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Wired

"MIT computer scientists have published a paper detailing how they created a prototype Kinect-style sensor system that picks up visual data and translates it into a map, building an image of the world around a wearer instantaneously."
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Scientific American

"The tech from mood rings and 'hypercolor' T-shirts is now in sunglass lenses, paints, threads, and even medicines."
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Popular Science

"The first human moving through a dangerous area can generate annotated digital maps in realtime, imparting critical information to the next wave of responders."
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The New York Times

"Now computers and their tireless calculations may bolster the skills of many people who want to create well-cut picture frames, inlays or furniture but lack the dexterity."
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The Boston Globe

"MIT faculty, staff, and students officially welcomed L. Rafael Reif as the school’s 17th president Friday, and he laid out a vision that further embraces online education, bolsters investment in ­research, and makes education more accessible."
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The Boston Globe

"The Boston Globe and the MIT Center for Civic Media are collaborating to bring media experiments from the university to the audience of the Globe’s websites, Boston.com and BostonGlobe.com."
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Boston Herald

"L. Rafael Reif has made the grade. Having climbed the ladder at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than three decades, the Venezuelan-born administrator and electrical engineer is now settling into the top job as the school’s 17th president."
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WBUR

"Rafael Reif, the 17th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formally took office Friday with a stern warning for the school about some major challenges that it and other research universities are facing."
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Wired

"The widely held and devoutly believed idea that a big play can change the momentum of a game is, in a word, bunk. So say a trio of MIT stats geeks with a decade of data to back them up."
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Forbes

"From MIT Startup Bootcamp to Grace Hopper Celebration, from PITCH Conference to Girl Geek Dinners, there’s no shortage of things to do for a woman interested in tech and entrepreneurship."
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Nature

"Bacteria reproduce themselves rapidly — but could we make them faster still?"
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New Scientist

"What if you constantly change the ingredients in your raw batter, but the baked cake is always lemon? It sounds like something from a surrealist film, but equivalent scenarios seem to play out all the time in the mathematics of the quantum world."
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BBC News

"Ever wished you'd never met your boss and your colleagues were holograms?"
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The Boston Globe

"It sounds like a late-night freshman dorm debate after a marathon viewing of the “Matrix” trilogy: What if we’re all just bits and bytes in someone else’s computer simulation?"
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Bloomberg News

"Uranium’s recovery from the Fukushima nuclear accident may take one or two years longer than analysts estimated as stockpiles in Japan and Germany keep prices low and cause mining companies to defer new development."
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