The Boston Globe
"The Review listed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the nation’s second-best undergraduate program in game design, bested only by the University of Southern California."
In the Media
CNN
"The complex architecture of the human brain and how its billions of nerve cells communicate has baffled the greatest minds for centuries."
Reuters
"Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, respectively, is a wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don't."
The Huffington Post
"Does a new study lend support to Richard Lindzen's 'iris effect' hypothesis?"
EE Times
"Reviving U.S. manufacturing has emerged as such a hot election-year issue that an entire afternoon of an energy technology conference was devoted to the barriers to domestic manufacturing and obstacles to retraining the U.S. manufacturing workforce."
The Energy Fix
"At the 2012 ARPA-E’s concluding plenary session this morning, the retiring President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Susan Hockfield, offered five part shots (my words) to leaders in government, industry, energy research and clean tech financing to solve America’s energy challenges, especially where it involves manufacturing."
NPR
"What is good privacy hygiene? What are some good habits in terms of protecting one's privacy in the digital age? What do they teach their kids about privacy in the digital age?"
The New York Times
"Remember when you were willing to wait a few seconds for a computer to respond to a click on a Web site or a tap on a keyboard?"
WBUR
"When we think of a concept or a memory — or have a perception or feeling — our brain's neurons quickly fire and talk to each other across connections called synapses. How these neurons interact with each other — and what the wiring is like between them — is key to understanding our identity, says Sebastian Seung, a professor of computational neuroscience at MIT."
Wired
"Rather than a handful of corporate pharmaceutical behemoths controlling the simple narrative that depression is a 'chemical imbalance,' YouTube has become the center of a much more complex mediascape in which everyday individuals get to tell their own stories about depression and drugs, which often challenge drug companies’ own dominant brain-based explanations."
Los Angeles Times
"This is no ordinary economics book – it’s a graphic novel."
The Boston Globe
"The Massachusetts economy should grow modestly this year and slowly bring down the unemployment -- provided energy prices and the European debt crisis don’t spin out of control, a group of leading local economists said."
The New York Times
"The Sloan conference has become the premier event for those who like to combine their rebounds with regression analyses to find new insights into sports."
The Boston Globe
"If you are worried that spending all day answering text messages and opening e-mails is making you dumber, you might be right."
The Boston Globe
"But in a small pilot program, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created technologies that will ultimately enable cellphones to automatically detect and intervene when a person suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or substance abuse problems needs support."