[Editors] MIT "firsts"

[Elizabeth Thomson]

Hi Everybody,

Thought you could help me out with a query from President Hockfield's 
office. Dr. Hockfield would like examples of things that MIT has 
given the world - recently or in the not too distant past - and the 
researcher(s) behind those breakthroughs.

To get you thinking, below are a few examples I came up with:

>the first atom laser
>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1997/atom-0129.html
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>first "transatlantic touch"
>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/touchlab3.html
>
>first robotic snail (RoboSnail)
>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/robosnail.html
>
>first tissue-engineering experiment in space
>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1997/spacecartilage.html

I'll compile your replies and, if you'd like, send the final list 
back to this group.

Many thanks!

Elizabeth
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Elizabeth A. Thomson
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News Office, Room 11-400
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)
<thomson at mit.edu>

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