TIME Healthland
"Would you let your elementary-schooler join the Facebook nation?"
In the Media
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."
The Huffington Post
"In a separate study released in April, researchers from Georgia Tech, as well as from Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, identified the worst kinds of tweets on Twitter."
The New York Times
"Sanjay Sarma, of the Field Intelligence Lab at M.I.T., is working to produce tiny, inexpensive sensors that you scatter across your lawn by the dozens and that will track everything from bug infestations to mineral deficiencies."
The Wall Street Journal
"Research just published by the MIT Media Lab used Google's facial-feature tracker to gauge our ability to distinguish between smiles of delight and frustration."
Reuters
"The work begun by (MIT's Mark) Bear more than a decade ago has helped to change the approach to autism research."
WBUR
"Intel will spend $12.5 million over the next five years to put some of its researchers in Cambridge alongside brains from MIT. And it’s not just the California chip-maker: AIG, Massachusetts’ own EMC, Thomson Reuters and SAP are all chipping in to partner with MIT."
The New York Times
"Seven scientists whose work spanned the outer reaches of the solar system and penetrated the inner workings of brain circuits and nanotubes were named winners of the 2012 Kavli Prizes on Thursday." - Multiple members of the MIT community were awarded Kavli Prizes.
WBUR
"Storing and dealing with data has always been an issue in the age of computing. But in the modern world, with its booming online traffic and transactions and digital sensors in more and more devices, data is ballooning, with gigabytes now measured in the trillions each year. MIT President Susan Hockfield sees opportunity in that sea of ones and zeros."
The Washington Post
"Scientists at MIT have developed the prototype of a needle-less injection mechanism. Ian Hunter and Cathy Hogan in MIT’s Bioinstrumentation Lab described the new technology in a YouTube video."
The New York Times
"Ethan Zuckerman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology notes in The Wilson Quarterly that 95 percent of news consumed by American Internet users is published within the United States, and people in many other countries consume even less foreign news than we do."
U.S. News & World Report
"'The fox is guarding the henhouse,' says former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson of Jamie Dimon's position on the New York Fed's board of directors. And more than a few political and economic heavyweights agree with him."