In the Media

"...a study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mass. General, and Boston University, has taken a systematic approach to understand the changes in brain activity that occur as a patient goes under with an anesthesia drug."

"One key purpose of the new fund, Ito explained to me recently, will be to encourage students to finish their degrees before they start companies."

"I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on 'Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education'..." - Tom Friedman Column, New York Times

"We are at the beginning of a technology-led revolution in pedagogy: Our innovation is not the blackboard, but instead an evolving suite of tools that allows interactive learning online." — Boston Globe Op/Ed co-authored by MIT President L. Rafael Reif and Harvard President Drew Faust

"Ernest J. Moniz, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Initiative, is the president’s choice to take over for Steven Chu at the Energy Department."

"The more Miyagawa studied the distinction between lexical structure and expression structure, 'the more I started to think, "Gee, these two systems are really fundamentally different," ' he says. 'They almost seem like two different systems that just happen to be put together,' perhaps through evolution."

“Once we amplify these small motions, there’s like a whole new world you can look at,” he said.

"To slash America’s R&D capability in the name of fiscal responsibility would be akin to seeking greater efficiency for an aircraft by jettisoning the engines." - An op/ed co-authored by MIT President L. Rafael Reif and former Intel chief executive and chairman Craig Barrett

"The Tongueduino is the brainchild of MIT Media Lab’s Gershon Dublon."

"A new MIT report urges a fresh commitment to manufacturing in the U.S. to spur innovation and growth and stem the flow of jobs to other countries."

"President Obama’s call for a renewed emphasis on 'affordability and value' in assessing colleges and universities pairs those two terms in a way that simultaneously highlights their difference and the degree to which they have become interchangeable in much of the current discourse about higher education."

"Two major providers of free online higher education are expanding the ranks of universities that contribute courses to their Web sites, adding many schools from outside the United States."

"The angst and ire of teenagers is finding new, sometimes dangerous expression online—precipitating threats, fights, and a scourge of harrassment that parents and schools feel powerless to stop."

"How can a nonprofit organization that gives away courses bring in enough revenue to at least cover its costs?"

"As part of its project on the cities of the future, the BBC asked a series of experts to explain their vision of where they would like to live in the future."