In the Media

Together, Ford and MIT are embarking on a study of driver workload and to identify new opportunities to use in-vehicle technologies to improve driver safety by lowering stress.

"What’s amazing about this is that he beat out an incumbent. That’s not easy to do. It’s a big deal. Everybody gave him the thumbs up." - Gautam Dutta, executive director of the Asian American Action Fund, on MIT's Leland Cheung, the first Asian-American and first student elected to the Cambridge City Council.

"We have [players] looking at us now that would not have taken us seriously six to seven years ago. We used to call ourselves the best basketball team that no one had heard of.” - MIT men's basketball coach Larry Anderson, on the team's success last season and its 11-0 start to this season.

"It’s like a Broadway play that you’ve practiced and practiced for months, and something always goes wrong." - Peter Belobaba, director of the MIT Global Airline Industry Program, on airline delays from this weekend's storm

It is not easy to reinvent the wheel, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are giving it their best shot. - Story on two powered bicycle-wheel projects taking place at MIT

His speeches and his voluminous writing had a lucidity and bite not usually found in academic technicians. He tried to give his economic pronouncements a “snap at the end,” he said, “like Mark Twain.” - Obituary for Paul Samuelson, MIT professor and Nobel-winning economist, who died on Sunday at age 94.

"I remember school dances that I didn't go to, mid-terms I failed and family occasions that I missed. Only now do I realize how much of my life was mangled and distorted by this illness." - Padma Lakshmi on her battle with endometriosis. The 'Top Chef' host visited MIT Friday to open the new Center for Gynepathology.

With 20/20 hindsight, a few generations worth of experience, and better, faster technology, this time researchers in AI -- an ambiguous field to begin with -- plan to get things right. - Story on MIT's Mind Machine Project, which is re-examining artificial intelligence from the ground up.

"This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform an experiment at a massive scale." - Riley Crane, postdoctoral fellow at MIT, on his team's approach in winning the recent DARPA red balloon challenge.

What would President Obama's pledge to reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 83% by 2050 mean in practice for the U.S. energy infrastructure? - Professor Richard Lester, head of the nuclear science and engineering department at MIT, comments on the implications of these reductions ahead of the President's speech at the Copenhagen climate change summit.

If you want to tout that fake Louis Vuitton Le Radieux handbag as the real deal, you had better look the part, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher. - Story on research by Renee Richardson Gosline, an assistant professor of marketing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

"I like to say that there are no disabled people. Only disabled technology." - Professor Hugh Herr, director of the biomechatronics group at MIT's Media Lab, on his work designing better prosthetic devices.

"I kept saying, 'What 1,000 words am I going to choose that’s going to get across who I am?'" - MIT senior Ugwechi Amadi, on the 1,000-word statement she had to write as part of the Rhodes scholar selection process. Amadi and two other MIT students — Caroline Huang and Steven Mo — won scholarships this year.

"Clearly it's time for a combination of creative thinking and tough-mindedness — and nobody has more of that latter quality than Massachusetts Institute of Technology." - Article on needed budget cuts in New Mexico titled "Could state take cue from MIT cost-cutting?"

"And news flash, it wasn't the most user friendly place." - Rick Borovoy, a visiting scientist at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media, on Boston, and a new signage project to help visitors and residents get around the city.