In the Media

"When a woman claiming to be Bill Gates’s assistant started emailing Professor Donald Sadoway to say her boss was keen to meet him, he was immediately suspicious."

"The MIT president, who is leading a non-profit virtual learning initiative, talks about his residence on the campus."

The Boston Globe’s Tracy Jan reports that MIT has been awarded $25 million by the U.S. Agency for International Development to aid in a new effort aimed at using science and technology to assist developing countries.

"The MIT Media Lab offers insight and inspiration to business and technology executives wishing to stay in step with—or ahead of—disruptive technology innovations."

Boston Business Journal reporter Mary Moore writes that the, “Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Thursday that it is expected to receive $25 million from the United States Agency for International Development for a new anti-poverty project.”

Science reporter Erik Stokstad writes about the U.S. Agency for International Development’s announcement that a select group of universities, including MIT, has been awarded grants to create “development labs” aimed at improving health and reducing poverty in developing countries.

"Our ears contain an elaborate system of chambers that convert mechanical energy into an electrochemical signal, much like a battery...Now a new wireless microdevice can actually run on that scant energy."

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said today it will receive $25 million in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development as part of a new five-year project designed to fight poverty by developing and evaluating useful technologies for global communities."

"One of the biggest efforts to rethink the airplane is being conducted by Nasa’s Subsonic Fixed-Wing program, a collaboration between the US aerospace agency and industrial partners including Boeing, GE, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Pratt & Whitney, as well as academic institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"The long summaries increased what is known as the 'service time' for the queue, said Richard Larson, an MIT professor who is a specialist in the science and psychology of waiting in line, known as queueing theory. He estimated that the ballot questions ­accounted for 90 percent of the service time at Massachusetts polls, as most voters know which candidate they are voting for."

"Many have wondered (and theorized) what it would be like to travel at the speed of light, but over at MIT’s Game Lab developers are envisioning what it would be like if light moved at the speed of you."

"The black hole at the centre of our galaxy isn't growing old gracefully."

"A new algorithm developed by an MIT professor and his student can predict, hours in advance, which Twitter topics will be the subject of a sudden explosion in tweets."

"There's a small electrical charge living in your cochlea, and it can power electronics."

"The AgeLab's work is eclectic -- one of Coughlin's research specialties is the driving ability of older people -- tapping fields from engineering to psychology to find insights into ways people can live better as they age."