In the Media

"Superimposing a historic photo on an up-to-date snap of the same scene is a neat way to bring history to life." - Story on collaborative work from MIT and Adobe on software that can help match current photos to ones taken at the same place and angle previously.

NBC News is convening its own summit with education and political leaders in September to talk about ways to improve schools in light of statistics showing the U.S. lagging in student achievement. - MIT President Susan Hockfield will take part in the summit.

"Most telescopes focus on the hottest and brightest objects in the universe. WISE is especially sensitive to seeing what's cool and dark, what you could call the stealth objects of the universe." - Richard Binzel, professor of planetary sciences, on WISE, or Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a new NASA telescope.

Video: The Culture of Innovation - Director of MIT's Industrial Performance Center and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Richard Lester discusses work out of MIT.

"The goal is to enable people to become creators, not just consumers, in this mobile world." - Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, on software he helped develop to make it easy for people to write applications for Android smartphones.

What about a spoon that uses tiny sensors to measure the temperature, acidity, salinity and viscosity of a food you're making? - Research out of MIT on the kitchen of the future

A pioneer in yeast genetics whose work paved the way for modern molecular biology as well as antibiotic and vaccine development has been honored for his life's work. - Story on Gerald Fink being awarded the $500,000 Genetics Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation.

"The objective was to gather some of the founders, CEOs, and senior execs from the most successful Massachusetts companies of the past decade, and have them talk about how they grew from start-up to major player." - Photos and audio from the first-ever Momentum Summit, held at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

"We're not just a brain in a jar, our body is fundamentally tied to our understanding of the world." - Story on haptic research by Joshua M. Ackerman, an assistant professor of marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management

“I wouldn’t have known the first thing about doing all of this. The people from the Deshpande Center led me through.” - Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical engineering, about how investors are helping ensure that promising ideas are nurtured and turned into successful start-ups.

Imagine that the same rechargeable battery in your cell phone could power a device that requires 10 times the energy. That possibility may be closer than you think. - Story on battery research out of MIT by Yang Shao-Horn and Paula Hammond

"French should be taught as a foreign language for Haitians, with Creole as the language of instruction." - OP/ED by Michel DeGraff on the language barrier in Haiti

"Mr. Mitchell was one of the world’s most respected theorists about the future of the city and the automobile." - New York Times piece on Bill Mitchell, who passed away Saturday at the age of 65

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that prices of commercial property sold by major institutional investors nationwide fell slightly in the first quarter compared with the last quarter of 2009. - Story on commercial property values and the MIT Center for Real Estate index

"Over and over, kids raised the same three examples of feeling hurt and not wanting to show it when their mom or dad would be on their devices instead of paying attention to them." - Sherry Turkle, a professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, on parents' technological distractions