In the Media

"At the age of 13, a boy living in Sierra Leone created batteries and generators using materials he picked up around the house or from trash bins. Now, he's wowing experts in the U.S."

"What if we could use solar energy when the sun has set, or wind energy when the air is calm? Donald Sadoway is working on a way to make that happen."

"Moreover, these massive open online courses, or MOOCs, harness the power of their huge enrollments to teach in new ways, applying crowd-sourcing technology to discussion forums and grading and enabling professors to use online lectures and reserve on-campus class time for interaction with students."

"Ed Boyden, an engineer turned neuroscientist, makes tools for brain hackers."

"Two Boston-area community colleges will offer an adapted version of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology online course in computer science with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."

"Smart headlights, emergency response systems and reverse-monitoring features rank highest in car technologies that benefit mature drivers according to The Hartford and MIT AgeLab’s Top Technologies for Mature Drivers Research."

"'Investors are still worried by the volatility roller coaster they see in the equity market,' says Andrew Lo, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'Investors, and in particular retirees, feel they have little choice but to go into bonds.'"

"The fast-moving world of online education, where anyone can take classes at a world-famous university, is making a new foray into the community college system, with a personal twist."

"Sasha Costanza-Chock, a professor of civic media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says disaster preparedness is about more than stocking up on bottled water, packaged meals and fresh batteries. It’s also a matter of pooling technical resources to solve the problems that can arise quickly, like how to move supplies to those in need and relay reliable information about shelters and food."

"There is no one thing that can end poverty." -MIT's Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

"The MIT Open Documentary Lab and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam’s project, “Moments of Innovation,” documents the process of documentation."

"Instead of turning away, "in times of shortage, it's just the reverse," said Richard Larson, professor of engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Panicked drivers may decide to go to the back of the line and wait, he said, rather than risk waiting longer later or missing out on a chance at gas entirely, if supplies run out."

"The digital world creates convergence, overlap and blur in previously separate, distinct and crisply defined areas. Simple definitions, such as being inside or outside something, being part of or not part of something else, being for or against just about anything... all of these are suddenly subject to reinterpretation."

"Ramesh Raskar wants to make the invisible visible."

"Joi Ito, 46-year-old director of MIT's Media Lab since last September, has just selected the faculty's newest outpost: the troubled streets of downtown Detroit."