The Boston Globe
"Andrew W. Lo, the MIT finance professor and hedge fund manager, wants to bring Wall Street-style financial engineering to a crucial social need: curing cancer."
In the Media
The New York Times
"'It does seem unprecedented that the court would uphold a law and increase support for it,' she said, 'and still experience a hit to its own approval and standing at the same time.'"
The Boston Globe
"Four Boston-area residents — a celebrated novelist, a Harvard economist, a pediatric neurosurgeon, and a man who carves, shapes, and threads some of the world’s most finely crafted instrument bows — are among 23 people worldwide chosen to be the 2012 MacArthur Fellows and recipients of the foundation’s 'genius grants.'"
Fox News
"Time travel is a staple of science fiction, with the latest rendition showing up in the film 'Looper.' And it turns out jumps through time are possible, according to the laws of physics, though traveling into the future looks to be much more feasible than traveling into the past."
CBS News
"Ninety percent of American adults own cell phones and, whether talking or texting, it seems that 90 percent of the time, they are using them."
TIME Techland
"Would it surprise you to learn researchers at MIT have an answer that could eventually aid emergency responders? That it involves everyone’s favorite motion-sensing tinker toy, Microsoft’s Kinect?"
Forbes
"The externship program enables students to work for companies during IAP (the month of January)."
The Huffington Post
"Thomson Reuters released its annual list of Citation Laureates, esteemed scientists whose contributions to medicine, physics, chemistry and economics make them likely contenders for a Nobel Prize."
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."
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."