Boston Herald
"A new algorithm developed by an MIT professor and his student can predict, hours in advance, which Twitter topics will be the subject of a sudden explosion in tweets."
In the Media
Popular Science
"There's a small electrical charge living in your cochlea, and it can power electronics."
CNN Money
"The AgeLab's work is eclectic -- one of Coughlin's research specialties is the driving ability of older people -- tapping fields from engineering to psychology to find insights into ways people can live better as they age."
Popular Science
"If you don’t have legs, you can propel yourself by deforming your body. Earthworms do this through peristaltic locomotion: The muscles in one body segment contract while others relax, which creates a traveling wave that moves them forward. Our robot, Meshworm, moves this way, using wires for muscles." -MIT's Sangbae Kim
Wonkblog (Washington Post)
"Many Americans can already pay their utilities online and bank online. Why can’t we vote over the Internet as well?"
Scientific American
"Sun-dimming industrial pollution in China or signs that greenhouse gases trap less heat in the atmosphere than expected may help explain an apparent slowdown in global warming since 2000, experts say."
Boston Magazine
"First, a poll’s margin of error is there because we can’t ask everyone in the country who they are voting for every day."
Financial Times
"Some business schools have established leadership in 'idea generation' at the nexus of IT and business. One making efforts to keep pace with technological innovation is the MIT Sloan School of Management, in Massachusetts, which established the MIT Center for Digital Business in 1999."
USA Today
"The metal on Zac Vawter bionic leg gleamed as he climbed 103 floors of Chicago's iconic Willis Tower, becoming the first person ever to complete the task wearing a mind-controlled prosthetic limb."
Wired.co.uk
"If only cyclists and motorists could read each other's minds. Arlene Ducao agrees -- so she has built a wearable mind-reading device."
The Atlantic
"Because your brain is always predicting your own actions, and how your body will feel as a result, you cannot tickle yourself."
CNBC
"The decline of the middle class has emerged as a key issue in the presidential campaign with both candidates promising policies to restore the economic stability of the middle class."
Financial Times
"Companies that have succeeded in transforming their business through the use of digital technologies such as social media, mobile, analytics and embedded devices benefit from a considerable 'digital advantage' and demonstrate significantly better financial performance than their peers, according to a global study conducted by Capgemini Consulting and the MIT Center for Digital Business."
Nature
"General anaesthetics induce a coma-like state within seconds, allowing patients to be operated on without feeling pain or discomfort. Yet very little is known about how these drugs work."
NPR
"Still, overall, says Charles Stewart of MIT, things are looking pretty good this year when it comes to voting technology."