Wired
"This Van Gogh-like swirl is Perpetual Ocean, a data visualisation showing all the surface currents flowing through Earth's oceans."
In the Media
Los Angeles Times
"MIT research scientist Christopher Carr is part of a group that’s 'building a a miniature RNA/DNA sequencer to search for life beyond Earth,' according to his website."
Financial Times
"The idea is to bring the best Russian and foreign brains together with big business and venture capital and create an innovative ecosystem that will be Russia’s answer to Silicon Valley."
The Boston Globe
"Based on our work at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, we see two clear and distinct routes to new job creation." -Bill Aulet and Fiona Murray
The Guardian
"When leaders understand causal connections between actions and their effects, they can drive behaviour change through improved regulation and business policy."
Forbes
"With sensors and cell phones, Pentland is monitoring the pulse of society."
The Boston Globe
"The program calls this initiative InvenTeams, and its goal to engage students through invention projects that focus on STEM-subjects – science, technology, engineering, and math."
The Boston Globe
"About 100,000 students have signed up for Harvard University’s first free online courses — computer science and an adaptation of the Harvard School of Public Health’s classes in epidemiology and biostatics. The online courses, part of a joint venture called edX, begin Monday, according to Harvard."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"University of Texas regents approved a plan Monday to offer courses to students around the world through an advanced online platform alongside Harvard, MIT and the University of California-Berkeley."
Financial Times
"Unlike most programmes, which hold classes every other weekend, MIT’s executive MBA programme meets every third week on Fridays and Saturdays, and includes four eight-day modules on campus over 20 months."
The Boston Globe
"A team of Harvard and MIT researchers has created the first three-dimensional piece of artificial tissue that’s wired with electronics."
The Huffington Post
"My latest research has to do with how people express themselves through the brands they consume. It's a topic that has interested me for some time." -MIT's Renee Richards Gosaline
WBUR
"Every nation will suffer if governments don’t think about common interests and responsibilities in dealing with climate change, rather than national interest, the Dalai Lama told a crowd in Cambridge on Monday."
The Washington Post
"The central point is, are you doing it all on benefit cuts or are you doing part with increased revenue?" -MIT's Peter Diamond
BBC News
"A third runway at Heathrow would lead to significantly more early deaths from pollution than a new airport built in the Thames Estuary, a study has warned."