In the Media

"Sketchpad was so clever that it’s still cool today; it must have been unimaginably so almost fifty years ago."

"Scientists once thought glia, which are at least as prevalent as neurons in the brain, were passive support cells; the word 'glia' comes from the Greek word for 'glue.' Research in the past decade has revealed that these cells, as well as neurons, are active players in cognition."

"'The old educational financing model frankly is no longer sustainable...This is an evidence-based approach to a new form of learning.'"

"Cambridge, eager to preserve Kendall Square as a hothouse of innovation, is poised to become the first community in the country to require commercial developers to set aside lower-cost offices for start-up companies and budding entrepreneurs."

"Researchers at MIT have built an ionic thruster—a device that can lift something into the air by charging the air molecules around it. Amazing, right? Though not in the way you might think."

“'The selection of TESS has just accelerated our chances of finding life on another planet within the next decade,' said planetary scientist Sara Seager"

"...in theory, graphene desalination plants should be simple to build and maintain, and would work in the poorest village. It may not be diamond. But graphene could yet turn out to be the world’s best friend."

"The head of edX, the MIT professor Anant Agarwal, said the resulting open source software will allow a 'planet-scale democratization of education' – a bold claim amid an ed tech boom full of bold claims."

"Let that long-held breath out, folks. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has picked up a lot of mysterious antimatter in low Earth orbit – but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a sign of dark matter."

"During these contemplative moments, you have to wonder what's going on inside the head of this young scientist who, at age 33, has already helped invent influential technologies in the study of the human brain."

"'This disease [cancer] is much more complex than we have been treating it,' says MIT’s Phillip Sharp. 'And the complexity is stunning.'"

"Cancer geneticist Matthew Meyerson, who is at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, tracks the many ways tumors wreak chaos in orderly cells. He wants to squeeze into his schedule a dedicated time period in Gad Getz's lab at the Broad Institute to hone his computational skills for analyzing data about cancer genomes."

"In a report published this week, a team including researchers from MIT and Harvard revealed that anonymized cellphone location data demonstrate patterns of behavior that could be used to identify a person."

“'I am like the first person in my city to get into MIT ever so I have become sort of pretty famous,' he said. 'I was so motivated by how we were taught [by edX] that I decided that maybe I belong to MIT after all.'”

"When Turkle left the show in L.A., 'the response to him [Aziz Ansari] was that he was on to something really true. . . . I think he’s capturing the kind of paradoxes and difficulties of modern love and modern life.'”