Forbes
"I see many opportunities in countries like India and China that are creating a lot of action and excitement..." - CSAIL's Anant Agarwal
In the Media
New Scientist
"The idea is to identify before the event whether the brain is prepared to be a learner." -John Gabrieli
Fast Company
"...the same kind of computer modeling that predicts whether car components can hold their own in a crash could also forecast whether pipes will fracture at offshore drilling sites."
CNET
"Jose Gomez-Marquez is like the MacGyver of medical devices, hacking toys and turning them into gadgets that can be used to diagnose conditions such as diabetes and dengue fever."
U.S. News and World Report
"When prospective college students begin looking for their future homes, one statistic they may want to evaluate is a school's freshman retention rate."
The Washington Post
"App Inventor will live on as part of a new MIT Center for Mobile Learning, which will be housed at the famed MIT Media Lab and run by App Inventor creator Hal Abelson, along with fellow MIT professors Eric Klopfer and Mitchel Resnick (both of whom were also instrumental in the creation of the project)."
Scientific American
"Several projects coordinated by MIT's Senseable City lab have revealed the powerful urban insights that can occur when people are linked via networks of sensors."
CBS News
"If the theory holds up, it would mean that oxygen was present on Earth 300 million years before seeping in the atmosphere, creating ripe conditions for the development of life-nurturing marine environments."
Boston.com
"In a new paper, " Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity," Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at MIT, explains why computational complexity theorists believe that some problems are practically uncomputable. He lays out some of the implications this might have for some of the biggest questions in philosophy, physics, biology, and economics."
Boston.com
"The result is a race to solve one of their biggest equipment challenges: developing a helmet that not only protects brains from the traditional enemies of bullets and shrapnel but also from blunt blows and invisible, devastating blast waves from explosions."
Popular Science
"Such high-res, high-speed data gathering has never been achieved before, and if successful the new laser system could have implications for everything from basic chemistry to complex pharmaceutical research and chemical engineering."
Chicago Tribune
"It obviously would be really useful if scientists could come up with a potent antiviral therapy that could be used against a broad array of viruses. Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory think they're on the way to doing just that."
Boston.com
"Gradual exits from long careers are becoming increasingly attractive to older workers and employers as both try to navigate an uncertain economy, changing workforce, and evolving views of retirement."
Autopia- Wired
"A Spanish entrepreneur wants to give you a glimpse of the black expanse of space and the curvature of the earth from a most unusual vantage point — a balloon."
New Scientist
"Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a method of storing energy generated by off-shore wind turbines that could solve this problem. Dubbed the Ocean Renewable Energy System (ORES), the system is based on an underwater pumped hydraulic system."