In the Media

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, in their Sustainability Initiative, has measured sustainability innovation by interviewing global executives for the past three years."

"In 2005, Deb Roy, director of the Cognitive Machines group at MIT's Media Lab, installed 11 cameras and 14 microphones in his Boston home to study how his newborn son learned language. The result was more than 240,000 hours of multitrack audio and video that proved incredibly hard to decode."

"Adam Smith and Karl Marx were wrong -- or at least, they had only half the story. The daily ebb and flow of our societies is the sum of billions of individual exchanges: people trading information, money, goods or just gossip." -MIT's Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

"The edX project, set up by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced a plan to 'bring a new teaching model to the classroom'."

"Seriously, stop whatever you're doing this instant and watch the song you know so well get its tempo set to the beat of a heart in the above experiment."

"At the age of 13, a boy living in Sierra Leone created batteries and generators using materials he picked up around the house or from trash bins. Now, he's wowing experts in the U.S."

"What if we could use solar energy when the sun has set, or wind energy when the air is calm? Donald Sadoway is working on a way to make that happen."

"Moreover, these massive open online courses, or MOOCs, harness the power of their huge enrollments to teach in new ways, applying crowd-sourcing technology to discussion forums and grading and enabling professors to use online lectures and reserve on-campus class time for interaction with students."

"Ed Boyden, an engineer turned neuroscientist, makes tools for brain hackers."

"Two Boston-area community colleges will offer an adapted version of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology online course in computer science with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."

"Smart headlights, emergency response systems and reverse-monitoring features rank highest in car technologies that benefit mature drivers according to The Hartford and MIT AgeLab’s Top Technologies for Mature Drivers Research."

"'Investors are still worried by the volatility roller coaster they see in the equity market,' says Andrew Lo, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'Investors, and in particular retirees, feel they have little choice but to go into bonds.'"

"The fast-moving world of online education, where anyone can take classes at a world-famous university, is making a new foray into the community college system, with a personal twist."

"Sasha Costanza-Chock, a professor of civic media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says disaster preparedness is about more than stocking up on bottled water, packaged meals and fresh batteries. It’s also a matter of pooling technical resources to solve the problems that can arise quickly, like how to move supplies to those in need and relay reliable information about shelters and food."

"There is no one thing that can end poverty." -MIT's Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo