Cambridge, MIT Form Partnership
Two of the world’s most prestigious universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge in England, have agreed to form a partnership that officials of both universities said could serve as a blueprint for innovative education and research.
The alliance, to be announced by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in London today, unites some of academia’s best minds--including physicist Stephen Hawking of Cambridge and cognitive neuroscientist Steven Pinker of MIT--under a newly created Cambridge-MIT Institute funded by the British government and by private industry in Britain.
The institute is designed to to develop new technologies and improve productivity and competitiveness.
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