Boston.com
"When you give money to a person in need, it's natural to wonder how much good that money can do when it's up against the larger forces that created the need in the first place."
In the Media
The Wall Street Journal
"'Words to Eat By' abounds with such delicious historical detail. Ms. Lipkowitz, who teaches literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an appealing mixture of scholar and foodie, and she has written a toothsome study of the relationship between English-speakers' culinary and linguistic heritage."
The Boston Globe
"At start-up companies and in research laboratories, scientists are devising materials and technologies that could help remove or store carbon dioxide."
The Boston Globe
"Imagine how many well-prepared minds you would have to try to solve the country’s problems.” -MIT's Michael DeGraff
U.S. News & World Report
"The researchers brought the toy to the Museum of Science in Boston and asked 85 preschoolers to play with it under one of four different experimental conditions."
The New York Times
"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working to improve remote imaging of the piping at pressurized water reactors with the development of tiny, spherical robots that could work their way through them and send video images back to watchers in a control room."
Wired
"Fancy a job swimming through the radioactive pipes beneath a nuclear reactor? Probably not if you're a human, but that's just what this spherical robot is designed to do."
Marketplace- American Public Media
"You know those nature shows where they put a little tracking device on an animal and then release it into the wild? Some guys at MIT have done that with electronics."
The Wall Street Journal
"Researchers have shown that a computer can master the video game Civilization II—in part by reading the manual."
Idea Lab- PBS
"Successful civic media tools -- especially ones designed by this conference's attendees -- re-engineer how mass-mobilization happens. But does that mean we should turn the page on old lessons?"
NPR
"One provision of the Gang of Six proposal is reform, not eliminate, tax expenditures for health, charitable giving, homeownership and retirement."
The Huffington Post
"A new exhibit created by researchers at MIT's SENSEable City Lab for New York's Museum of Modern Art probes the "afterlife" of our discarded gadgets, from cellphones and batteries to printer cartridges and computers."
Wired
"The key thing about this process is that the neural network doesn’t even know whether it’s correctly identifying state/action pairs when it starts—it doesn’t know how to “read”—much less whether it has correctly interpreted the advice they convey (do you build near a river, or should you never build by a river?)."
CNN
"It's a gel-like substance that would replace vocal cords that have become rigid from extensive use. And it's moving closer to FDA approval."
Boston.com
“I wanted to make changes on the scope of millions."- Reid Hoffman