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Annual Technology Day Report 2010

From Technology Day 2010 Against the Grain: The Power of Thinking Differently

MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT alumni gathered in Kresge Auditorium for the annual Technology Day event.
"The research in the Koch Institute (for Integrated Cancer Research at MIT) has shifted far more toward directed research … it’s an interesting switch as it also brings the biologists much closer to the engineers and makes it easier for them to have the kinds of conversations that will create breakthrough technologies.” — Susan Hockfield


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