3 ms·L. Rafael Reif selected as MIT’s 17th president23 points by adoyle 14y agoph0rque 14y agoNot complaining this is on the front page, but can anyone provide context as to why this might be important to Hacker News?borski 14y agoAmong other things, he spearheaded the development of MITx, which has been on the front page a number of times.