In the Media

"The grant is focused on an effort to help colleges serving low-income students teach an official course based around MITx materials, using an approach called the 'flipped classroom.'"

"America has a wealth of natural gas in the ground. So, how do we get it into our cars?"

"Stephen E. Carson, external-relations director at MIT OpenCourseWare, the free online publication of the university's lectures and other course materials, says peer learning is a natural extension of the first wave of open-course initiatives, which have focused on getting content out to large audiences at little or no cost."

"One of my themes of these last almost eight years has been taking the basket off the lamp and letting our beacon of inspiration shine more brightly." — Susan Hockfield

"Specifically, a team of MIT researchers led by Professor Alexander 'Sandy' Pentland discovered that call center workers who took the time to converse with their co-workers, instead of just grinding away, got through calls faster, felt less tension and earned the same approval ratings as their peers who didn’t schmooze at the office."

"The winners of the Knight News Challenge: Networks were revealed Monday at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The challenge is one of three being held by the foundation this year, each designed to promote innovations in the dissemination of news and information."

"For centuries, humans have used the power of their brains to solve complex mysteries, create radical new inventions, and devise wondrous works of art. But now, scientists have developed a technology that enables us to use our brains to actually harvest electrical power."

"What does your technology want from you?"

"The next step is urbanites using technology to help run their cities."

"(MIT's Eric) Alm is among a small but growing cadre of scientists who are using themselves as research subjects. They are taking advantage of faster and cheaper technologies, ranging from custom apps on smartphones to gene sequencing, in order to monitor aspects of their behavior and biology in unprecedented detail."

"In the video below, I asked President Hockfield, who is retiring from MIT at the end of the month, to do a little college calculation for us."

"A new MIT fuel cell could extend that futuristic idea to humans by drawing its power from the fluid surrounding the human brain."

"Among the youngest of startups, the most prestigious award is to win the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, which recognizes pure potential only in its quest to find the greatest business plan on earth, or at least among the MIT community."

"The prostheses of the future will be powered by spinal fluid."

"Manipulating blurry digital images in TV programmes like CSI often produces unfeasibly clear pictures of a suspect's face, but it turns out that it is possible to extract important forensic details from shadowy images after all."