In the Media

"How do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company? Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how."

"Paul Osterman, an MIT professor who studies part-time and low-wage work, notes that Walmart comes out of the rural south, infertile ground for unionising, but is trying to move into more heavily unionised cities, particularly in the north-east."

"Adam Shaw checks out the Q Sensor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a wireless sensor, which measures electricity conducted through the skin."

"Since 2003, its researchers have used randomized trials to figure out which interventions help the poor the most."

"How hard does star US basketball player Kobe Bryant dunk? Add aerospace tech to a basketball net and you can find out, right down to the joule."

"For universities, reduced funding means taking on fewer graduate students and postdocs, closing the pipeline to a generation of scientists, said Claude Canizares, vice president for research at MIT, which gets much of its research funding from the Pentagon."

"Sangeeta Bhatia, a biomedical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is also taking inspiration from information technology and other fields. She is emulating natural systems and robotics to make smart cocktails of cancer therapeutics that communicate with each other to 'swarm' to tumours."

"Graduate students at MIT first started playing with this idea in the late 1980s. That dream has been tinkered with steadily over the last two decades until we’ve reached a tipping point: today, 3D printers for the home are available."

"A piece of artwork headed into space this week may be on display for the next few billion years."

"'The fact that Wal-Mart is responding to this shows that they share the perception that this is not good for them,' said Paul Osterman, professor of human resources and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone."

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, in their Sustainability Initiative, has measured sustainability innovation by interviewing global executives for the past three years."

"In 2005, Deb Roy, director of the Cognitive Machines group at MIT's Media Lab, installed 11 cameras and 14 microphones in his Boston home to study how his newborn son learned language. The result was more than 240,000 hours of multitrack audio and video that proved incredibly hard to decode."

"Adam Smith and Karl Marx were wrong -- or at least, they had only half the story. The daily ebb and flow of our societies is the sum of billions of individual exchanges: people trading information, money, goods or just gossip." -MIT's Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

"The edX project, set up by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced a plan to 'bring a new teaching model to the classroom'."

"Seriously, stop whatever you're doing this instant and watch the song you know so well get its tempo set to the beat of a heart in the above experiment."