In the Media

"Sea worms, jellyfish, geckos and spiders may seem unlikely muses to cutting-edge technology. But these creatures are helping stimulate medical innovations — including new adhesives, diagnostic tests and needles — that are slowly migrating from the lab to the clinic."

"On the fifth floor of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, David Mellis has just plugged in the mobile phone I spent all afternoon soldering together. That's right: I just built a cellphone. By hand."

"On the fifth floor of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, David Mellis has just plugged in the mobile phone I spent all afternoon soldering together. That's right: I just built a cellphone. By hand."

"...Machover developed the 'hyperinstrument', which he defines as 'an instrument that knows how it is being played – and can sound like anything'."

"'What attracts a lot of people to cheesemaking,' says Paxson recently in her office, 'is that it’s magical: the transubstantiation of fluid milk to solid food. A lot of people [I interviewed] described cheese’s liveliness and used developmental metaphors like "hitting puberty" and "maturity." They anthropomorphize the cheese.'”

"MIT researchers say they have found a way for the cloud to handle databases 20 times more efficiently."

"The coverage of 3D printing is a bit like the coverage of microwave ovens in the 50s. Microwaves are useful for some things, but they didn't replace the rest of your kitchen"

"A comet visible in the night sky with a pair of binoculars for much of this month was discovered using technology developed at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington."

"...a study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mass. General, and Boston University, has taken a systematic approach to understand the changes in brain activity that occur as a patient goes under with an anesthesia drug."

"One key purpose of the new fund, Ito explained to me recently, will be to encourage students to finish their degrees before they start companies."

"I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on 'Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education'..." - Tom Friedman Column, New York Times

"We are at the beginning of a technology-led revolution in pedagogy: Our innovation is not the blackboard, but instead an evolving suite of tools that allows interactive learning online." — Boston Globe Op/Ed co-authored by MIT President L. Rafael Reif and Harvard President Drew Faust

"Ernest J. Moniz, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Initiative, is the president’s choice to take over for Steven Chu at the Energy Department."

"The more Miyagawa studied the distinction between lexical structure and expression structure, 'the more I started to think, "Gee, these two systems are really fundamentally different," ' he says. 'They almost seem like two different systems that just happen to be put together,' perhaps through evolution."

“Once we amplify these small motions, there’s like a whole new world you can look at,” he said.