Boston.com
"West Newton Square’s vibrancy comes with a cost - parking and traffic problems, which MIT students are trying to solve."
In the Media
Financial Times
"New technology is leading to some innovative instruments - but will musicians embrace them?"
NPR
"In 1973, the median male worker earned just over $49,000 when adjusted for inflation, while in 2010 that worker made about $1,500 less. Yet, in the same period, the output of the economy has more than doubled, and the productivity of workers has risen steadily."
Boston.com
"The need to recycle a higher volume of cups was a key topic of discussion last week at the third 'Cup Summit' at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
TIME- Techland
"Facebook, Google Search and even sites like Techland are not really free services. You don't pay for them with money, but you do pay with a little bit of your privacy."
Boston.com
"Actors have Hollywood Boulevard; athletes, the hall of fame. And now, for Information Age trailblazers, there is the Entrepreneur Walk of Fame."
Forbes
"Add this to the growing list of promising innovations in solar energy: photovoltaic cells that capture energy from sunlight but without changing the way sunlight appears to the naked human eye. The kicker: you can paint these virtually invisible cells on everyday window panes used in everyday homes and everyday buildings."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Two pioneers in bioengineering will share the 2011 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, a $250,000 award that recognizes what the foundation described as their 'extraordinary contributions' to medicine."
The Wall Street Journal
"In some cities- New York, for example- many buyers think nothing of paying more than $1,000 per square foot for a home. But how about making one for $1,000?"
The Wall Street Journal
"Toyota Motor Corp. has started a series of basic research projects with U.S. universities to better understand key safety issues facing the auto industry, such as reducing driver distraction, cutting teen accidents and protecting pedestrians, children and the elderly in crashes."
The New York Times
"In other words, if Internet companies cannot track what you do online, they find it harder to pitch you stuff that you may be persuaded to buy."
Autopia- Wired
"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a tool to mine aircraft black boxes for valuable data after every flight, something they say will improve daily operations and prevent accidents."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Susan Kline, director of Career Development at MIT Sloan, explains why a prospective MBA should consider applying to her school."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Regina Barzilay, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is trying to make computers better listeners by making them play Civilization, a 20-year-old strategy game in which players build a city into an empire by vanquishing and absorbing neighboring cultures."
Popular Science
"Researchers at MIT have developed a tiny energy-harvester that is able to harness low-frequency vibrations like those made by a bridge or pipeline and converting them to electricity for wireless sensors."