Today, people in Silicon Valley and elsewhere speak of the IITs, the Indian Institutes of Technology with the same reverence they used to accord to MIT.

Professor Havemeyer of MIT, for example, points out it's possible, in light of our meagre knowledge.

And this is particularly interesting, because MIT doesn't have an honor code.

These are the graduates of the first Ecole de Chabon, or Charcoal Institute. And these that's right. So I'm actually an instructor at MIT as well as CIT.

In my lab, which we're peering into now, at MIT this is at the media lab.

We looked at an MIT study ten million electric cars on the global roads.

Two years ago, I was the highest rated lecturer at MIT's entrepreneurial master's program.

I was also building something called the Copenhagen Wheel, which is just a really beautiful, beautiful electric bike at a lab at MIT called SENSEable City Lab.

They're MIT undergraduates.

In 1994, Berners Lee transformed the Internet when he established the World Wide Web Consortium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

So I've started a lab at MIT, and it's called the Self Assembly Lab.

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So, we got people to sign, I understand that this short survey falls under the MIT Honor Code.

He's at MIT.

A single strand dipped in water that completely self folds on its own into the letters M I T.

You were in what they called the saltwater camp, meaning Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, or you were in the freshwater camp, University of Chicago, University of Rochester.

Furthermore, MIT has developed the foldable electric CityCar, four of which can fit into a conventional parking space. At last year s Rio 20 conference, the eight largest multilateral development banks pledged 175 billion to develop sustainable transportation.

What happened back a few years ago was a group of theoretical physicists at MIT actually came up with this concept of transferring power over distance.

No. These are economists from MIT, from Carnegie Mellon, from the University of Chicago.

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The first experiment I walked around MIT and I distributed six packs of Cokes in the refrigerators these were common refrigerators for the undergrads.

MIT just has a new radio chip that uses far less power than our chips.

Is it the exposure? We have professors from MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Indian Institute of Science who come and teach our children lots of scientific formulas, experiments, much beyond the classroom.

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, some evidence Dan Ariely, one of the great economists of our time, he and three colleagues, did a study of some MIT students.

A personal experience, when I was at MIT computer taking up about the size of this room, less powerful than the computer in your cell phone.

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And the most recent involved a couple of people at MIT, one of them being an exceptionally bright kid who is one of the very few people I would think of who's an authentic genius.

I'm at MIT, at MIT you need to apply whatever basic knowledge you gain.

This is Mass General in Boston.

And I'll let Adam tell you. So, Adam is a Ph.D. student at MIT, an expert in music technology and medicine. And Adam and Dan have become close collaborators.

So, with the MIT Media Lab, for quite a while now, we've been engaged in a field called active music.

The Advisory Committee enquired and was informed that it was still cost effective to rent rather than purchase vehicles, since the mission did not have its own infrastructure to manage a mission owned vehicle fleet, and also because, at any given time, should a rented vehicle go out of commission, it would immediately be replaced by the contractor.

This stuff was undertaken at MIT and the Media Lab under the incredible direction of Professor Hiroshi Ishii, director of the Tangible Media Group.

He was the chief of anesthesiology in a hospital in Malawi, a teaching hospital.

There's some theoretical physicist at MIT named Steven Johnson who has dropped two spots, I'm happy to say.

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I said maybe we could have lunch or something.

Maybe.

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Here's a person who had gained sight just a couple of weeks ago, and you see Ethan Myers, a graduate student from MIT, running the experiment with him.

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And we asked them these questions, and we asked those questions of science graduates, and they couldn't answer them.

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