In the Media

"If everybody aims to use cheap electricity, the slow time in the middle of the night becomes the high demand time. In the worst case, everybody's laptops start recharging, refrigerator compressors kick on, dishwashers start up and so on, at the exact same moment."

"It was August 6, 1991, at a CERN facility in the Swiss Alps, when 36-year-old physicist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website."

"With the United States government now shorn of its top credit rating by Standard & Poor's, experts are increasingly worried that the American economy is headed back into recession, while Europe appears vulnerable to another shock."

"NASA's space shuttle may be down for the count, but robotic planetary missions are up, up and away. Before the end of this year, three new solar system probes are due to launch."

"Recognizing written words is tough enough for people with dyslexia. But a new study suggests the disorder might also make it harder to recognize the voices of people as they speak."

"In the world of engineers and investors, there's something called the "elevator pitch." It's what you'd say if you ran into a rich investor in an elevator, and had only 60 seconds to sell your product. The concept is so common that MIT actually hosts a contest for the best elevator pitch."

"After surviving a Nazi concentration camp as a boy and fleeing communist rule in his native Czechoslovakia, Michael Gruenbaum remembers well the first job he got upon immigrating to the United States and becoming a student at MIT."

"Maria Zuber, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, says this is a compelling new theory of why the moon can have mountains, even if it doesn't have any volcanoes or colliding continents."

"Scientists have developed a mathematical model that predicts the maximum height trees can reach in particular environmental conditions."

"In this case, it’s the students at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab, who’ve successfully programmed a PR2 to bake a cookie, starting with putting all the ingredients in a bowl, mixing them, putting them in a pan, then a toaster oven to bake."

"A robot that bakes cookies!"

"When Jolt detects that a program is stuck in a certain kind of infinite loop, it can force it to exit the loop and continue executing."

"A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has figured out a way to deliver low cost solar energy at night as well as during the day, by combining a concentrated solar power system with a molten salt heat storage system."

"If it works, this black sludge will transform the rechargeable battery, doubling the range of electric cars and making petroleum obsolete."

"MIT engineers have a reputation for applying their vast intellectual resources and physical energies toward solving some of mankind’s greatest challenges. And it’s fair to say this morning that at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, researchers have lived up to that expectation."