Boston.com
"Natan Linder, a researcher at MIT's Media Lab, asked a question most of us have never thought to ask: what if the lamp on your desktop could be transformed into a computer display?"
In the Media
TIME- Techland
"Researchers from MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone application called 'SignalGuru' that uses the camera from a dashboard-mounted smartphone to capture images of traffic lights. Once the images are captured, they're analyzed to detect whether the lights are green, yellow or red and then that data is passed along to other nearby SignalGuru users."
The Wall Street Journal
"It would seem that our culture’s relationship to Nature has evolved along with our economic susceptibility to natural disasters." -Kerry Emanuel
Reuters
"Michael Greenstone, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former Obama economic adviser, estimated that because millions of jobs were lost in the downturn, even a normally healthy rate of job creation would take at least 12 years to get the United States back to pre-recession employment levels."
CNN
"Where will Irene track? Which communities will be affected and how badly? Millions of lives and billions of dollars are at stake in decisions made by forecasters, emergency managers and all of us who live in or own property in harm's way." -MIT's Kerry Emanuel
The New York Times Magazine
“When you’re manufacturing anything, even if the work is done by robots and machines, there’s an incredible value chain involved.” -President Hockfield
Boston Herald
"There are festivals that celebrate food and music — and even winter — but leave it to MIT to sponsor one focused on entrepreneurship."
"As far as anyone knows, nobody has yet been assassinated by having their pacemaker hacked, or someone launching an attack on an insulin pump..."
Boston.com
"Because of the solidity of the earth’s crust on the eastern seaboard - unlike California, where there are networks of active faults - earthquakes tend to be felt over longer distances here, according to Thomas Herring, a geophysics professor at MIT."
The Washington Post
"Instead, students sit down at a table, as they otherwise would in a university dining hall, except the person sitting across from them would be across the country."
Forbes
"Although earthquakes are less frequent in the central and eastern U.S. than in the west, they’re typically felt over a broader area..."
Boston.com
"In a Massachusetts Institute of Technology cafeteria, down the hall from an early radar dish, is the 'wormhole,’ an oddly-shaped plexiglass dome hovering over a video screen."
National Geographic
"It's the first time a single drug has been shown to work against a range of viruses, from those that cause seasonal sniffles to more fatal diseases."
Forbes
"Imagine yourself in a crowded lecture hall, utterly confused by the lesson. Normally, this situation offers two choices: You are baffled for the entire class, or you raise your hand and halt the entire lecture because you didn’t get it."
The New York Times
"The digital future, it seems, will be less a takeover of the physical world than a marriage with it. 'This bits-atoms dichotomy is becoming less and less true,' said Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the M.I.T. Center for Digital Business."