In the Media

Media Lab professor Tod Machover, YMWI CEO Barry Bittman, MD and post-doctoral appointee, Adam Boulanger, aim to create music composition tools that prevent or reduce the progression of mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease.”

“Wondering if any of the Milky Way's 50 billion planets are similar to Earth? A team of astronomers [including MIT’s Sara Seager] has figured out which colors of light future telescopes should look for.”

A survey of 370 CIOs by CIO magazine and the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) suggests that IT units have added a third major responsibility to their traditional build-and-run obligations: technology exploitation. This is the persistent effort to capitalize on a firm’s digital platforms, accumulated data, and new technologies—and it’s IT’s new value proposition.”

"MIT is one of only 63 schools out of the 1700 surveyed by U.S. News & World Report that claim to meet students' full financial need."

“A MIT researcher is developing a trainable manufacturing robot that will cost as little as $5,000, which would save employers significant money in salary and benefits.”

“Army Special Forces veteran Randy Tipton isn't quite ready to say he feels like television's ‘Six Million Dollar Man.’ But his brand-new robotic foot represents a groundbreaking advance in prosthetics technology made possible by tens of millions of dollars the U.S. government has poured into research to ‘rebuild’ service members who've lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

"Downtown Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to MIT's very own nuclear reactor, which is used in a variety of medical, imaging and power experiments."

“Scientists have been saying for years that as the planet heats up, we will have to deal with more severe weather. But pinning any particular event — such as a specific hurricane — to global warming is difficult at best. Now, scientists have tried to do just that.”

Smartest Machine on Earth - MIT Professor Patrick Winston is among those interviewed for the NOVA special about IBM's Watson, a supercomputer taking on two humans in Jeopardy! this week.

"Last night, an overflow crowd in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology lecture hall watched as IBM Corp.’s Watson computer played to a draw against human opponents in the quiz show 'Jeopardy!'"

"We’re trying to get people to understand it’s not about paper boats and cranes." - MIT sophomore Yanping Chen in a feature about OrigaMIT, an origami club at the Institute.

"Whatever the outcome, the fact that a machine is able to compete against the most successful players ever to appear on Jeopardy! 'is a remarkable achievement', says Boris Katz, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"A complete genetic map of prostate cancer has been charted for the first time by scientists, an achievement that may expand understanding of the disease and lead to new treatments." - New research from Levi Garraway of the Broad Institute

"An MIT economist and adviser to President Barack Obama is turning to comic books to help make the pitch for the administration's embattled health care law."

"Practicing pistol ... taught me a great deal of discipline and self-control. You always need to strive to achieve perfection in what you’re doing, and that mind-set carries with you to your academic life and your professional life." - Daipan Lee ’07, in a feature on MIT's sport pistol team