The Wall Street Journal
"How much money will I need for health costs? What are the best ways to budget? How can I shield myself and my family against the steep price of long-term care?"
In the Media
The Boston Globe
"Watson today will be competing against teams of MIT and Harvard students in a 'Jeopardy' game."
New Scientist
"If you struggle to carve a jack-o'-lantern, you might prefer this high-tech alternative."
The Huffington Post
"Susan Hockfield President of MIT said, 'Our economy will thrive only when we make what we invent.' She's right."
Popular Science
"In 2011 the volume of available data is predicted to continue along its exponential growth curve to 1.8 zettabytes. (A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes; that’s a 1 with 21 zeros trailing behind it.)"
Russia- Beyond the Headlines
"The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SIST) recently announced that it’s first president will be MIT professor Edward Crawley."
NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook
"Late at night, while you’re asleep, guys with no PhDs sit around trying to figure out the mysteries of the universe."
FT- The Financial Times
"Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed radar technology to see through thick concrete or brick walls - which could give soldiers in urban warfare the equivalent of X-ray vision."
The Huffington Post
"I'd been in contact with MIT Professor Dava Newman and Postdoctoral Associate Ryan Kobrick, who'd told me that astronaut Nicholas Patrick would be giving a presentation at MIT's Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering department sometime in the next week..."
CNN
"Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson’s new book Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy is getting a ton of press."
New Scientist
"We think planets were built of things like Lutetia...We're getting a chance to see one of the building blocks of the solar system up close." -MIT's Ben Weiss
The Boston Globe
"In his narrow, crowded office at MIT, Martin Marks plays the piano. Just over his shoulder, the screen of his Mac is showing 'Faust,’ a classic German film made in 1926 by F.W. Murnau."
Physics Today
"A new spectroscopic design that alters the geometry of a key optical element advances the development of a portable noninvasive glucose monitor."
The Wall Street Journal
"Economists at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have just released what they claim to be the crystal ball of economics: a model for predicting a nation’s future growth more accurately than any other techniques out there."
Boston.com
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology signed an agreement this morning to jointly found a graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a planned technology research hub outside Moscow meant to be Russia’s equivalent of Silicon Valley."