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The Boston Globe

"MIT and Princeton University have developed a method to examine how multiple effects of climate change- including the combination of sea-level rise and stronger hurricanes- will affect storm surges that wash over sea walls and inundate communities, damaging buildings and infrastructure."
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BBC News

"An electronics course, beginning in March, will be the first prototype of an online project, known as MITx."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Want to learn the basics of what goes inside your smartphone and computer? You can get a better grasp of that gadgetry in a free online course announced today by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—the first class to open in the institute’s closely watched new interactive online learning venture, MITx."
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Bloomberg Businessweek

"For would-be MBAs with a desire to work in finance, Sloan's increasingly popular one-year MFin program may be a good fit, says MIT's Andrew Lo."
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Forbes

"A few years ago, a group of rising-star executives gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to take part in a special competitive event."
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Bloomberg

"When unexpected challenges arise, what ideas are acceptably crazy? Which ideas are too crazy? Which ideas are so crazy that no one looks at or listens to their champions quite the same way ever again?" -MIT's Michael Schrage
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CNN Money

"The Netra clips to a phone and users tap buttons on the touchscreen display until images seen in the Netra are aligned. The device can measure for nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism."
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Scientific American

"While on sabbatical from RMIT University in Melbourne, Associate Professor Dr Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, joined MIT Associate Professor Michael Strano’s nanotechnology research group and together accidentally discovered a new way to generate power."
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The Wall Street Journal

"But far from squelching demand for the most expensive pieces, high prices have only made gold more alluring, retailers say."
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The Huffington Post

"Education is the next part of the economy that's going to be disrupted in massive ways."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"The personal archive of the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky will go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, the university announced today."
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The Wall Street Journal

"Tim Berners-Lee, who teaches at MIT and is considered one of the fathers of the Web, testified Tuesday about the early days of the web, as part of a case brought by a patent-licensing company called Eolas, and in which Google, Amazon and Yahoo are defendants, according to Wired."
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Slate

"The New Scientist reports that as part of a program by DARPA, the military research group, scientists from MIT have found a way to control the movements of 'cyborg' moths."
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CBS Boston

"It is a constant fight during the winter months to prevent warm air from seeping from our homes, but new high definition infrared thermal images are making it easier to detect where the leaks are."
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Reuters

"Some 600,000 skilled manufacturing positions are unfilled in the United States, according to a survey by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute."
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