In the Media

"Welcome to Amphibious Achievement, an MIT program that blends swimming and rowing with a rigorous academic component that promotes an environment of achievement for inner-city Boston high school students."

"It’s easy to draw a cartoon of a car that folds into a suitcase, but harder when having to conform to the actual laws of physics."

"Any material that has even the tiniest bit of conductive capability can be a touch sensor with the Makey Makey."

"We built our first sweatband sensor to get emotional information from autistic children outside the lab. But then one of my undergrad researchers asked if he could borrow a wristband for his little brother who had autism." -MIT's Rosalind Picard

"After all, you can’t wrestle an octopus: There’s so much information (and misinformation) about colleges out there that nobody could ever keep up with it all."

"The grant is focused on an effort to help colleges serving low-income students teach an official course based around MITx materials, using an approach called the 'flipped classroom.'"

"America has a wealth of natural gas in the ground. So, how do we get it into our cars?"

"Stephen E. Carson, external-relations director at MIT OpenCourseWare, the free online publication of the university's lectures and other course materials, says peer learning is a natural extension of the first wave of open-course initiatives, which have focused on getting content out to large audiences at little or no cost."

"One of my themes of these last almost eight years has been taking the basket off the lamp and letting our beacon of inspiration shine more brightly." — Susan Hockfield

"Specifically, a team of MIT researchers led by Professor Alexander 'Sandy' Pentland discovered that call center workers who took the time to converse with their co-workers, instead of just grinding away, got through calls faster, felt less tension and earned the same approval ratings as their peers who didn’t schmooze at the office."

"The winners of the Knight News Challenge: Networks were revealed Monday at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The challenge is one of three being held by the foundation this year, each designed to promote innovations in the dissemination of news and information."

"For centuries, humans have used the power of their brains to solve complex mysteries, create radical new inventions, and devise wondrous works of art. But now, scientists have developed a technology that enables us to use our brains to actually harvest electrical power."

"What does your technology want from you?"

"The next step is urbanites using technology to help run their cities."

"(MIT's Eric) Alm is among a small but growing cadre of scientists who are using themselves as research subjects. They are taking advantage of faster and cheaper technologies, ranging from custom apps on smartphones to gene sequencing, in order to monitor aspects of their behavior and biology in unprecedented detail."