In the Media

"Hacking seems to be everywhere these days. But what if someone tried to retrieve data from your pacemaker? Or even tried to give you an electric shock with it?"

"Researchers at Google and MIT think they have come up with a novel way to transfer applications and data to a cellphone without a cable or wireless network. Their transfer mechanism of choice? The camera."

"The MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., and founded by the architect Nicholas Negroponte nearly 25 years ago, is famous for being a hotbed of radical innovation and futuristic vision."

"It’s the I-have-something-on-my-computer-screen-that-I-need-to-transfer-to-my-phone problem, and it plagues everyone."

"Audi and MIT's SENSEable City Lab have teamed up to design the car navigation system of the future -- a 3D display that will sit on the dashboard."

“Convergence means a broad rethinking of how all scientific research can be conducted.”

"We talked about what students are working on, the future for inventions we may see from MIT in our everyday lives and of course the robots that help push the boundaries of human-machine interaction."

"The Red Cross has moved to the First Congregational Church, with its clock lying twisted on the lumber-littered lawn."

"Over the last several years, an MIT professor has been pushing cobalt catalysts as a cheap replacement for the expensive metals typically used to split water."

"As implantable medical devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps have become more common, one innovative feature has been the addition of the ability to control the devices wirelessly via the internet."

"We’ve got sky-high unemployment. Employment and labor economics are Diamond’s Nobel prize-winning specialty. But ideology, he says, got in the way."

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have come up with a technology to run car batteries on something they call 'Cambridge crude,' which they hope will allow for cheaper, longer-range electric cars by the end of the decade."

"Robert Langer, a biomedical engineer at MIT best known for his contributions in the fields of tissue engineering and drug delivery, has been named the winner of the 2012 Priestley Medal, a prestigious prize awarded by the American Chemical Society."

"These waves, which by analogy can be likened to ‘ripples’ in Einstein’s space-time, carry energy and momentum away from the binary system, with the result that the entire system experiences a backward 'kick' or recoil. The black hole would end up being displaced by thousands of kilometers from its original location."

"To anyone attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1950s and 60s, a hack was simply an elegant or inspired solution to any given problem."