In the Media

MIT Looks For Clues To Revive US Manufacturing - MIT professor Suzanne Berger is a guest on WBUR's Here and Now, speaking about MIT's manufacturing initiative.

"For the last decade researchers have been exploring the possibility of building planes with hydrophobic, or water-repellent, materials that would not require de-icing. But now, researchers from M.I.T. report that this approach is flawed."

"Infants as young as 7 months have the ability to perceive and understand another person’s point of view, according to a new study in the journal Science [co-authored by Ansgar Endress, a cognitive psychologist at M.I.T.]."

"Hey, the planet’s leading center of science, technology, and precision engineering turns 150 years old only once. So you’ll forgive the lovable geeks over at MIT if they spent four years planning the Institute’s sesquicentennial celebration."

"On Saturday, the museum will kick off the university’s yearlong 150th birthday celebration with the opening of the “MIT 150’’ exhibition."

"A facial-recognition system developed at the M.I.T. Media Lab and commercialized by Affectiva tracks face movements and links them with a database of expressions."

"'The biggest concern among patients is, 'Am I going to wake up?' said lead study author Dr. Emery Brown, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

The Public Option: Parks and Libraries Soar - The new MIT Media Lab Extension is listed as one of Wall Street Journal's most notable architectural structures of 2010.

"Lawrence David and Eric Alm from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mapped the evolutionary history of 3983 gene families that occur in a wide range of modern species. They were able to show that 27 per cent of these gene families appeared in a short evolutionary burst which began about 3.3 billion years ago."

"About 27 percent of all gene families that exist today were born between 3.3 billion and 2.8 billion years ago, two researchers from MIT report online December 19 in Nature." - This article originally ran in Science News.

"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one experimental camera has no lens at all: it uses reflected light, computer processing and other tools to let it see around corners."

"A striking study led by an MIT Sloan School of Management professor shows that teams of people display a collective intelligence that has surprisingly little to do with the intelligence of the team’s individual members."

"Dr. Weinberg and colleagues at MIT's Whitehead Institute are collaborating with researcher Eric Lander at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University in one effort to hunt for potential cancer stem cell killers."

"Deciphering an unknown language is a challenge even for veteran linguists. But in July, MIT computer scientist Regina Barzilay proved that a computer can do the job well and with astonishing speed." - #51 on the 'Top 100 Stories of 2010'