In the Media

"Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, a professor of physics and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walks with a very large carbon footprint, and in her case it’s a good thing."

"The MIT Media Lab provided a star turn in Aspen on Sunday morning, as researchers revealed some of the ideas and devices that could soon become part of everyday life."

"The truth be told, we're not making a list. We're keeping one. A list of amazing people whose passion and work influence our future. They are agents of change, innovators. And in this special episode, we introduce you to ten you really should know."

"'The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer,' said Erik Brynjolfsson, an economics professor at M.I.T. and co-author of Race Against the Machine, a book about how automation is changing the job market."

"If the LHC discovers the Higgs boson or other theoretical particles, their existence could help explain inflation, one of the universe's great mysteries."

"Researchers are trying to harness glucose—the body’s own fuel—to power implantable gadgets such as pacemakers."

"Congratulations to the tens of millions of uninsured Americans, the tens of millions more who face the risk of becoming uninsured, and the hundreds of millions who will ultimately benefit from a less expensive and higher quality health care system." -MIT's Jonathan Gruber

"Rotating leadership may be part of the secret sauce that allows organizations like Apple to release breakthrough products and achieve a competitive advantage." -MIT's Jason Davis

"As he challenges Barack Obama for the presidency, Mitt Romney may be inclined to leave the issue of income inequality to his opponent. That would be a mistake."

"Last month's fly-by of Earth by asteroid 2012 KT42 was the sixth-closest asteroid encounter on record. It whizzed by inside the orbital distance of Earth geosynchronous satellites."

"As in previous years, MIT would announce its admissions decisions on 3/14, or 'Pi Day,' but this year they would also acknowledge adherents of tau by sending out their decisions at 6:28, or 'Tau Time.'"

"Justin Rowlatt asks Anant Agarwal, who is the director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and runs one of the courses, why these two great universities have decided to give away their most valuable asset for free."

"'I hate this calorie is a calorie message,' (MIT's Stephanie) Seneff said in a telephone interview."

"While the decision keeps most of the law intact, what does it mean politically? And how will the characterization of the mandate as a tax play among supporters and opponents of the legislation?" -MIT's Andrea Louise Campbell

"Bloomberg's Matt Miller takes a look inside the computer science and artificial intelligence lab at MIT, where research into changing interaction between robots and humans is expanding the capabilities and usefulness of robots in everyday life."