In the Media

"Which university is top-rated for engineering? Opinions differ, of course. But an annual ranking of 200 universities around the globe indicates that 13 of the top 15 universities for engineering are right here in the U.S."

"'Everybody is in favor of safeguards,' said Donald R. Sadoway, a professor of material chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'And the batteries could be fine as manufactured, and tested and perform in excess of specifications.'"

"The issue with driverless cars, says Bryan Reimer, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AgeLab, isn’t the machines. It’s us."

"You planned, saved, invested and even survived the economic downturn — but have you planned how you will get around in retirement?"

"The City of Boston plans to launch a partnership with the two institutions through the experimental online initiative edX, which offers free courses to anyone with Internet access."

"The next round of reductions will require more serious action, probably jettisoning 15 percent of the force — and more if rising personnel costs are not brought under control." -MIT's Cindy Williams

"The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. I say this for two main reasons."

"Restoring sight to the blind has proved particularly challenging for scientists, but a new technology combining an eye implant and video-camera-enabled glasses may soon be available in the U.S."

"A study published in Businessweek calculated the return on investment for hundreds of colleges and universities in the country, and found that MIT, Harvard University, and Babson College were among the schools considered the best investment."

"The best hope for achieving the transition to a low-carbon economy is through innovation to reduce the costs of new energy technologies."

"MOOCs are vastly extending the reach of professors at some of the world’s best universities, particularly at Stanford, Harvard, M.I.T., Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Duke."

"It may soon be possible to control heat flows with great precision."

"Forget the endless debates about the euro or government debts. What does the future hold?"

"He wanted to write a symphony not for the city of Toronto but with the city of Toronto, a piece of music that would ultimately be about Toronto in a way that was granular, participatory, and reflective of an urban landscape in all of its component parts."

"Nothing has more potential to unlock a billion more brains to solve the world’s biggest problems. And nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity."