In the Media

"While the ouster of a number of top Wall Street women cannot necessarily be tied directly to the glass ceiling or sexism per se, the numbers aren't good." -MIT's Deborah Ancona

"If you have a pacemaker or an insulin pump, you may not be aware that you’re potentially a walking target for hackers."

"How much economic oomph would be produced by a big federal government push to refinance mortgages for borrowers who can’t refinance because their incomes are too low or because their mortgages are bigger than the shrunken value of their homes or because the fees are prohibitive?"

"Central bankers should take food prices into account in setting policy and targeting inflation, said Roberto Rigobon, an economics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management."

“People were pretty resilient” after 9/11, says MIT logistics professor Yossi Sheffi, author of a 2005 book on disaster preparedness. “The seminal event was Y2K.”

"At the MIT Biomechatronics lab, professor Hugh Herr is creating robotic prosthetics that mimic the functions of real limbs, leading to a new bionic age."

"Because hedge funds are expected and incentivized to take on a broad variety of risks, they can get killed during bad times from market turmoil and dislocation." - MIT's Andrew Lo

"In their new book, 'Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone,' Paul Osterman (of MIT) and Beth Shulman argue that the United States needs to worry about not just creating millions more jobs but also ensuring that the jobs are good ones."

"NASA is going back to the moon once again, sending a pair of spacecraft on a quest to learn the origins of our closest companion by studying its interior and its gravitational field."

"More than 100 spacecraft have been to the moon, including six with U.S. astronauts, but one key piece of information about Earth's natural satellite is still missing -- what's inside."

"Modern technology is dotted throughout the gallery - from the space suit designed by MIT aeronautical engineer Dava Newman to a pair of hexapod robots."

“You don’t take your shoes off anywhere but in the U.S. — not in Israel, in Amsterdam, in London,” said Yossi Sheffi, an Israeli-born expert on risk analysis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We all know why we do it here, but this seems to be a make-everybody-feel-good thing rather than a necessity.”

"Business groups and organized labor have at least one thing in common right now: a frustration that our politics are producing more hot rhetoric than good jobs, even as crucial national needs go unaddressed." -MIT's Thomas A. Kochan

“'Traffic signals are one of the least-efficient parts of the transportation system, so we decided to see if we could leverage smartphones to improve the flow of vehicles through them,' said Emmanouil Koukoumidis, a 28-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology visiting researcher who led the project."

"On Thursday, President Obama will deliver a major speech on America’s employment crisis. But too often, what is lost in the call for job creation is a clear idea of what jobs we want to create." -MIT's Paul Osterman