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TIME

"MIT’s future students receive their acceptance letters in shimmering silver cardboard tubes. It’s more of a legacy item – the mailing used to contain a poster – but now it’s simply a postmarked reminder of the school’s uniqueness. And to highlight that trait this year, the MIT admissions staff put a note into each accepted student’s tube asking him or her to 'hack' the tube."
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Boston Herald

"MIT has recreated 'Spacewar!' — one of the world’s first computer games — to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the influential precursor to today’s video games."
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New Scientist

"Half-moth, half machine, a new generation of remote-controlled insects could one day be used as spies."
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Wired

"'How do fads spread through a community?' asks Alex Pentland, director of MIT's Human Dynamics Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
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Wired

"The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life."
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Financial Times

"For me it means that I am at the crossroads of different populations and that I have a responsibility to bridge the gaps of knowledge, be it academic or simply that of the human self." -Valérie Gauthier, visiting professor at Sloan on what it means to be a professor.
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USA Today

"To Jarrod Goentzel, energy is just another supply chain problem: the product being delivered is electrons."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Open-education efforts like the free lecture materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and producing free online textbooks are relatively new, and advocates face questions about how to pay for such projects and how to maintain their quality."
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Wired

"New research out of MIT shows that going electric could save urban delivery fleets some serious money in the long term, as long as their trucks end up giving power back to the grid when they’re not in use."
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The Boston Globe

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered the secrets behind the strength of spider silk and webs, and it could change the way engineered structures like bridges, planes, and even Internet servers are built."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"The recent announcement that Massachusetts Institute of Technology would give certificates around free online course materials has fueled further debate about whether employers may soon welcome new kinds of low-cost credentials."
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New Scientist

"In Connectome: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are, Sebastian Seung explores the mapping of our circuitry and how much it can tell us about ourselves."
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Popular Science

"Scott Aaronson, a scientist at MIT who works mostly with theoretical quantum computers, issued a challenge to all of those deniers out there: prove that 'scalable quantum computing is impossible in the physical world,' and Aaronson will personally pony up $100,000 to the winner."
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NPR

"For millions of people in the developing world, one thing stands between them and a job or an education: a good pair of glasses."
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NPR

"A while back, the MIT economist Andrew Lo set out to review a couple books about the financial crisis. Those books led to a couple more books, which led — you see where this is going — to 17 more books."
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