Payton, Kiona, and their Northeast High School classmates received a 2012 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program, which supported their development of the innovative design.

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The students, who were selected to be a 2012 Lemelson-MIT program InvenTeam, built the device with the goal of reducing the number of drowning deaths due to rip currents in the Great Lakes.

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America Movil had MIT professor Jerry Hausman, who directs the MIT Telecommunications Economics Research Program, look into the OECD report.

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Pentland is also head of the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship program, and has co-founded or served in an advisory role to several big data analytics startups such as Ginger.io and Sense Networks.

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D. program at MIT to pursue the idea.

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An erudite Philadelphia native, Pagon quit a doctoral program in economics at MIT to become an investment banker.

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Meanwhile, at MIT's Sloan School, a similar program has been operating for the past eight years.

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Future research will look at how the microbiome is "established in infants and maintained throughout life, " said Bruce Birren, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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Bill co-founded the IMD partnership program on Driving Strategic Innovation, in cooperation with the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

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