"Not long ago we had to creatively generate data to inform strategy, planning, decisions and public policy. Today we are swimming in data." -MIT's Joe Coughlin
"For the first time, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report, brain imaging has been able to show in living patients the progressive damage Parkinson’s disease causes to two small structures deep in the brain."
"Scientists are studying how to tap the energy naturally created by people's bodies—such as heat, sound and movement—to power medical devices without the need to change batteries."
"Roberto Rigobon, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Business said investors may the advertisements 'more as polarized political discussion than feel roused to call their senators.'"
"Paul Osterman, an MIT professor who studies part-time and low-wage work, notes that Walmart comes out of the rural south, infertile ground for unionising, but is trying to move into more heavily unionised cities, particularly in the north-east."
"Adam Shaw checks out the Q Sensor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a wireless sensor, which measures electricity conducted through the skin."
"For universities, reduced funding means taking on fewer graduate students and postdocs, closing the pipeline to a generation of scientists, said Claude Canizares, vice president for research at MIT, which gets much of its research funding from the Pentagon."
"Sangeeta Bhatia, a biomedical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is also taking inspiration from information technology and other fields. She is emulating natural systems and robotics to make smart cocktails of cancer therapeutics that communicate with each other to 'swarm' to tumours."
"Graduate students at MIT first started playing with this idea in the late 1980s. That dream has been tinkered with steadily over the last two decades until we’ve reached a tipping point: today, 3D printers for the home are available."