In the Media

Newsweek reporter Tom Parrett writes about current advances, and the future of swarm robots, highlighting Professor Daniela Rus’ work with self-assembling robots. 

In a video for BBC News, Spencer Kelly reports on how, “A researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed an algorithm which he says can predict how popular a photograph will be when it is posted online.”

Reuters reports on Professor Kristin Forbes’ appointment to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. "Dr Kristin Forbes is an economist of outstanding ability with real practical experience of policy making," says Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborn.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborn has appointed Professor Kristin Forbes to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, writes Asa Bennett for The Huffington Post UK. Forbes is the second woman appointed to the committee under Osborn.

“Kristin Forbes, a former economic adviser to George Bush, is to break the all-male stranglehold on interest-rate setting in the UK when she becomes a member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee in July,” writes Larry Elliot of The Guardian. 

“Kristin Forbes, a professor of management and global economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will join the MPC for its July meeting, completing an almost wholesale transformation of the committee’s membership within a year,” write Chris Giles and Emily Cadman for The Financial Times. 

Jennifer Ryan and Emma Charlton of Bloomberg News report that Professor Kristin Forbes has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. Forbes previously worked for the U.S. Treasury during the Bush administration and was the youngest member ever on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. 

“Now professor of management and global economics at MIT Sloan, Ms Forbes was the youngest-ever person appointed to the White House's Council of Economic Advisors, where she served President George W Bush from 2003 to 2005,” reports The BBC on Professor Kristin Forbes’ appointment to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. 

Professor Kristin Forbes has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy committee writes Jason Douglas for The Wall Street Journal. “She will make an exceptionally strong addition to the MPC," said Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in a statement.

Jon Gold reports on how MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that can identify human activity from video input. “The researchers drew on natural language processing techniques,” Gold writes, “to create a 'grammar' for each action they wanted the system to recognize.”

Professor Emerita Lotte Bailyn writes in this WBUR op-ed about the importance of paternity leave for advancing gender equality in the work place. “From a marriage and work perspective, paternity leave creates a pattern of shared care between two parents right off the bat,” writes Bailyn. 

In a piece for The Huffington Post, Michael Porter writes about how researchers involved with the Social Progress Index are evaluating the success of a society in comprehensive terms independent of economic measures. The researchers found that in many ways that U.S. is not delivering.

NPR reporter Scott Neuman writes about how researchers have found that storms are, “migrating out of the tropics, reaching their peak intensity in higher latitudes, where larger populations are concentrated.”

Scientific American reporter David Biello discusses new research that shows that major storms are shifting towards the poles. “The record reveals that peak cyclone location has been shifting toward both poles at a rate of about 35 miles per decade, roughly one-half a degree of latitude,” Biello explains.

A new study co-authored by MIT’s Kerry Emanuel finds that as the Earth’s oceans have warmed, destructive storms have moved further from the equator, writes Jason Samenow for The Washington Post.