The Boston Globe
“The fundamental dramatic structure of ‘Dhalgren’ is to take ordinary society and then remove a large chunk of it and see what is left."
In the Media
Google blog
"2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded to speed along America’s industrial progress through scientific innovation."
U.S. News & World Report
“New research reveals that it’s possible for a few individuals to enslave an entire network, even if they aren’t highly connected themselves.”
The Economist
“A new method of making electricity from sunlight has just been tested.”
The Boston Globe
“Why would somebody go to MIT for a bachelor’s degree in music?”
YouTube
“An MIT professor creates an advanced bionic limb giving amputees the power to move forward.” - Video with Hugh Herr
WBUR
"Joichi Ito initially thought he wouldn’t be a good fit for MIT."
cnet news
"It's like being in Silicon Valley in the 1990s for energy here now. There are some amazing professors ... Even Obama came here to talk about energy research." - Ben Wheeler, an graduate student in the Leaders for Global Operations program, on being at MIT. The story is part of CNET's series on students and tech jobs.
The New York Times blogs
“Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo — both professors at M.I.T. — have helped changed the practice of economics.”
The Boston Globe
"CoolChip Technologies yesterday won the MIT Clean Energy Prize for developing a technology that reduces data centers’ cooling needs, said NStar, one of the sponsors."
The Boston Globe
“When they started iRobot Corp. in 1990, MIT grads Helen Greiner and Colin Angle knew they wanted to build robots; they’d figure out their business model later.” - Part of the special section on MIT at 150
Wired
“Imagine a piece of metal 30,000 times thinner than one of the hairs on your head. Mixed with a little protein from bee venom, that microscopic filament becomes the most powerful explosives-detection system in history, able to detect a single molecule of dangerous chemicals.”
Wall Street Journal blogs
"During a panel discussion—moderated by linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker—that kicked off MIT’s Brains, Minds, and Machines symposium, panelists called for a return to the style of research that marked the early years of the field, one driven more by curiosity rather than narrow applications."
The Boston Herald
"A Boston company that plans to make synthetic jet fuel from grease and animal fat is among five teams vying for MIT’s $200,000 Clean Energy Prize."
National Public Radio (NPR)
"Banerjee's studies have shown that for the poor, improving their quality of life is just as important as improving their nutrition."