"In 2011 the volume of available data is predicted to continue along its exponential growth curve to 1.8 zettabytes. (A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes; that’s a 1 with 21 zeros trailing behind it.)"
"Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed radar technology to see through thick concrete or brick walls - which could give soldiers in urban warfare the equivalent of X-ray vision."
"I'd been in contact with MIT Professor Dava Newman and Postdoctoral Associate Ryan Kobrick, who'd told me that astronaut Nicholas Patrick would be giving a presentation at MIT's Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering department sometime in the next week..."
"Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson’s new book Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy is getting a ton of press."
"We think planets were built of things like Lutetia...We're getting a chance to see one of the building blocks of the solar system up close." -MIT's Ben Weiss
"In his narrow, crowded office at MIT, Martin Marks plays the piano. Just over his shoulder, the screen of his Mac is showing 'Faust,’ a classic German film made in 1926 by F.W. Murnau."
"Economists at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have just released what they claim to be the crystal ball of economics: a model for predicting a nation’s future growth more accurately than any other techniques out there."
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology signed an agreement this morning to jointly found a graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a planned technology research hub outside Moscow meant to be Russia’s equivalent of Silicon Valley."
"Joining us to talk more about income inequality and its effects are Boston University political science professor Graham Wilson and MIT political economy professor Michael Piore."
"Canadian director Robert Lepage, who is opening part three of his 'Ring’ cycle tonight at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, is the 2012 recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT."
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Russia's Skolkovo Foundation announced on Wednesday plans to develop a new graduate research university near Moscow. The university will be located in a technology park in Skolkovo that has been described as Russia's future Silicon Valley."