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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"So if your alma mater’s name appears in a news article, a blog posting, or a Tweet, the company’s tracking system will collect it, analyze it, and rank it against the names of other institutions. In the most recent rankings of American universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took the top spot."
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Wired

"Printers can make mugs, chocolate and even blood vessels. Now, MIT scientists want to add robo-assistants to the list of printable goodies."
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The Wall Street Journal

"Virtual agents will allow people to do what they do, even when they aren't doing it." -MIT's Michael Schrage
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The Wall Street Journal

"In many companies, the relationship between IT and business leaders is a very troubled marriage indeed." -MIT's George Westerman
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The Boston Globe

"Professor Seth Teller of the university’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is trying to create life-saving devices for police, paramedics, and other first responders."
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Popular Science

"It sounds like something out of a fantasy film: a vat of sand into which you plunge a small object only to watch the sand bind together to form larger copies of the same object."
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New Scientist

"Their 'smart sand' is made up of individual grains that are really one centimetre square cubes with microprocessors inside and switchable magnets on four of their six faces which can talk to each other electronically and sense their neighbors."
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The Boston Globe

"How will voters know their votes will be counted accurately?"
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CNN

"My name is Jose Gomez Marquez and I use toys to make affordable medical devices."
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The Economist

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are bridging the gap between military robots and their human counterparts, by teaching drones to understand human gestures."
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Nature

"When Samuel Ting got up to give his plenary talk at the opening session of the American Physicial Society’s spring meeting here in Atlanta on 31 March, the vast hotel ballroom was close to standing-room only."
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The Economist

"With its share price soaring as the latest iPad storms the market, Apple might be tempted to forget about the fuss over its labour practices. But that would be a mistake."
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The Huffington Post

"MIT researchers, however, look to be turning that model on its head, unveiling interesting new research that suggests 3-D designs could dramatically increase the solar power generated from a given area."
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The Wall Street Journal

"America's debt is $15.6 trillion and growing. Instead of raising taxes, here's an idea: Let's try capitalism."
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Forbes

"Duflo and her co-author Abhijit Banerjee run MIT’s Poverty Action Lab, where they use randomized control experiments – a model borrowed from drug testing – to evaluate the effectiveness of development projects."
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