Scientific American
"The last symposium in M.I.T.'s 150-day celebration of its 150th anniversary is devoted to the question: 'Whatever happened to AI?'"
In the Media
Nature
"The next space-shuttle launch will inaugurate a quest for a realm of the Universe that few believe exists."
The Economist
"Drawing inspiration from the beetle’s fog-harvesting trick, Shreerang Chhatre, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues have developed a simple and inexpensive way to produce drinking water."
Boston Herald
“We don’t want him to be a martyr,” said Jim Walsh, a Mideast terrorism expert at MIT. “We don’t want him in his death to accomplish more than in his life."
The Boston Globe
"But yesterday, in an open house attended by thousands of the awestruck, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology swung wide its doors to places, people, and preposterously ingenious projects that the public rarely sees."
Boston.com
"The festival begins Saturday with a campus-wide open house at MIT that includes free admission to the MIT Museum, at 265 Massachusetts Ave., and a number of demonstrations and activities in celebration of MIT’s 150th anniversary."
The New York Times
"The spectrometer, the long-gestating brainchild of Sam Ting, a Nobel physics laureate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consists of a giant magnet and detectors that together act as a cosmic sifter, looking for evidence of the elusive 'dark matter' that is thought to pervade the universe."
The Boston Globe
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday named Joichi Ito as the next director of the MIT Media Lab."
The New York Times
"Experts on nuclear power predict that Japan’s Fukushima crisis will lead to a major rethinking of how spent nuclear fuel is handled in the United States but have cast doubt on a proposed solution: reprocessing the fuel to recover plutonium and other materials for reuse."
The Boston Globe
"The distracted are becoming so distracting that some college professors — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, no less — think it’s time to unwire the halls of higher education." - Editorial
CBS News
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology today released a report called the 'Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle,' where a panel argued that the U.S. policy needs to make spent-fuel treatment an integral part of nuclear plant operations, rather than an 'afterthought.'"
Forbes.com blogs
"In the drive to achieve solar cells that produce electricity more efficiently, we have a new ally – the M13 virus."
Wall Street Journal
"Organizations world-wide have placed a huge wager on information technology, spending an estimated $594 billion on computer hardware and software in 2010 alone. But what are the keys to making the most of this investment?"
L.A. Times
"'If you do an experiment with such a large magnet … you're entering a new domain. You don't know what you'll see,' said Ting, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who shared a 1976 Nobel Prize for discovering a subatomic particle."
The Economist
"In a paper presented last month, Hari Balakrishnan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests how a device's movements could be predicted by sampling data from built-in motion, positioning, and other sensors, bumping throughput by around 50%."