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Experts express concern about America's innovative future, according to a new Lemelson-MIT report

April 21, 2004

Four from MIT elected to NAS

April 20, 2004

Cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Expedition 9 commander, works with the torso portion of an Extravehicular Mobility Unit space suit during a training session in the International Space Station (ISS) Quest airlock mockup/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center. Astronaut Edward Michael (Mike) Fincke, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, looks over a procedures...

Alumnus blasts off for half a year in space

April 16, 2004

Triathletes Ken Ross, a computational biologist at the Broad Institute, left, and Harn Wei Kua, an MIT graduate student in architecture and mechanical engineering, train by the Charles River. Ken will run in the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 19.

The Boston Marathon ain't so tough

April 16, 2004

Web inventor Berners-Lee wins $1.2 million award

April 16, 2004

Left: To detect and destroy an enemy missile, microwave energy is targeted on the missile while simultaneously nullifying enemy jammers. Right: To kill a cancerous tumor, microwave energy is focused on the tumor while simultaneously nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding health tissue.

MIT aims radar research at breast cancer

April 15, 2004

Professor emeritus Whitehead of mathematics dies at 85

April 15, 2004

Mars work gets a lift from MIT

Serendipity and Institute scientists play key roles in water discoveries

April 14, 2004

Margaret Atwood speaks with freshmen Linroy Marshall (center) and Tabitha Bonilla during a class visit.

Novels need 'blood in the cookie,' Atwood says

April 14, 2004

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April 14, 2004

Author Margaret Atwood speaks to an MIT writing class last week.

Good novels 'need some blood in the cookie,' Atwood says

April 13, 2004

Joy Harjo performs with her band. She will read from her recent book "How We Became Human" on April 14.

Poet and saxophonist Joy Harjo to visit April 14

April 7, 2004

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April 7, 2004

Sophomore Sandra Yu at the Ruggles Orange Line subway stop.

Students plunge into inner-city volunteer work

April 7, 2004

Objects can be defined both by intrinsic and contextual cues. In image (a), some of the runner's faces have enough intrinsic information to permit their classification as faces based on local image structure (b), while others almost entirely lack such intrinsic cues (c) and rely on contextual information. Many real-world viewing situations (such as observing objects at a distance, through haze or ...

New insights into how we recognize faces

April 7, 2004

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Experts express concern about America's innovative future, according to a new Lemelson-MIT report

Four from MIT elected to NAS

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The Boston Marathon ain't so tough

Web inventor Berners-Lee wins $1.2 million award

MIT aims radar research at breast cancer

Professor emeritus Whitehead of mathematics dies at 85

Mars work gets a lift from MIT

Novels need 'blood in the cookie,' Atwood says

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Good novels 'need some blood in the cookie,' Atwood says

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