In the Media

"'People think they have this enormous capacity to juggle multiple balls in the air,' says Earl Miller, a professor at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. 'They actually can only juggle very few.'"

"Gordan Moore had his own law for chips, and some in the solar sector talk about a Swanson’s Law for the dropping cost of solar, but folks at MIT will use close to $500K to study the tech evolution process of solar and to create an overarching theory."

"Toledano, a 36-year-old master’s degree candidate at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., has built an Android app, Air Mobs, which—were it ever released—would allow you to sell wireless bandwidth to a stranger near you in return for credits allowing you to buy bandwidth from another stranger in the future."

"Using a pixel-magnifying algorithm, a team from MIT and Quanta Research Cambridge demonstrates how amplified video can be used to determine such things as heart rate...from afar."

"The founders of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), a graduate-only university founded in 2011 outside Moscow, are collaborating with faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a university that embodies many of the principles hottest in higher education today: interdisciplinarity, problem-based learning, research for innovation and entrepreneurship, and internationalization."

"Among new initiatives, the mayor proposed using 1 million square feet of city-owned property to develop affordable housing. He announced a partnership with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to bring cutting-edge online learning to Boston's community centers."

"A concept promulgated by the right — the notion of the hidden prosperity of the poor — underpins the conservative take on the ongoing debate over rising inequality."

"Which university is top-rated for engineering? Opinions differ, of course. But an annual ranking of 200 universities around the globe indicates that 13 of the top 15 universities for engineering are right here in the U.S."

"'Everybody is in favor of safeguards,' said Donald R. Sadoway, a professor of material chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'And the batteries could be fine as manufactured, and tested and perform in excess of specifications.'"

"The issue with driverless cars, says Bryan Reimer, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AgeLab, isn’t the machines. It’s us."

"You planned, saved, invested and even survived the economic downturn — but have you planned how you will get around in retirement?"

"The City of Boston plans to launch a partnership with the two institutions through the experimental online initiative edX, which offers free courses to anyone with Internet access."

"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."