In the Media

"Ladies from 10 college rugby teams scrummed in style yesterday, competing in MIT’s fifth annual Prom Dress Rugby Tournament."

"Drivers today are similarly attached to their cellphones and in-car technology. But unlike the drivers of the 1930s, they're conflicted over efforts to regulate them."

"In the last few years, we have gone from a world that was connected to a world that is now hyperconnected."

"The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing they way people work together."

"Residents of an MIT dorm dropped an upright piano from their roof Thursday to celebrate the last day students can drop classes without having them appear on their college transcript."

"A simple, unobtrusive sensor ‘could gauge the severity of epileptic seizures’, reports Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) in this week’s issue of Neurology."

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Amy Finkelstein won the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal."

"If a smartphone or tablet with glass that’s glare-free, repels liquids and is self-cleaning sounds appealing, you might want to start following MIT’s research."

"The question is which dominates: The desire to keep more of the money you make or the desire to have more money in total?"

"The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the state’s largest insurer, hired MIT economist Jonathan Gruber to analyze the savings that would accrue to those who pay health insurance premiums, if the state successfully implements cost controls."

"There are more ways than ever to communicate with people, yet it sometimes seems like it is more difficult to connect — and stay connected — with anyone."

"MIT researchers have done it again. They’ve invented a new form of glass that resists glare and fog, repelling water into tiny beads. What’s more, it’s apparently 'self cleaning.'”

"A new type of nano-structured glass can bounce water and dirt off its surface, cleaning itself and preventing fogging, according to MIT researchers. It eliminates glare, too, allowing light to penetrate with pure clarity."

"Since trust and cooperation are so essential to the smooth working of human society, it makes sense that people would have learned over eons both to send signals of trustworthiness and to interpret signs of malicious intent."

"Researchers, led by Katharina Ribbeck, MIT professor of biological engineering, added to the growing body of evidence that mucins (proteins abundant in mucus) are perhaps the magic virus-fighting ingredient."