The Boston Globe
"An advisory committee racing to meet a deadline on recommending changes to the way Boston assigns students to schools will have until at least January to cast a vote, the mayor’s office announced Thursday."
In the Media
The Washington Post
"Most arguments about tax brackets in the United States are over a percentage point or two."
Forbes India
"Does microcredit reduce poverty? Do laptops in schools improve student learning? If you believe in Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) as the only way to evaluate an intervention, the answers to the questions are: No and No."
Reuters
"Pilots at United Airlines and American Airlines are due to vote in coming weeks on new labor contracts that in some cases offer the first significant raises in almost a decade."
Boston Herald
"MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and famed filmmaker J.J. Abrams experienced what you might call a Vulcan mind meld yesterday."
Forbes India
"In operations research John Little is best known for his proof of the queuing formula, commonly known as Little’s Law."
The Wall Street Journal
"In 2010, MIT researchers used similar methods to predict health. Studying early-morning and late-night call and text patterns, they could discern if a person was suffering from colds, stress or mild depression."
Wired.co.uk
"Holographic TV may remain a distant prospect, but the Media Lab's Camera Culture group is developing the next best thing: screens capable of producing glasses-free 3D images that can be seen from various angles."
UPI.com
"U.S. physicists say unexpected results from the Large Hadron Collider suggest its particle collisions may be producing a new type of matter."
Scientific American
"How bad are the storms, flooding, and other disasters going to be in 20 years? This new simulation can help governments plan."
The Wall Street Journal
"One would think that, as a global commodity, any particular grade of oil would fetch a similar price regardless of where it was sent, but for a 12-year stretch Saudi Arabia sold crude to U.S. refiners at a substantial discount. To judge from the political contributions they made, the refiners appreciated the gesture."
Forbes
"The well-known success of information technologies (IT) in India is actually two successes, with two sets of implications and potential." - MIT's Iqbal Quadir
Forbes
Two Technologies Propelling India Forward - "The well-known success of information technologies in India is actually two successes, with two sets of implications and potential."
Popular Science
"Particle collisions are turning up unexpected quantum weirdness."
The Boston Globe
"Started in December 2010, the Sandbox is a project of the Deshpande Foundation, a global think tank based at MIT that champions entrepreneurship and innovation as catalysts for sustainable change."