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Blowin' in the wind

04 Nov 2009 19:00:00 PST

Written by gillooly@mit.edu (David L. Chandler, MIT News Office)
The planned turbine, a Skystream 3.7 with a rated output of 2.4 kilowatts, about enough to power an average home, is a gift from Philip Deutch as a tribute to his father, Institute Professor John Deutch. In addition to providing some power for lighting on the Briggs Field, the turbine would pr...

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Back to (brain) basics

02 Nov 2009 20:00:00 PST

Written by gillooly@mit.edu (Anne Trafton, MIT News Office)
Successes like these prove the value of basic research, says Constantine Stratakis, director of scientific programs for the NIH’s National Institute of Childhood Health and Human Development. In fact, the lines between basic and clinical research are becoming increasingly blurred...

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Podcast: OCTOBERRR

31 Oct 2009 14:08:04 PDT

Written by Chris S. '11
The sun is rising outside, peeking over the Charles. But that's okay. It's just another day in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And I'm taking 4 classes at MIT - two history, two science. After dropping 7.06 (Cell Biology), I'm currently taking 9.01 (Neuroscience), 7.30 (Ecology I), 21H.466 (Imperia...

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Opinion: The Explainer: P vs. NP

28 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PDT

Written by gillooly@mit.edu (Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office)
Sipser also says that “the P-versus-NP problem has become broadly recognized in the mathematical community as a mathematical question that is fundamental and important and beautiful. I think it has helped bridge the mathematics and computer science communities.”

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A new way to measure muscle

27 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PDT

Written by gillooly@mit.edu (Anne Trafton, MIT News Office)
Dawson and his colleagues describe the latest generation of the EIM probe in a paper they have submitted to the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. They presented the first generation probe at the IEEE International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference last year.

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Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today

23 Oct 2009 09:42:54 PDT

Written by Matt McGann '00
Susan Hockfield has served as the 16th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since December 2004. A noted neuroscientist focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as Professor of N...

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MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology news and blogs - November 08, 2009

08 Nov 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.

• Fusion isn't only happening in labs at MIT -- from Students
• Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve -- by gillooly@mit.edu (Anne Trafton, MIT News Office) from homepage
• Sights and Sounds -- by Hamsika C. '13 from MIT Admissions | All Authors
• Amherst Street construction site fire causes no injuries -- from Students
• MIT team finishes fifth overall in solar electric vehicle race -- from Students
• -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com MIT Institute OR Picower OR "Broad Institute" OR "Susan Hockfield" OR "Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research" OR Technology OR Massachusetts OR linguistics OR science OR faculty OR Willmore OR Cognitive OR Engineering OR "Stata Center" OR "brain and cognitive sciences" OR M.L. OR "MA 1" OR "Massachusetts Avenue" OR "New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference" OR "William Barton Rogers" OR Joselit OR Enrollments OR Zizek OR Krueger OR "humanities arts and social sciences" OR McGovern OR "honorary degrees" OR undergraduate OR undergraduates OR "National Medal of Science" OR "Charles Stark Draper Laboratory" OR Cambridge
• Data points of light -- from Students
• On a Liberal Education for the 21st Century | World -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com MIT Institute OR Picower OR "Broad Institute" OR "Susan Hockfield" OR "Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research" OR Technology OR Massachusetts OR linguistics OR science OR faculty OR Willmore OR Cognitive OR Engineering OR "Stata Center" OR "brain and cognitive sciences" OR M.L. OR "MA 1" OR "Massachusetts Avenue" OR "New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference" OR "William Barton Rogers" OR Joselit OR Enrollments OR Zizek OR Krueger OR "humanities arts and social sciences" OR McGovern OR "honorary degrees" OR undergraduate OR undergraduates OR "National Medal of Science" OR "Charles Stark Draper Laboratory" OR Cambridge
• Ensuring Educational Access: Our Challenge, Our Opportunity | World -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com MIT Institute OR Picower OR "Broad Institute" OR "Susan Hockfield" OR "Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research" OR Technology OR Massachusetts OR linguistics OR science OR faculty OR Willmore OR Cognitive OR Engineering OR "Stata Center" OR "brain and cognitive sciences" OR M.L. OR "MA 1" OR "Massachusetts Avenue" OR "New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference" OR "William Barton Rogers" OR Joselit OR Enrollments OR Zizek OR Krueger OR "humanities arts and social sciences" OR McGovern OR "honorary degrees" OR undergraduate OR undergraduates OR "National Medal of Science" OR "Charles Stark Draper Laboratory" OR Cambridge
• AMS, OSA Confirm Cooperation with MIT Faculty Open Access Policy -- by Ellen Duranceau from MIT Libraries News » Scholarly Communication

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Opinion: The easy way to go green

19 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PDT

At last Friday's Energy Night at the MIT Museum, Dr. Keith Collins described his approach to fighting global warming with all the gusto of a really good insurance salesman. But Collins, who graduated from MIT in 1970 with a degree in political science, wasn't actually selling anything. He w...

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Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser!

12 Oct 2009 11:51:53 PDT

Written by Snively '11
2:33 -- Internships are also very popular. MIT has connections with places around Cambridge, Boston, and the world. MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiative) helps send students to other countries to do research with partnering businesses.

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Opinion: Product Design, MIT style

27 Sep 2009 22:15:32 PDT

Written by Laura N. '09
The class is called The Product Development Process (or something like that, but who really cares? just call it 2.009 like a normal person) and all of the seniors in Mechanincal Engineering are split into teams, which are identified by color. (So there's Blue, Orange, Silver, Red, and of co...

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Opinion: Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13

10 Aug 2009 06:34:34 PDT

Written by Matt McGann '00
Still, Trevor Zinser says he was unsure he could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston to sway him to choose MIT over Harvard or Stanford. He says exceptional teachers, particularly science teacher Dave Sherden, worked hard to make classes deep and engaging.

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A phone is not just a phone

01 Jul 2009 22:00:00 PDT

For commercial transport, a company called Hammock aims to provide a way for shippers to connect with truckers, allowing for a better coordination of resources so that trucks are less likely to travel half-full, and farmers, for example, can get their goods to market without fear of spo...

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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. ...

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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 »

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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 ...

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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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Beaker Hill: Synthetic Biology @ iGEM 2008 (Part 1)

12 Nov 2008 12:00:00 PST

Written by Matt Feltz
Over the weekend, one of the most prestigious student research contests took place in the labyrinthine halls of MIT’s Stata Center. 2008 marked the fifth year of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, in which 84 teams created anything they could think o...

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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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MIT To Say No More Nerds?

16 Oct 2008 13:00:00 PDT

Written by Kerry Skemp
Most people [at MIT] are so happy in their free, oversized math and science T-shirts," MIT political science major Christine Yu (who writes the Tech's "Talk Nerdy to Me" sex column) told the Globe. "They like wearing the periodic table to class." That's totally reasonable--so why make the...

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Opinion: Introduction to D-Lab

14 Oct 2008 21:26:54 PDT

Written by Paul B. '11
When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing to leaps to mind is almost always computer science, physics, or some other aspect of science and engineering. As important as it is, international development isn't exactly something MIT is world-renowned for. Yet.

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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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Scientist in Tenure Fight With MIT Is Locked Out of his Lab

02 Jul 2007 12:21:44 PDT

James L. Sherley, a stem-cell biologist who went on a 12-day hunger strike in February to protest his tenure denial at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reached the end of his term of employment at the institute on Friday — and met the scheduled event with more protest.

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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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Developing Future Leaders

19 Nov 2005 22:36:22 PST

Woodie Flowers believes MIT must be in the business of producing students with far-reaching goals and the skills to attain them: The 21st century demands the Â“technologically literate and philosophically grounded,Â” he says. Engineering students who typically ask, Â“Why donÂ’t yo...

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