All Things Digital
"Lost from the discussion is that social data is not like other data — it cannot be calibrated, is often ambiguous, and the traditional tools of data analysis may not apply."
In the Media
The Wall Street Journal
"'What is contemporary Chinese culture?' Mr. Chang, 56 years old, asks. 'I don’t think anyone really knows. But we like to really figure it out to some extent through our work. It’s not just about production of buildings or design. There is this bigger concern.'"
NBC News
"For the first time, scientists have peered to the edge of a colossal black hole and measured the point of no return for matter."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"'A large part of this is due to domestic political considerations,' said Richard Samuels, a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia."
Wired
"Monotype and MIT AgeLab Study Links Type Style with Reduced Driver Distraction Risk." (Video)
Scientific American
"It’s the latest work from the lab of MIT mechanical engineer Pedro Reis, whose denizens have looked at such colorful topics as how cats lap up water, scratching and fracturing in everything from paraffin wax to steel, and (my favorite) the physics of curly hair."
NBC News
"As personal electronic devices have proliferated in cars, and with the corresponding increase in crashes resulting from motorists trying to drive while using those gadgets, automakers have touted voice control as the solution that will permit drivers to safely text, tweet and update their Facebook pages to inform the world of the amazing fact that they are in the act of driving to work."
The Boston Globe
"Twitter Inc. cofounder Jack Dorsey came to Cambridge Monday on a recruitment drive. He is looking to lure a few Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates back to California to help him quickly grow his latest innovation: a mobile payments company called Square Inc."
USA Today
"Text size and type font used in dashboard displays may be overlooked culprits in distracted driving."
The Wall Street Journal
"A wave of new mirrors are relying not on hocus-pocus but on sensors, cameras, and flat-panel displays to transform the time-tested looking glass."
Forbes
"Each year, around this time, we engage in the same conversation about kids, technology and education."
NBC News
"In the partisan controversies over changes in voter eligibility and voter ID requirements, the growth of mail voting and no-excuse absentee voting have received little attention."
The Wall Street Journal
"Researchers at the MIT AgeLab and typeface design company Monotype Imaging say in a paper published today that the typeface auto makers use to display information on navigation screens in cars can make a difference in how long drivers have to take their eyes off the road."
NBC News
"So-called 'super-Earth' alien worlds may bear little resemblance to our own home planet and thus could be less likely to support life than previously believed, a new study suggests."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"A presidential advisory panel on Tuesday recommended new steps to speed the development of life-saving medicines, including the creation of a new industry-academic collaboration to identify and resolve bottlenecks in the scientific pipeline."