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"Joichi Ito initially thought he wouldn’t be a good fit for MIT."

"It's like being in Silicon Valley in the 1990s for energy here now. There are some amazing professors ... Even Obama came here to talk about energy research." - Ben Wheeler, an graduate student in the Leaders for Global Operations program, on being at MIT. The story is part of CNET's series on students and tech jobs.

“Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo — both professors at M.I.T. — have helped changed the practice of economics.”

"CoolChip Technologies yesterday won the MIT Clean Energy Prize for developing a technology that reduces data centers’ cooling needs, said NStar, one of the sponsors."

“When they started iRobot Corp. in 1990, MIT grads Helen Greiner and Colin Angle knew they wanted to build robots; they’d figure out their business model later.” - Part of the special section on MIT at 150

“Imagine a piece of metal 30,000 times thinner than one of the hairs on your head. Mixed with a little protein from bee venom, that microscopic filament becomes the most powerful explosives-detection system in history, able to detect a single molecule of dangerous chemicals.”

"During a panel discussion—moderated by linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker—that kicked off MIT’s Brains, Minds, and Machines symposium, panelists called for a return to the style of research that marked the early years of the field, one driven more by curiosity rather than narrow applications."

"A Boston company that plans to make synthetic jet fuel from grease and animal fat is among five teams vying for MIT’s $200,000 Clean Energy Prize."

"Banerjee's studies have shown that for the poor, improving their quality of life is just as important as improving their nutrition."

"The last symposium in M.I.T.'s 150-day celebration of its 150th anniversary is devoted to the question: 'Whatever happened to AI?'"

"The next space-shuttle launch will inaugurate a quest for a realm of the Universe that few believe exists."

"Drawing inspiration from the beetle’s fog-harvesting trick, Shreerang Chhatre, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues have developed a simple and inexpensive way to produce drinking water."

“We don’t want him to be a martyr,” said Jim Walsh, a Mideast terrorism expert at MIT. “We don’t want him in his death to accomplish more than in his life."

"But yesterday, in an open house attended by thousands of the awestruck, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology swung wide its doors to places, people, and preposterously ingenious projects that the public rarely sees."

"The festival begins Saturday with a campus-wide open house at MIT that includes free admission to the MIT Museum, at 265 Massachusetts Ave., and a number of demonstrations and activities in celebration of MIT’s 150th anniversary."