In the Media

"The Moon's face is an open book, but its deeper nature is still a mystery."

"An experimental system called SignalGuru uses a network of smartphones in cars to minimize driver stops and starts."

"Then, the app tells you how fast you should drive to avoid hitting red lights, leading to a smoother ride, less gas used, and fewer emissions. SignalGuru works best on a timed light-changing system. During a test in Massachusetts, drivers who used SignalGuru reduced gas consumption by 20 percent."

"This provides a much more comfortable way of creating a 3D ear map. The idea was initially developed in an MIT lab presided over by Doug Hart."

"Cambridge crude n.- A liquid fuel for powering electric cars. Invented in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by MIT researchers, the black, rechargeable slurry of pulverized electrodes in battery fluid can be pumped into an electric vehicle, replenishing its energy supply in minutes."

"The map he used was produced with Sourcemap, a local start-up that combines mapping software with carbon footprint information to help people track the carbon used to produce the things they eat, use, and wear."

"Natan Linder, a researcher at MIT's Media Lab, asked a question most of us have never thought to ask: what if the lamp on your desktop could be transformed into a computer display?"

"Researchers from MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone application called 'SignalGuru' that uses the camera from a dashboard-mounted smartphone to capture images of traffic lights. Once the images are captured, they're analyzed to detect whether the lights are green, yellow or red and then that data is passed along to other nearby SignalGuru users."

"It would seem that our culture’s relationship to Nature has evolved along with our economic susceptibility to natural disasters." -Kerry Emanuel

"Michael Greenstone, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former Obama economic adviser, estimated that because millions of jobs were lost in the downturn, even a normally healthy rate of job creation would take at least 12 years to get the United States back to pre-recession employment levels."

"Where will Irene track? Which communities will be affected and how badly? Millions of lives and billions of dollars are at stake in decisions made by forecasters, emergency managers and all of us who live in or own property in harm's way." -MIT's Kerry Emanuel

“When you’re manufacturing anything, even if the work is done by robots and machines, there’s an incredible value chain involved.” -President Hockfield

"There are festivals that celebrate food and music — and even winter — but leave it to MIT to sponsor one focused on entrepreneurship."

"As far as anyone knows, nobody has yet been assassinated by having their pacemaker hacked, or someone launching an attack on an insulin pump..."

"Because of the solidity of the earth’s crust on the eastern seaboard - unlike California, where there are networks of active faults - earthquakes tend to be felt over longer distances here, according to Thomas Herring, a geophysics professor at MIT."