Forbes
"Each year, around this time, we engage in the same conversation about kids, technology and education."
In the Media
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."
Wired
"MIT computer scientists have published a paper detailing how they created a prototype Kinect-style sensor system that picks up visual data and translates it into a map, building an image of the world around a wearer instantaneously."
Scientific American
"The tech from mood rings and 'hypercolor' T-shirts is now in sunglass lenses, paints, threads, and even medicines."
Popular Science
"The first human moving through a dangerous area can generate annotated digital maps in realtime, imparting critical information to the next wave of responders."
The New York Times
"Now computers and their tireless calculations may bolster the skills of many people who want to create well-cut picture frames, inlays or furniture but lack the dexterity."
The Boston Globe
"MIT faculty, staff, and students officially welcomed L. Rafael Reif as the school’s 17th president Friday, and he laid out a vision that further embraces online education, bolsters investment in research, and makes education more accessible."
The Boston Globe
"The Boston Globe and the MIT Center for Civic Media are collaborating to bring media experiments from the university to the audience of the Globe’s websites, Boston.com and BostonGlobe.com."
Boston Herald
"L. Rafael Reif has made the grade. Having climbed the ladder at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than three decades, the Venezuelan-born administrator and electrical engineer is now settling into the top job as the school’s 17th president."
WBUR
"Rafael Reif, the 17th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formally took office Friday with a stern warning for the school about some major challenges that it and other research universities are facing."
Wired
"The widely held and devoutly believed idea that a big play can change the momentum of a game is, in a word, bunk. So say a trio of MIT stats geeks with a decade of data to back them up."
Forbes
"From MIT Startup Bootcamp to Grace Hopper Celebration, from PITCH Conference to Girl Geek Dinners, there’s no shortage of things to do for a woman interested in tech and entrepreneurship."