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Boston Herald

"The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center plan to announce the first recipients of funding from The Bridge Project, a research alliance between the two schools designed to bring bioengineering and clinical oncology together to solve challenging problems in cancer research and care."
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Boston Herald

"Even though it’s cool to be a nerd nowadays (Do you know people are always like, 'OH HEY I’M A GEEK!' expecting a round of applause?) sometimes some people need a little extra help."
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Wired

"Google’s app platform clearly needs a helpful boost, and thanks to a series of new initiatives, the Android Market could see an uptick in both quantity and quality sooner than you think."
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The Washington Post

"Marc Raibert, a former MIT professor who is among the world’s foremost authorities in robot locomotion, sent a note to announce that his company’s Cheetah robot had broken the robot land speed record, clocking in at 18 mph on a treadmill in this video."
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The New York Times

"Although the pictures and sound in digital television are transmitted together (the technical term is “multiplexed”), they are 'separate streams of data and are processed by separate hardware and/or software paths at television stations and in TV receivers,' said V. Michael Bove Jr. of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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Forbes

"Saturday at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston was Day 2 of the MIT Sports Analytics Conference hosted by MIT’s Sloan Graduate School of Management."
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CNN

"It was after the robotic hummingbird flew around the auditorium -- and after a speaker talked about the hypersonic plane that could fly from New York to the West Coast in 11 minutes -- that things got really edgy."
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The New York Times

"On Feb. 13, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has been posting course materials online for 10 years, opened registration for its first MOOC, a circuits and electronics course."
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The Boston Globe

"As far as MIT is concerned, Jacob Hurwitz is a pirate. The sophomore has the certificate to prove it. Hurwitz 'is no longer a lily-livered landlubber,’ the MIT document affirms."
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The Boston Herald

"'Moneyball' is spreading beyond baseball, thanks in part to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which kicks off its sixth year today at Hynes Convention Center."
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New Scientist

"Dead psychedelic chemical gel comes back to life 10:54 2 March 2012 Exclusives Physics and Math Caitlin Stier, video intern A colour-changing gel driven by a classic chemical reaction can now be resuscitated by adding pressure after the reaction has stabilised. Developed by Irene Chou Chen, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it's the first time oscillations in a responsive gel have been revived by a mechanical trigger."
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CNN Money

"You know that investing can be tough. Andrew Lo (of MIT) says it's even tougher than you think."
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The Boston Globe

"The Review listed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the nation’s second-best undergraduate program in game design, bested only by the University of Southern California."
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CNN

"The complex architecture of the human brain and how its billions of nerve cells communicate has baffled the greatest minds for centuries."
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Reuters

"Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, respectively, is a wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don't."
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