In the Media

"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."

"The US could cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 8 per cent with minimal additional capital investment, simply by making more use of existing gas-fired power plants, according to a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released on Thursday."

"On this week’s Bits: Tech Talk podcast, J.D. Biersdorfer chats with Frank Moss, former director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, about his new book 'The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices,' which looks at the lab’s approach to creating innovative technologies."

"The World Science Festival’s panel on Probability and Risk started out in an unusual manner: MIT’s Josh Tennenbaum strode onto a stage and flipped a coin five times, claiming he was psychically broadcasting each result to the audience."

"It is noteworthy this year that two of the best in Boston – Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management – selected women executives as their commencement and Class Day speakers."

"We created a strain of E. coli that can specifically bond to a molecule that is present in most malignant cancer cells and is able to deliver a therapeutic agent to the specific cell."

"The more troubling answer, though, points to a fundamental misunderstanding: a failure to recognize that analysis of unemployment is crucial to conducting monetary policy."

Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose specialty is technology and relationships, calls this a particular sort of "Huck Finn moment," in which Huck "takes his parents with him. We all sail down the Mississippi together."

"The students work essentially as partners with their teachers, and together they have produced technological innovations that often seem touched by magic, from the e-reader to the lifelike robotic prosthesis now in development."

"They reveal the persistent gaps in understanding of the mix of atmospheric conditions in America’s tornado hot zones that can transform a stormy, turbulent day into a catastrophic outbreak of funnel clouds."

"He didn’t think he could do it, but people encouraged him. He ended up at MIT and earned a Ph.D. in laser physics."

"What’s the difference between a ho-hum graduation speech and one destined for the history books?"

“Pleasantness and memorability are not the same,” says MIT graduate student Phillip Isola in a statement.

"This year, the magazine offers a new twist: the 10 most pet-friendly colleges."

“An MIT professor's book detailing the bare-knuckled political brawl by America's Founding Fathers to win ratification of the Constitution has received the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize.”