NPR
"But no matter which man wins the next election — Obama or presumed challenger Mitt Romney — he may well go down in history as the First Robot President."
In the Media
WBUR's Radio Boston
"The push for online learning is gathering force, and not just at Harvard and MIT, with their groundbreaking edX project."
WBUR's CommonHealth
"Now (and may I say it’s about time) researchers at MIT have developed a device that may inject a variety of drugs without using needles."
Popular Science
"Whether you’re at the doctor’s office or taking medicine at home, future injections could be a lot less painful with this new gadget developed at MIT. Instead of a sterile metal point penetrating your skin, it fires a jet of medicine through your skin at the speed of sound."
The New York Times
"President Obama on Thursday nominated (MIT alum) Allison M. Macfarlane, a professor of environmental science at George Mason University, to serve as chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
Financial Times
"'The great thing about the online market place,' says Dana Chandler, an MIT PhD candidate who researches the phenomenon, 'is that it is distributing work and income directly to people who wouldn’t have access to it before. You bypass physical migration, and open up the labour market to people in the most remote and poor parts of the world.'"
Boston Herald
"Five collegiate teams — including two from local campuses — have spent the past 48 hours building prototypes for creative and useful apps as part of the 2012 Cable Show’s first-ever 'Imagine App Challenge' hackathon at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center."
New Scientist
"In August, the Russian government, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will open the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. The institute's home will eventually be in a new 'science city' outside Moscow."
New Scientist
"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab are developing software that can read the feelings behind facial expressions. In some cases, the computers outperform people."
The Boston Globe
"The burgeoning movement to put more college classes online, which attracted the support of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this month, is getting another endorsement that may have an even greater impact: rigorous evidence that the computer can be as effective as the classroom."
TIME
"Luckily for burger fans everywhere, impatiently tapping our ketchup bottles might be a thing of the past thanks to MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith."
The Huffington Post
"Scientists have gained new clues into what makes certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus so resistant to antibiotics."
The New York Times
"Working with the very nice and talented students and faculty members from the MIT Media Lab (and financed by a partnership of British arts and innovation organizations), Punchdrunk had revisited the smoke-filled and dimly lighted chambers of 'Sleep No More' to add digital enhancements that — if I discovered them — would be activated only with the help of a special mask that was outfitted with sensors, though not necessarily built for corrective lenses."
The Wall Street Journal
"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, small businesses participate in a career fair during the last semester of the business program, after the traditional fall recruiting season, says Sue Kline, MIT Sloan's director of career development."
The Boston Globe
"Researchers gathered at the MIT Museum last month to describe work they've conducted relevant to the deadly seven, as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. The point of their assembly: to share some ways in which research can provide insight into these darker sides of life — and even, in some cases, hold out possibilities for redemption."