BBC News
"Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to develop a banana piano."
In the Media
Scientific American
"According to (MIT's Emile) Bruneau, numerous studies have shown that perspective taking works to improve the attitudes of dominant groups toward stigmatized ones—for example, that thinking about the mind of a homeless person makes us more amenable to helping him—but this method by no means has to translate to groups locking horns with one another."
Popular Science
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the saying goes, and a new algorithm will test that formula by predicting what will be wrong with a patient in the future, based on his or her past - and that of everyone else."
The Boston Globe
"'Death, if we can call it death, isn’t permanent for languages,' Norvin Richards, an MIT linguist, says in the film."
The New York Times
"Beyond all of the technical parameters, Nintendo’s most expansive goal with the Wii U, expected this holiday season (no price has been announced), is to persuade family members to put down their disparate gadgets once in a while and play together again."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"As in 2010, the 10-campus University of California system was the academic institution receiving the most patents (323), followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (160), Stanford University (153), and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (144), the patenting arm for the University of Wisconsin at Madison."
NPR
"(MIT's Les) Perelman says any student who can read can be taught to score very highly on a machine-graded test."
USA Today
"Major U.S. cities are among the world's wealthiest and technologically advanced, but they lag behind their counterparts in Latin America in preparing for climate change, a survey finds."
Forbes
"There’s a startup boom in online higher education, but nearly all of the players hope to advance by working within the system."
The Huffington Post
"A brilliant team at MIT was responsible for the most focused development program of HPAs ever, building BURD (which made brief hops), Chrysalis (a contender for the Channel Prize), Monarch A & B, and the prototype Michelob Light Eagle culminating in the Daedalus in 1988."
TIME Healthland
"Would you let your elementary-schooler join the Facebook nation?"
CNN Money
"In a TED talk video, Transatomic co-founders Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie — both PhD students at MIT’s nuclear engineering department — point out how there’s been little innovation in the nuclear tech space over the years, partly because it’s hard for nuclear developers to adopt new technology in a world dominated by the lightwater nuclear reactor."
MSNBC
"A rat is smarter than Google. And that's no dig at Google, according to artificial intelligence researchers Yann LeCun and Josh Tenenbaum."
NPR
"'We're almost at a historic opportunity, in terms of the cost of owning relative to renting,' says William Wheaton, an economist at MIT. 'It's hard to think of a time in the last ... two or three decades when it's been as good to buy as right now.'"
The Huffington Post
"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created 'Eulerian Video Magnification' software, which amplifies subtle movements through video technology to reveal 'hidden information' not visible by the naked eye, such as blood flowing through a face, or the human pulse."