Boston.com
"Students from Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management will take on IBM Corp.’s Watson, the supercomputer that famously beat two human competitors in the TV show game show Jeopardy!"
In the Media
Science
"Have you ever wondered what nanotube chemistry might look like as a dance?"
Boston Herald
"A Massachusetts-led team of researchers has mapped out much of the mysterious “dark matter” that regulates the human genome and is the source of many disease-causing mutations, findings that appear in a paper published today."
CNN
"Graphene has been hailed as a 'miracle material' which could revolutionize materials science because of its unique properties."
Financial Times
"Kristin Forbes has experience at the top of two professions: academia and policy."
The Huffington Post
"However, this training doesn't address the lack of workers trained in the specific skills needed for today's advanced and higher tech manufacturing."
The Huffington Post
"One of the keenest areas of solar power research these days is into how nature turns the sun’s rays into energy for growth."
Wired
"Researchers at MIT have discovered that graphene can turn light into electricity, but not the way you’d think."
New Scientist
"Stand up too quickly and you might see stars. Analysing the area of the brain that creates these tiny flashes of light could help blind people to see."
The New York Times
"The most optimistic researchers believe that these storehouses of “big data” will for the first time reveal sociological laws of human behavior — enabling them to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability, just as physicists and chemists can predict natural phenomena."
Los Angeles Times
"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Cognitive and Brain Science Department, researchers hoping to restore sight have focused not on repairing the eyes that have ceased to function or the wiring that has frayed; instead, they have proposed to supply the electrical messages that the brain interprets as an 'image' directly to the brain's visual cortex."
The New York Times
"Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts formed the venture to boost academic research in protein structure, fluid flows, the dynamics of the earth's atmosphere, human social interaction, the evolution of the galaxy and other issues."
Boston Herald
“For so many years we were relying on educating students on alcohol. We know now that education doesn’t translate to behavior change...The prevention is about creating a culture that supports low-risk, student safety and student success.” -MIT's Judith McGuire
The Economist
"Anyone wanting to get a better idea of the scale of the changes taking place in the world of consumer electronics should take a look at Foxconn’s giant factory complex in Shenzhen, in southern China."
Boston Herald
"Last month, the MIT Entrepreneurship Center unveiled the Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame in Cambridge’s Kendall Square and Jobs was among the first group enshrined."