The Guardian
"As last year, the top 200 is dominated by American institutions, with 75 making the list. Other high scorers include the Netherlands, Germany and Canada."
In the Media
WBUR
"Elliot Cohen, MBA graduate student at MIT’s Sloane School of Management, said that he thinks of Steve Jobs on a daily basis."
New Scientist
"(MIT alum) Adam Riess has won the 2011 Nobel prize in physics for the discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, along with Brian Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter."
Wicked Local with the Cambridge Chronicle
"The 'Integrative' part of the name revealed a unique approach: in the new center, traditional cancer researchers - molecular geneticists, cell biologists – would join forces with one another staple of MIT: engineers."
Scientific American
"The sun is the most abundant power source on Earth, but new designs soon hitting the market could keep its energy flowing even after sunset."
Bloomberg Businessweek
“One of the great impediments to an effective PTO is the funding to just get the people power in place and move things through the system." -MIT President Susan Hockfield - “One of the great impediments to an effective PTO is the funding to just get the people power in place and move things through the system." -MIT President Susan Hockfield
Bloomberg Businessweek
"House Republican Leader Eric Cantor told a gathering of chief executive officers and university leaders that the U.S. must grant visas to skilled workers from overseas more quickly to halt an 'exodus' from the country."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Susan Hockfield, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, said the U.S. can no longer rely on a reputation as the 'most exciting place to work' to keep foreign students from taking their diplomas elsewhere."
The Guardian
"Why are many so reluctant to share teaching resources? Is it for fear of not being properly credited? Are academics (and management) worried about the time constraints or that, with no mechanism to measure how much your resources are downloaded, amended and used, OER have little benefit in performance review?"
The New York Times
"But look beyond that to something really significant: Siri, the personal assistant application that Apple also showed off. Siri matters for two reasons. First, it represents the future of Apple as a business. Second, Siri potentially is the future of what is now called search."
The Wall Street Journal
"A growing number of U.S. and U.K. business schools are putting a new twist on their international connections."
WBUR
"Have I missed something? What's a 'smoot?'"
Marketplace Tech- American Public Media
"Apple's latest iPhone announcement didn't have any one huge feature to draw all the attention. But two new features caught our eye: promises of seven times faster speeds and a new artificial intelligence program."
The Huffington Post
"With or without the enormous Typhoons, each of which displaces 34,000 tons while submerged, Russia's undersea fleet is all but certain to decline – and that has strategic implications for Moscow and Washington."
The Washington Post
"Three American astrophysicists were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for showing that the universe is flying apart at an ever-accelerating pace, a discovery that overturned decades of assumptions in the field of cosmology."