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MIT campus in the centre

17 Jun 2009 10:01:41 PDT

New Zealand By ROMY UDANGA - Manukau Courier MIT AT HAYMAN PARK: Manukau transport manager Chris Freke, mayor Len Brown, MIT acting chief executive Peter Quigg and business faculty head John Robertson look over the site of mit's new campus and transport. ...

Original story at Stuff.co.nz .

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Nokia Prototype Charges With Wireless Electricity

17 Jun 2009 09:15:56 PDT

Rouvala told the MIT Technology Review that current prototypes can harvest 3 to 5 milliwatts. Rouvala said Nokia's goal is to create a prototype that can harvest up to 50 milliwatts, which could recharge a device that is turned off. ...

Original story at Wireless Week .

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Opinion: A Camera from a Sheet of Fiber

16 Jun 2009 21:09:01 PDT

MA Now researchers at MIT have integrated a collection of light sensors into polymer fibers, creating a new type of camera. Yoel Fink, a professor of materials sciences and engineering and the lead researcher on the project, notes that a standard camera ...

Original story at MIT Technology Review .

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Big brains reax to NOAA global warming warnings

16 Jun 2009 12:59:53 PDT

The MIT Technology Review previously glommed onto the temperature rises contained in the NOAA global warming report. Ten degrees or more before the end of this century. Kansas, for example, would have 120 days of highs topping 90 degrees. ...

Original story at ZDNet .

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Email – The Original Social Graph

16 Jun 2009 06:39:12 PDT

MA I've been an Internet email user since early 1984 when I got my first Project Athena account as an undergraduate at MIT. Notwithstanding all the “email is dead” messages over the years, I continue to use email as my primary online communication ...

Original story at beta.technologyreview.com .

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A Cheap Route to Robust leds

15 Jun 2009 13:43:06 PDT

MA MIT chemical-engineering professor Karen Gleason and MIT postdoc Sreeram Vaddiraju have developed a process that aims to solve the problems of high fabrication costs and instability for oleds while still maintaining their flexibility. ...

Original story at MIT Technology Review .

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MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology news and blogs - July 05, 2009

05 Jul 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• IIT-K professor gets science award -- from Times of India
• Economists React: For New Financial Regulations, Devil's in the ... -- from New York Times
• Think Community? Think Maps! (Going to MIT. Part One) -- from MediaShift Idea Lab
• Best friends meeting Ivy League dreams -- from San Antonio Express
• Boston-Power Founder and CEO Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud Named ... - Earthtimes -- from press release
• Jean Tirole wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in ... - EurekAlert -- from press release
• The Transformative Gawad Kalinga Way -- from Inquirer.net
• America is losing its industrial capacity to ship astronauts -- from Wired News
• McCaskey tech students might wear uniforms -- from Lancaster Newspapers
• Junk Science Week: MIT's unscientific, catastrophic climate forecast -- from National Post

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Giant Leaps celebrates Apollo, looks to future missions - Media Newswire

15 Jun 2009 04:44:49 PDT

Media Newswire (press release), NY Joking about Seamans' MIT roots, Armstrong quipped that when there was an early dispute between NASA centers on whether to use English or metric units, "Bob held out for Smoots." MIT President Susan Hockfield, in introducing a daylong Giant Leaps ...

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VHHS's last valedictorian, salutatorian bids adieu

11 Jun 2009 02:07:00 PDT

LX: This coming fall I will attend MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, Mass. I plan to major in chemical engineering and hope to minor ... and more »

Original story at Pioneer Press Online .

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Ambient power

10 Jun 2009 04:59:17 PDT

guardian.co.uk Finland Reported in the MIT Technology Review, NRC researcher Markku Rouvala talks about how the system works. Basically it's based on the same idea as an RFID tag, converting electromagnetic waves into an electrical signal. The focus of the research team's ...

Original story at Nokia Conversations .

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Europe set to meet Kyoto Protocol

09 Jun 2009 17:25:37 PDT

MN As the MIT Technology Review reports, the bill is 946 pages long and peppered with loopholes . Most notably, certain industries will be awarded allocations for greenhouse gas emissions based on how much they produce in the first place. ...

Original story at Minnesota Daily .

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Patch: New version of MIT Kerberos

08 Jun 2009 09:39:11 PDT

Help Net Security UK The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released version 1.7 of its Kerberos network suite. The previous release, version 1.6.3, contained several known security vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-0844, CVE-2009-0845, CVE-2009-0846 and ...

Original story at The H .

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Opinion: University rankings: research and faculty quality

06 Jun 2009 14:40:19 PDT

MA The natural science index result is also interesting (natural science includes math, engineering, computer science as well as physics, chemistry, biology, etc.). Caltech's score is 3.36, followed by Stanford 1.21, MIT 1.16, Harvard .93, Berkeley .92, ...

Original story at MIT Technology Review .

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Patrick tells MIT grads they can turn this economy around

05 Jun 2009 09:32:53 PDT

Boston Globe MA NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Cambridge, Mass.) - Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick delivered the commencement address this morning at MIT. 2200 students received their degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Patrick said despite these ...

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More about “The Perceptual Form of the City” study in Archives’ May exhibit

01 May 2009 03:24:35 PDT

Written by Lois Beattie
The May Object of the Month exhibit by the Institute Archives and Special Collections illustrates some of the experiences of researchers in the five-year study of the city environment directed by MIT Professors Kevin Lynch and Gygory Kepes from 1954 to 1959. “The Perceptual Form of the C...

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Opinion: MIT, Portuguese government strengthen joint research agenda

29 Apr 2009 10:47:56 PDT

It is based on thorough discussions undertaken in recent months among Portuguese and MIT faculty, in close consultation with industry in Portugal and the Program's External Review Committee. Minister Gago, emphasizing the importance of the ...

Original story at MIT Campus News .

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MIT is "Hacked"

01 Apr 2009 07:41:12 PDT

Written by Snively '11
Roses are Red Violets are Blue If I went to Harvard, I'd hate myself too I've got wonderful stories about Harvard that I'll be more than happy to tell you if you come to CPW, but our first story about Harvard is brought to you by, well, Harvard. Dear Zug, Yours Truly, MIT

Original story at MIT Admissions .

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Podcast: Friendship

28 Mar 2009 09:37:08 PDT

Written by Snively '11
Here's how it started, with an e-mail to me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about presenting ElectroPlushies at an upcoming MIT Science and Engineering Business Club event. Our toy design professor, Barry, sent us this: thanks! barry

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New Podcast: Professor JoAnne Yates on Making MIT Sloan Teaching Materials Openly Available

16 Mar 2009 06:42:46 PDT

Written by Ellen Duranceau
Tags:Current Mortgage Rates The latest in the series of podcasts on scholarly publication and copyright is an interview with Professor JoAnne Yates, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and Deputy Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. She speaks about the new MIT Sloan we...

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Opinion: N.Y. Times, Page B11: "MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix"

05 Feb 2009 21:49:28 PST

Written by Matt McGann '00
A 6-foot-4 guard, Bartolotta is averaging 27.8 points a game, best in the New England Men’s and Women’s Athletics Conference and third best in Division III. He has led the Engineers to a 16-5 record and their best conference start at 7-1.

Original story at MIT Admissions .

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Podcast: Banditos Misteriosos

25 Oct 2008 18:02:49 PDT

Written by Snively '11
A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from Boston. A group called the "Banditos Misteriosos" runs flash mobs in Boston. I got an e-mail informing me that there was to be another flash mob, this time Halloween themed! Here's the gist of it:

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Opinion: MIT Medical: A Freshman's Story

14 Aug 2008 15:16:00 PDT

Written by Paul B. '11
MIT Medlinks MIT Emergency Medical Services (EMTs) MIT Police Homepage MIT Nightline: 617-253-8800 (anonymous peer-listening service run by student volunteers) Boston Area Rape Crisis Center: 1-800-841-8371 MIT Emergency Phone Numbers

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Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack

12 Aug 2008 09:04:54 PDT

The temporary restraining order, issued by a US district judge in Massachusetts, prevented the Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from demonstrating at the Defcon conference in Las Vegas how to use the vulnerabilities to get ...

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Podcast: Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins!

18 Jan 2008 08:01:04 PST

Written by Matt McGann '00
One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description, you s...

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Opinion: Ambulance! Ambulance!

09 Jan 2008 21:08:28 PST

Written by Jess K. '10
MIT-EMS (Emergency Medical Service) is a student-run volunteer ambulance service that provides basic life support to the MIT campus in Cambridge, as well as part of Boston, and runs 24/7 - which means a large number of greatly desired overnight shifts, many of which I have been taking la...

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Podcast: MacKenzie Smith interviewed about Digital Libraries Research Projects

16 Mar 2006 13:18:31 PST

Written by Nicole Hennig
The Educause web site has made available an audio file (MP3) of an interview with MacKenzie Smith (Associate Director for Technology) about topics such as the Science Commons, governance of DSpace, the MIT Libraries’ investigation of Semantic Web technology via the SIMILE project, g...

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