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Meet Maker Culture's MIT Stars



Latest news for friends of MIT.

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Logo: Tech Connections
May 2014

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IN THIS ISSUE

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Maker Culture
How Brains Pay Attention
Cough Contagion
Research & Discovery
  Erasing Genetic Mutations
  Designing Living Materials
  Microbes and Mass Extinction
Student Prize Winners
MIT Shines at TED's 30th
Black Literature
Quantum Computing Switch
Underwater Dreams
Campus
  Caltech Hacks MIT
  Gap Year Students
  Humans of MIT
Slice of MIT
›  Infinite Zero Footprints
  What's Next for Oculus?
  Making Waves Podcast


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Maker Culture's MIT Stars
Maker Culture
PopMech honored seven MIT makers, including Eric Wilhelm '99, SM '01, PhD '04 and Christy Canida '99, shown in their Dune-themed Halloween costumes.
Maker culture has swept through technology circles, bolstering invention, celebrating hands-on construction, and encouraging do-it-yourselfers—to be more like the MIT community. In fact, seven of the "25 Makers Who Are Reinventing the American Dream" recently honored in Popular Mechanics hail from MIT. "My MIT experience was instrumental," says Ayah Bdeir SM '06, founder of littleBits. "As soon as I set foot in the Media Lab, I learnt a whole new way of looking at engineering." Find out who was honored and why maker culture is hot now.

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How Brains Pay Attention
Neuroscientists identified a brain circuit that shifts focus from one object to another.

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Sneeze, Cough Contagion
Coughs and sneezes stay airborne for longer distances than previously thought.

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Research & Discovery

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Erasing a Genetic Mutation
An MIT team reversed a liver disorder in mice by correcting a mutated gene, which provides the first evidence that the gene-editing technique, CRISPR, can reverse disease symptoms in living animals.
Engineers Design Living Materials
living material
Working with E. coli bacteria, MIT engineers have designed a way to produce gold nanowires that conduct electricity; they produced biofilms that can incorporate nonliving materials.
Microbes Caused Largest Mass Extinction?
An MIT team has found that methane-producing microbes are responsible for the largest mass extinction on Earth. Three sets of evidence from around 252 million years ago, when some 90 percent of all species suddenly died, bear them out.

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Three from MIT Win Lemelson-MIT Student Prizes
Media Arts and Sciences doctoral candidate David Sengeh SM '12, one of three MIT winners of the national prizes, was honored for his development of wearable, mechanical interfaces that improve comfort and mobility for amputees.

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MIT All Stars Shine at TED's 30th
TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) Talks' 30th anniversary in March featured many MIT speakers including Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte '66, MArch '66, whose 1984 TED talk predicted tablet computing and online shopping.

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Sandy Alexandre
Black Literature
Sandy Alexandre explores the complex relationship between black literature and history.

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Quantum Computing Tool
Light lattice that traps atoms may help build quantum information transmitter networks.

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Underwater Dreams Features MIT ROV Team
MIT alumni of the 2004 Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) team are featured in a new documentary, Underwater Dreams, the story of four teenagers from an impoverished area of Arizona who competed against them.

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Campus

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Caltech Hacks MIT
Reviving a historic rivalry, Caltech students pranked MIT pre-frosh during Campus Preview Weekend, April 11–13. They handed out mugs that read "MIT" until filled with hot liquid and then this appeared: "Caltech: the Hotter Institute of Technology." See alumni responses on Facebook.
Gap Year Students Enrich the Class of 2018 Mix
Several members of the Class of 2018 took a gap year and their adventures ranged from teaching in a Tanzanian village to working in a San Francisco startup on the verge of acquisition.
Meet the Humans (and Robots) of MIT
Patterned on the Humans of New York blog, four current MIT students created Humans of MIT, a Facebook page that profiles community members through a single photo and the subject's own words.

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Slice of MIT

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Leaving Zero Footprints in the Infinite Corridor
Enjoy an April Fools' jest about a proposed moving walkway, Zero Footprint, that would allow the MIT community to safely text while traveling the Infinite Corridor.

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Facebook Just Acquired Us. What's Next?
The morning after Facebook announced its $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR, company COO and acting CFO Laird Malamed '89 phoned Slice of MIT to share the news.

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Alum Books Podcast: Making Waves
Hear Fredric Raichlen SM '55, ScD '62, a Caltech civil engineering professor emeritus, talk about his new book, Waves, via a new Alum Books Podcast.

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