Bloomberg Businessweek
"The ranking is based on student responses to the question asking them to rank their program’s coverage of information technology, an area where few schools truly excel."
In the Media
The Washington Post
"From an environmental perspective, the only thing that feels good about plastic is the recycling icon found on so many items."
The Boston Globe
"Last week marked one of the quirkiest events on the Boston calendar: MIThenge, the twice-a-year occasion when the sunset shoots straight through the door at the end of MIT’s Infinite Corridor."
USA Today
"Obama awarded the National Medal of Science to 12 researchers, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to 11 inventors."
CBS News
"President Obama today awarded 23 researchers and inventors with national medals for science, technology and innovation, lauding the recipients for their hard work and contributions, and joking that they represented 'the greatest collection of brainpower we've had under this roof in a long time.'"
The New York Times
"Jacob J. Lew, the president’s nominee for Treasury secretary, and Mary Jo White, the nominee for chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, are making financial reformers nervous."
WBUR
"'People think they have this enormous capacity to juggle multiple balls in the air,' says Earl Miller, a professor at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. 'They actually can only juggle very few.'"
CNN Money
"Gordan Moore had his own law for chips, and some in the solar sector talk about a Swanson’s Law for the dropping cost of solar, but folks at MIT will use close to $500K to study the tech evolution process of solar and to create an overarching theory."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Toledano, a 36-year-old master’s degree candidate at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., has built an Android app, Air Mobs, which—were it ever released—would allow you to sell wireless bandwidth to a stranger near you in return for credits allowing you to buy bandwidth from another stranger in the future."
Wired
"Using a pixel-magnifying algorithm, a team from MIT and Quanta Research Cambridge demonstrates how amplified video can be used to determine such things as heart rate...from afar."
InsideHigherEd.com
"The founders of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), a graduate-only university founded in 2011 outside Moscow, are collaborating with faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a university that embodies many of the principles hottest in higher education today: interdisciplinarity, problem-based learning, research for innovation and entrepreneurship, and internationalization."
The Boston Globe
"Among new initiatives, the mayor proposed using 1 million square feet of city-owned property to develop affordable housing. He announced a partnership with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to bring cutting-edge online learning to Boston's community centers."
The New York Times
"A concept promulgated by the right — the notion of the hidden prosperity of the poor — underpins the conservative take on the ongoing debate over rising inequality."
The Huffington Post
"Which university is top-rated for engineering? Opinions differ, of course. But an annual ranking of 200 universities around the globe indicates that 13 of the top 15 universities for engineering are right here in the U.S."
The New York Times
"'Everybody is in favor of safeguards,' said Donald R. Sadoway, a professor of material chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'And the batteries could be fine as manufactured, and tested and perform in excess of specifications.'"