In the Media

"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 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."

"Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to develop a banana piano."

"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."

"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."

"'Death, if we can call it death, isn’t permanent for languages,' Norvin Richards, an MIT linguist, says in the film."

"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."

"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."

"(MIT's Les) Perelman says any student who can read can be taught to score very highly on a machine-graded test."

"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."

"There’s a startup boom in online higher education, but nearly all of the players hope to advance by working within the system."

"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."

"Would you let your elementary-schooler join the Facebook nation?"

"In a TED talk video, Transatomic co-founders Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie — both PhD students at MIT’s nuclear engineering department — point out how there’s been little innovation in the nuclear tech space over the years, partly because it’s hard for nuclear developers to adopt new technology in a world dominated by the lightwater nuclear reactor."

"A rat is smarter than Google. And that's no dig at Google, according to artificial intelligence researchers Yann LeCun and Josh Tenenbaum."