The Boston Globe
"When Sebastian Seung read that each day people around the world spend 600 years collectively playing Angry Birds, he saw not a huge waste, but a big opportunity."
In the Media
Scientific American
"The earth harbors about 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water. Unfortunately, the vast majority of that water comes from the sea and is not potable unless treated by expensive, energy-hungry desalination plants."
Popular Science
"Before cars start driving themselves completely, they’ll most likely start helping humans behave better on the road, politely ignoring instructions to run a red light or noticing traffic cones or other obstacles a driver might not see. A new system developed at MIT could help cars have our backs, letting them serve as semi-autonomous co-pilots."
The Huffington Post
"A group of students at MIT's Media Lab may soon make matters rather more confusing. They're working on a new kind of TV called a 'tensor display,' the first 3D TV that produces an image as clear and bright as that of a traditional TV without requiring viewers to wear glasses."
The Boston Globe
"HERE IS A LIST OF BREAKTHROUGHS that recently emerged from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: (1) a sponge coated with a natural anticoagulant that almost instantly stops bleeding, (2) a super-thin battery that discharges power — lots of it — at blinding speed, and (3) a way of packing RNA segments into tiny but hardy spheres that can find their way to diseased cells and silence genes that have gone awry."
The Boston Globe
"(MIT's Anant) Agarwal heads the pioneering effort to make online higher education — rather than the in-person kind — a viable alternative for hundreds of millions of prospective students worldwide."
The Wall Street Journal
"Parkinson’s disease will be diagnosable by phone, in mere seconds, if a research project at MIT’s Media lab comes to fruition"
MSNBC
"The day when we leave the driving to robots may yet be in the distant future, but we could soon have robotic co-pilots to keep us safe on the road."
Slate
"Technology is often accused of facilitating bullying among kids. But now some researchers have created an AI system that can recognize abusive language in user-posted text—and perhaps nip it in the bud."
New Scientist
"How will NASA transform the International Space Station from a building site into a cutting-edge research lab?"
Bits (New York Times)
"Instead of assembly lines, what if manufacturing moved to self-assembly lines?"
The New York Times
"A study of a rare gene mutation that protects people against Alzheimer’s disease provides the strongest evidence yet that excessive levels of a normal brain substance, beta amyloid, are a driving force in the disease — bolstering hopes that anti-amyloid drugs already under development might alter the disease’s course or even prevent it."
CBS News
"Gihan Amarasiriwardena, Aman Advani, Kit Kichey, and Kevin Rustagi - collectively known as the Ministry of Supply - have a history working in futuristic fashion."
Forbes
"Cambrian Innovation, a company founded by Matt Silver while completing an MIT Engineering Systems PhD, has figured out a way to cut the amount of energy needed to treat wastewater."
The Huffington Post
"A prominent economist says big banks have 'hijacked' the political process and now have 'a leading driver's seat' in determining financial regulation."