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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.
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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."
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The Boston Globe

25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010 -- Alisa Braithwaite - MIT professor Alisa Braithwaite is listed as one of the 25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010.
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The Boston Globe

"A Cambridge researcher who also teaches at MIT received the National Medal of Science yesterday from President Obama, the highest honor given to scientists, engineers, and inventors by the U.S. government." - Story on Whitehead Institute member Susan Lindquist's award.
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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."
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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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Scientific American

- MIT Mobility Lab's Leveraged Freedom Chair is the winner of Scientific American's 2010 World Changing Ideas Video Contest.
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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
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PBS NewsHour

Four Years After Health Reform, an Update on Care in Massachusetts - MIT economist and professor Jon Gruber discusses health care reform
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Bloomberg

"Simon Johnson, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a Bloomberg News columnist, talks about the outlook for global currencies and sovereign debt in Europe. Johnson, speaking with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's "Surveillance Midday," also discusses the outlook for U.S. financial markets."
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The New York Times

"Cats, both big and little, are so much classier, according to new research by Pedro M. Reis and Roman Stocker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined by Sunghwan Jung of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Jeffrey M. Aristoff of Princeton."
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The Wall Street Journal

"Economists Roberto Rigobon and Alberto Cavallo at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management have come up with a method to scour the Internet for online prices on millions of items and then use them to calculate inflation statistics for a dozen countries on a daily basis."
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PRI’s The World

The currency wars - MIT Professor Simon Johnson speaks on the topic of currency wars.
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Marketplace

Bracelet may help communication for people with autism - MIT professor Rosalind Picard speaks about her team's Q Sensor wristband.
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WCVB

"A new ranking of the top colleges in the U.S. lists several Massachusetts schools in the top tier, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology taking the top spot with a perfect score." - Results from recent www.statecollege.com rankings
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