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"'If you are trying to prepare business students for the world and you are not taking into account digital technology, you are failing in your mission,' said Andrew McAfee , a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"Baxter, the $22,000 industrial robot manufactured in the US for US manufacturing companies, could find applications in more personal settings, including eldercare, in the not-too-distant future."

"Thanks to a new technique developed by Kripa Varanasi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues, condensing drops of water are able to zip around like pucks on an air hockey table, a behaviour that could be exploited to make industrial condensers more efficient."

"The engineers think it's a flaw they can work with to make a super-strong molecular filtering system."

"Many of the bedrock assumptions of American culture — about work, progress, fairness and optimism — are being shaken as successive generations worry about the prospect of declining living standards."

"In what may be a sign of the growth of science and technology in international education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrestled the top spot in the new U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings away from University of Cambridge, which was No. 1 for the past two years."

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"A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is also building a sequencer called SETG (Search for Extraterrestrial Genomes), that will search for DNA or RNA from past or present life."

"MIT Media Lab Director, venture capitalist, and Internet luminary Joi Ito shares his plans for making the lab more open."

"If branch campuses are often intellectual islands, with little local spillover, these upstart institutions are being built in the spirit of MIT's motto, Mens et Manus, or Mind and Hand. They are meant to have real-world impact."

"And a study, released this week by Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reports that new technologies have helped reduce disqualified ballots, increased the accuracy of mail-in voting and improved voter registration records."

"Do conservatives give more away? According to a new study by two MIT political scientists, not really."

"If Mitt Romney wins election, what will he actually do?" -MIT's Meg Jacobs

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"Rothberg said Ion Torrent is working with Harvard and MIT to modify the company's personal genome machine for use on Mars as part of a NASA-funded project called SET-G, or 'the search for extraterrestrial genomes.'"