In the Media

"The geeks can come over and the suits can come over and they can all work together to build a company." -MIT's Bill Aulet

"Computer science guru Nicholas Negroponte is best known as the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, creator of the One Laptop per Child Association and being a savvy investor..."

"Still, there are intriguing signs that the manufacturing job picture could stabilize or perhaps improve in the coming years, thanks to a combination of forces unleashed by the Great Recession and by globalization."

"Students from Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management will take on IBM Corp.’s Watson, the supercomputer that famously beat two human competitors in the TV show game show Jeopardy!"

"Have you ever wondered what nanotube chemistry might look like as a dance?"

"A Massachusetts-led team of researchers has mapped out much of the mysterious “dark matter” that regulates the human genome and is the source of many disease-causing mutations, findings that appear in a paper published today."

"Graphene has been hailed as a 'miracle material' which could revolutionize materials science because of its unique properties."

"Kristin Forbes has experience at the top of two professions: academia and policy."

"However, this training doesn't address the lack of workers trained in the specific skills needed for today's advanced and higher tech manufacturing."

"One of the keenest areas of solar power research these days is into how nature turns the sun’s rays into energy for growth."

"Researchers at MIT have discovered that graphene can turn light into electricity, but not the way you’d think."

"Stand up too quickly and you might see stars. Analysing the area of the brain that creates these tiny flashes of light could help blind people to see."

"The most optimistic researchers believe that these storehouses of “big data” will for the first time reveal sociological laws of human behavior — enabling them to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability, just as physicists and chemists can predict natural phenomena."

"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Cognitive and Brain Science Department, researchers hoping to restore sight have focused not on repairing the eyes that have ceased to function or the wiring that has frayed; instead, they have proposed to supply the electrical messages that the brain interprets as an 'image' directly to the brain's visual cortex."

"Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts formed the venture to boost academic research in protein structure, fluid flows, the dynamics of the earth's atmosphere, human social interaction, the evolution of the galaxy and other issues."