"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."
"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."
"'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.'"
"The issue with driverless cars, says Bryan Reimer, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AgeLab, isn’t the machines. It’s us."
"The City of Boston plans to launch a partnership with the two institutions through the experimental online initiative edX, which offers free courses to anyone with Internet access."
"The next round of reductions will require more serious action, probably jettisoning 15 percent of the force — and more if rising personnel costs are not brought under control." -MIT's Cindy Williams
"The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. I say this for two main reasons."
"Restoring sight to the blind has proved particularly challenging for scientists, but a new technology combining an eye implant and video-camera-enabled glasses may soon be available in the U.S."
"A study published in Businessweek calculated the return on investment for hundreds of colleges and universities in the country, and found that MIT, Harvard University, and Babson College were among the schools considered the best investment."
"MOOCs are vastly extending the reach of professors at some of the world’s best universities, particularly at Stanford, Harvard, M.I.T., Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Duke."
"He wanted to write a symphony not for the city of Toronto but with the city of Toronto, a piece of music that would ultimately be about Toronto in a way that was granular, participatory, and reflective of an urban landscape in all of its component parts."