Bloomberg
"Two years after passage of the Dodd- Frank financial reform law, how are we doing putting in place crucial provisions, including a way to control systemic risk?" -MIT's Simon Johnson
In the Media
The Guardian
"MIT's Senseable City Lab has partnered with French rail operators SNCF to map delays to high speed trains over the course of a week."
Reuters
"Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of National Public Radio's popular 'Car Talk' program, will retire in September after decades of dispensing automotive repair and driving advice laced with a side of wicked humor."
The Wall Street Journal
"Mobile-game critters need money from their young keepers, and parents are paying. Are the marketers of expensive e-trinkets too eager to take advantage of child consumers?"
The Huffington Post
"The digital era, with online courses, electronic resources and real-time interaction with faculty thousands of miles away is going to drastically change the way we teach, interact, engage and ultimately learn."
BBC News
"Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to develop a banana piano."
Scientific American
"According to (MIT's Emile) Bruneau, numerous studies have shown that perspective taking works to improve the attitudes of dominant groups toward stigmatized ones—for example, that thinking about the mind of a homeless person makes us more amenable to helping him—but this method by no means has to translate to groups locking horns with one another."
Popular Science
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the saying goes, and a new algorithm will test that formula by predicting what will be wrong with a patient in the future, based on his or her past - and that of everyone else."
The Boston Globe
"'Death, if we can call it death, isn’t permanent for languages,' Norvin Richards, an MIT linguist, says in the film."
The New York Times
"Beyond all of the technical parameters, Nintendo’s most expansive goal with the Wii U, expected this holiday season (no price has been announced), is to persuade family members to put down their disparate gadgets once in a while and play together again."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"As in 2010, the 10-campus University of California system was the academic institution receiving the most patents (323), followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (160), Stanford University (153), and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (144), the patenting arm for the University of Wisconsin at Madison."
NPR
"(MIT's Les) Perelman says any student who can read can be taught to score very highly on a machine-graded test."
USA Today
"Major U.S. cities are among the world's wealthiest and technologically advanced, but they lag behind their counterparts in Latin America in preparing for climate change, a survey finds."
Forbes
"There’s a startup boom in online higher education, but nearly all of the players hope to advance by working within the system."
The Huffington Post
"A brilliant team at MIT was responsible for the most focused development program of HPAs ever, building BURD (which made brief hops), Chrysalis (a contender for the Channel Prize), Monarch A & B, and the prototype Michelob Light Eagle culminating in the Daedalus in 1988."