In the Media

"'A large part of this is due to domestic political considerations,' said Richard Samuels, a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia."

"Monotype and MIT AgeLab Study Links Type Style with Reduced Driver Distraction Risk." (Video)

"It’s the latest work from the lab of MIT mechanical engineer Pedro Reis, whose denizens have looked at such colorful topics as how cats lap up water, scratching and fracturing in everything from paraffin wax to steel, and (my favorite) the physics of curly hair."

"As personal electronic devices have proliferated in cars, and with the corresponding increase in crashes resulting from motorists trying to drive while using those gadgets, automakers have touted voice control as the solution that will permit drivers to safely text, tweet and update their Facebook pages to inform the world of the amazing fact that they are in the act of driving to work."

"Twitter Inc. cofounder Jack Dorsey came to Cambridge Monday on a recruitment drive. He is looking to lure a few Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates back to California to help him quickly grow his latest innovation: a mobile payments company called Square Inc."

"Text size and type font used in dashboard displays may be overlooked culprits in distracted driving."

"A wave of new mirrors are relying not on hocus-pocus but on sensors, cameras, and flat-panel displays to transform the time-tested looking glass."

"Each year, around this time, we engage in the same conversation about kids, technology and education."

"In the partisan controversies over changes in voter eligibility and voter ID requirements, the growth of mail voting and no-excuse absentee voting have received little attention."

"Researchers at the MIT AgeLab and typeface design company Monotype Imaging say in a paper published today that the typeface auto makers use to display information on navigation screens in cars can make a difference in how long drivers have to take their eyes off the road."

"So-called 'super-Earth' alien worlds may bear little resemblance to our own home planet and thus could be less likely to support life than previously believed, a new study suggests."

"A presidential advisory panel on Tuesday recommended new steps to speed the development of life-saving medicines, including the creation of a new industry-academic collaboration to identify and resolve bottlenecks in the scientific pipeline."

"MIT computer scientists have published a paper detailing how they created a prototype Kinect-style sensor system that picks up visual data and translates it into a map, building an image of the world around a wearer instantaneously."

"The tech from mood rings and 'hypercolor' T-shirts is now in sunglass lenses, paints, threads, and even medicines."

"The first human moving through a dangerous area can generate annotated digital maps in realtime, imparting critical information to the next wave of responders."