Forbes
"All three sessions raised the significance of reintroducing guilds into organizations."
In the Media
The Huffington Post
"For his new video, 'The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station,' MIT student and photographer Alex Rivest took NASA's raw footage of the earth and sky and turned it into a cosmic tableau that's more Millennium Falcon than ISS."
Wired
"An aeronautical engineer claims to have solved some of the issues that grounded Concorde, with a supersonic biplane design."
Scientific American
"What makes us who we are? Where is our personal history recorded, or our hopes? What explains autism or schiziphrenia or remarkable genius? Sebastian Seung argues that it’s all in the connections our neurons make."
Nature
"The ability to see objects hidden behind walls could be invaluable in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas. Now scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have found a way to do just that."
The Huffington Post
"Ancient humans have changed the landscape around their settlements in such ways that even today archaeologists can distinguish between 'lived in' spots and those never occupied by humans. Now, two scientists have figured out a more efficient way of locating these sites, via their footprints, from space."
Financial Times
"Bringing the science knowhow and business acumen together was critical for the development of the technology, says Mr Lucchino. 'Everyone tries to work out which is more important. I think they are both equally important,' he says."
The Boston Globe
"At a time when California’s Silicon Valley dominates the digital innovation discussion, to have three grand prizes in the prominent national competition snared by local start-ups, all with roots at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shows that Greater Boston is a significant hotbed of new technologies, said industry advocates."
Financial Times
"With the fragmentation of the management education market, the popularity of the Sloan Fellows programme is soaring."
The Wall Street Journal
"'Ignorance is a good thing' in times of crises, because it supports market liquidity, argues Bengt Holmström (of MIT), the winner of the Banque de France‘s and Toulouse School of Economics‘ inaugural prize in Monetary Economics and Finance."
Popular Science
"When supersonic travel inevitably returns to the skies, the airplanes are going to look a lot different. At least one design harks back to the early days of aviation with a biplane design, rather than a sleek delta-winged jet like the Concorde."
Nature
"Hidden in the landscape of the fertile crescent of the Middle East, scientists say, lurk overlooked networks of small settlements that hold vital clues to ancient civilizations."
NPR
"We need noisy grassroots movements to deliver a shock to the political system." -MIT's Daron Acemoglu
Financial Times
"David Docherty, chief executive of the Council for Industry and Higher Education, said that any revival would founder, unless Britain did more to boost its supply of both future engineering leaders and apprentices."
The Boston Globe
"I had come to the Sloan School of Management cafeteria, its tall windows framing the Charles River, for coffee and a discussion of his favorite topic - why nations fail."