The Boston Globe
"Last night, an overflow crowd in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology lecture hall watched as IBM Corp.’s Watson computer played to a draw against human opponents in the quiz show 'Jeopardy!'"
In the Media
The Boston Globe
"We’re trying to get people to understand it’s not about paper boats and cranes." - MIT sophomore Yanping Chen in a feature about OrigaMIT, an origami club at the Institute.
New Scientist
"Whatever the outcome, the fact that a machine is able to compete against the most successful players ever to appear on Jeopardy! 'is a remarkable achievement', says Boris Katz, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"A complete genetic map of prostate cancer has been charted for the first time by scientists, an achievement that may expand understanding of the disease and lead to new treatments." - New research from Levi Garraway of the Broad Institute
The Boston Herald
"An MIT economist and adviser to President Barack Obama is turning to comic books to help make the pitch for the administration's embattled health care law."
The Boston Globe Magazine
"Practicing pistol ... taught me a great deal of discipline and self-control. You always need to strive to achieve perfection in what you’re doing, and that mind-set carries with you to your academic life and your professional life." - Daipan Lee ’07, in a feature on MIT's sport pistol team
The Boston Globe
Brown making pair of Bay State stops - U.S. Sen. Scott Brown will visit MIT today to discuss his 'Innovate America Act'
CBS News
"You have neurological changes in the brain, which is just processing time, sending signals from one nerve to another. Some get slower more than others." - Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab
WBUR
MIT Celebrates Innovation In Music - Tod Machover discusses the FAST festival that kicked off as part of MIT's 150th anniversary celebration.
WBUR, Radio Boston
MIT Hopes For A New Kendall Square
The Boston Globe
MIT heading into home stretch of hunt for next Media Lab director
The Wall Street Journal
"After looking at several schools in the region, M.I.T. selected Sabanci School of Management in Turkey for a partner program that involves joint research and will also connect M.I.T students with local internships, says S.P. Kothari, deputy dean at Sloan."
The Wall Street Journal
"MIT’s commercial property price index released Wednesday showed that prices of commercial properties sold by major institutional investors grew by 11.9% in the fourth quarter, and 19.3% percent for 2010 overall, according to the index created by the MIT Center for Real Estate."
Wired
"Using natural crystals, two independent research teams, one at MIT, have designed “carpet cloaks” that can make 3-D objects as big as an ant or a grain of sand seemingly disappear into nothing." - This article originally ran in Science News.
Boston.com
"Meanwhile, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory over the past few years have discovered that a drug that allows coils of DNA to relax can restore learning and memory in mice with a condition resembling Alzheimer’s disease."