In the Media

"The next round of reductions will require more serious action, probably jettisoning 15 percent of the force — and more if rising personnel costs are not brought under control." -MIT's Cindy Williams

"The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. I say this for two main reasons."

"Restoring sight to the blind has proved particularly challenging for scientists, but a new technology combining an eye implant and video-camera-enabled glasses may soon be available in the U.S."

"A study published in Businessweek calculated the return on investment for hundreds of colleges and universities in the country, and found that MIT, Harvard University, and Babson College were among the schools considered the best investment."

"The best hope for achieving the transition to a low-carbon economy is through innovation to reduce the costs of new energy technologies."

"MOOCs are vastly extending the reach of professors at some of the world’s best universities, particularly at Stanford, Harvard, M.I.T., Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Duke."

"It may soon be possible to control heat flows with great precision."

"Forget the endless debates about the euro or government debts. What does the future hold?"

"He wanted to write a symphony not for the city of Toronto but with the city of Toronto, a piece of music that would ultimately be about Toronto in a way that was granular, participatory, and reflective of an urban landscape in all of its component parts."

"Nothing has more potential to unlock a billion more brains to solve the world’s biggest problems. And nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity."

"Scientists are coaxing the bacteria in soil to start producing a type of fuel that can go right into our cars with no modification."

"When Kristin Forbes sought tenure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology early last decade, some colleagues said her research focus on financial contagion led to a dead end. Her reaction: Full speed ahead."

"More than any other American conflict, the Vietnam War for years has been used as a cautionary tale of imperial overreach and excessive ideological zeal, though many details of the war are fading."

"Will the rise of higher education in the US and elsewhere be curtailed by the expansion of Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs) that allow people to study digitally rather than attend lectures and classes?"

"Missy Cummings shares the many applications of drones."