about Walid: He is very imaginative. He really worked on adapting his menus from a sit-down restaurant, listening to people with experience in college dining about the speed and pace that you have to feed people." - Rich Berlin, director of Dining Services at MIT, on Walid Masoud's Sepal dining location in the MIT Student Center.
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Healthcare digital

Media Lab professor Tod Machover, YMWI CEO Barry Bittman, MD and post-doctoral appointee, Adam Boulanger, aim to create music composition tools that prevent or reduce the progression of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease.”
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Discovery.com

“Wondering if any of the Milky Way's 50 billion planets are similar to Earth? A team of astronomers [including MIT’s Sara Seager] has figured out which colors of light future telescopes should look for.”
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CIO

A survey of 370 CIOs by CIO magazine and the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) suggests that IT units have added a third major responsibility to their traditional build-and-run obligations: technology exploitation. This is the persistent effort to capitalize on a firm’s digital platforms, accumulated data, and new technologies—and it’s IT’s new value proposition.”
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Moneywatch

"MIT is one of only 63 schools out of the 1700 surveyed by U.S. News & World Report that claim to meet students' full financial need."
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Los Angeles Times

“A MIT researcher is developing a trainable manufacturing robot that will cost as little as $5,000, which would save employers significant money in salary and benefits.”
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Chron.com

“Army Special Forces veteran Randy Tipton isn't quite ready to say he feels like television's ‘Six Million Dollar Man.’ But his brand-new robotic foot represents a groundbreaking advance in prosthetics technology made possible by tens of millions of dollars the U.S. government has poured into research to ‘rebuild’ service members who've lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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ZDNet UK

"Downtown Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to MIT's very own nuclear reactor, which is used in a variety of medical, imaging and power experiments."
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National Public Radio

“Scientists have been saying for years that as the planet heats up, we will have to deal with more severe weather. But pinning any particular event — such as a specific hurricane — to global warming is difficult at best. Now, scientists have tried to do just that.”
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PBS NOVA

Smartest Machine on Earth - MIT Professor Patrick Winston is among those interviewed for the NOVA special about IBM's Watson, a supercomputer taking on two humans in Jeopardy! this week.
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