Boston.com
"Governor Deval Patrick is establishing a Council for Innovation as part of an ongoing effort to use new technologies to find cost efficiencies in the delivery of government services, his office said Wednesday."
In the Media
Financial Times
“The share of total income going to the top 1 per cent of income earners has increased dramatically, from 9 per cent in 1970 to 23.5 per cent in 2007, the highest level on record since 1928 and much higher than in European countries or Japan today. Meanwhile, the top tax rate has fallen by half, from 70 per cent to 35 per cent.”
NPR
"He argues that a tax hike is necessary to pay for Social Security and especially Medicare, which is projected to become significantly more expensive in the coming decade." - MIT's Simon Johnson is a guest on NPR's Planet Money.
TIME
"A computerized essay reader 'doesn’t care if you say the War of 1812 started in 1945', criticizes one reviewer." - MIT's Les Perelman weighs in on automated grading.
New Scientist
"It may just be a matter of time before we turn over control of our cars to robot intelligence. But before we do, we may have to give each vehicle a voice, eyes, body language, and even an avatar." - Work by MIT's Nicholas Pennycooke is discussed.
The Boston Globe
"You wouldn’t expect anybody at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to go looking for a less powerful computer. But there is an effort afoot at the university’s Sloan School of Management to move faculty and staff away from full-fledged desktop computers and onto dumber, network-based devices known as thin clients."
The Huffington Post
"She (MIT's Sherry Turkle) argues, though, that the tiny 'sips' of contact through social networking 'no matter how valuable ... do not substitute for conversation.'"
CNN Money
"We have seen a rash of essays and articles in the mainstream press recently that take a somewhat scare-mongering tone toward social networks and digital communication of various kinds."
Boston Herald
"Hackers turned MIT’s Green Building into a giant playable game of Tetris late last week. Calling it 'the Holy Grail of hacks,' the IHTFP Hack Gallery has the deets."
NPR
"Nearly 12 million Americans create or modify products they use at home, according to our research. But the vast majority – more than 90 percent – will never get a patent on their innovations. So what motivates them?"
The New York Times
"Mr. Perelman tested the e-Rater and found that 'the automated reader can be easily gamed, is vulnerable to test prep, sets a very limited and rigid standard for what good writing is, and will pressure teachers to dumb down writing instruction.'”
The Wall Street Journal
"We're not close to the top of the Laffer Curve. Raising tax rates is part of a sensible deficit reduction strategy."
Forbes
"In a recent study from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers Steve Barrett and Steve Yim report that emissions from cars, trucks, planes and power plants cause 13,000 premature deaths in the United Kingdom each year."
Boston.com
"At a time when many people think of science that explains what we already know, the new exhibit at the MIT Museum, 'Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Himalaya' provides a glimpse of science as it more often is - understanding that is being hammered out, that is driven by questions and often-striking observations, in which the answers turn out to be intricate."
The New York Times
"A recently released study has concluded that computers are capable of scoring essays on standardized tests as well as human beings do."