TIME
"A common refrain in conversations about poverty—and unemployment and income inequality—is that more education will lead people to better-paying jobs and higher living standards."
In the Media
ABC News
"A Black Friday study in which 50 shoppers hit the sales wearing sweat-sensing bracelets has offered a glimpse into the thought processes that determine when we drop our dough."
Boston Herald
"Gov. Deval Patrick today launched the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative and released a new roadmap for manufacturing job growth in Massachusetts during an address to the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership regional meeting in Cambridge at MIT."
CNN Money
"The number of jobs available for skilled workers without a college degree is declining fast."
New Scientist
"Beyond apps, researchers are also turning to devices known as inertial measurement units (IMUs). Michael Lapinski at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has developed the sportSemble system, which uses IMUs to analyse how baseball pitchers throw the ball."
Wired
"For eight weeks, the MIT Education Arcade and the Smithsonian Institute put on an alternate reality game seeking to engage children with the scientific method. The game attracted thousands of players gathering data to assist scientists from a cataclysmic future."
Yahoo News
"The task of making a robot move more naturally may have scared away others in the past, but researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) have attacked the dilemma head on."
NPR- National Public Radio
"As the presidential candidates grip and grin their way across the early primary states, many voters are tuning in online to get the latest information on their policies and plans. But sifting through the muck of rumor, fact and fiction online isn't easy, so MIT grad student Dan Schultz came up with an idea to help: 'Truth Goggles.'"
Scientific American
"Teams are given a kit of biological parts from the registry of standard biological parts, and they use these precursors along with new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells."
The Boston Globe
"Twenty-one minutes later, with mousetraps sprung, dominoes tumbled, and rockets shot high into the air at stations set up around the outer edge of a gymnasium, 14 ostrich feathers inscribed with the lines of a sonnet drifted into the waiting hands of volunteers."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Some economists believe that today's grinding unemployment and slow growth are masking the transition to a vibrant digital economy."
Yahoo! News
"Inspired by the way trees spread their leaves to capture sunlight, MIT Engineering Professor Jeffery Grossman wondered how efficient a three-dimensional shape covered in solar cells could be."
Wall Street Journal blogs
"Despite seemingly endless financial turmoil in Europe and gridlock in Washington, venture investors and entrepreneurs found reason to be optimistic Friday at MIT’s annual venture capital conference."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"MIT’s Sloan School of Management recently submitted employment figures for its 2011 MBA class."
Forbes
"One of the best moments at Techonomy this year was the debate between George Mason economist, Tyler Cowen, and MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson."