Bloomberg News
"The National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the U.S. recession ended in June 2009, yet 2012 didn’t look like much of a resurgence."
In the Media
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"President Obama on Friday named a dozen researchers and 11 inventors as winners of this year’s National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country’s highest honors for scientists, inventors, and engineers."
The Boston Globe
"All three accidents could have been avoided — if the Green Line were equipped with an automated system to track and control trains to prevent train-to-train collisions and derailments when drivers speed or miss track signals that look like traffic lights."
The New York Times
"I’m one of those odd people who read chemistry books for fun at that age." -MIT's Maria Zuber
The Boston Globe
"Forbes put out its '30 Under 30' feature this week, explained as its hot list of 'young disruptors, innovators and entrepreneurs . . . impatient to change the world.'"
Nature News
"Now several teams have solid evidence that quantum physics does indeed embody a level of complexity that classical computers could never match."
Forbes
"Her research at MIT involves devising next-generation solar cells that are built by printing layers of nanoscale materials like quantum dots and chromophores, or color molecules, and combining them with optoelectronic materials."
The Huffington Post
"Gun reform is needed but a larger conversation is called for." -MIT's Robert M. Randolph
NBC News
"If just one percent of drivers from commuter-heavy neighborhoods stayed off the road during rush hour, traffic congestion for everyone else would drop up to 18 percent, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of cellphone data."
AP at The Boston Globe
"A pair of NASA spacecraft tumbled out of orbit around the moon and crashed back-to-back into the surface on Monday, ending a mission that peered into the lunar interior."
Associated Press (at NPR)
"Ebb and Flow chased each other around the moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel supplies, the twin NASA spacecraft are ready for a dramatic finish."
The New York Times
"'Food is a symptom and a symbol of change and how people grow apart,' said Heather Paxson, an anthropology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
The Wall Street Journal
"Last week, Moving Image unveiled its own leap forward in exploring, preserving and exhibiting computer play culture with 'Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off.'"
The Boston Globe
"'We were [one of the] first campuses in the country to embrace the food truck concept,' says Michael Myers, associate director of dining services at MIT. 'The reason they were brought on campus [is because] in that particular area, over by the Kendall T stop, there were very few food service options. We really needed to fulfill that need.'"
The New York Times
"But the 'Spacewar!' show is noteworthy because it goes beyond a grab-bag, check-this-out approach — 'Waiter, there are video games in my art museum' — and focuses on how video games were influenced by the medium’s first successful creation: Spacewar!, developed by a group of M.I.T. students and researchers and introduced to the world in 1962."