In the Media

"The work begun by (MIT's Mark) Bear more than a decade ago has helped to change the approach to autism research."

"Intel will spend $12.5 million over the next five years to put some of its researchers in Cambridge alongside brains from MIT. And it’s not just the California chip-maker: AIG, Massachusetts’ own EMC, Thomson Reuters and SAP are all chipping in to partner with MIT."

"Seven scientists whose work spanned the outer reaches of the solar system and penetrated the inner workings of brain circuits and nanotubes were named winners of the 2012 Kavli Prizes on Thursday." - Multiple members of the MIT community were awarded Kavli Prizes.

"Storing and dealing with data has always been an issue in the age of computing. But in the modern world, with its booming online traffic and transactions and digital sensors in more and more devices, data is ballooning, with gigabytes now measured in the trillions each year. MIT President Susan Hockfield sees opportunity in that sea of ones and zeros."

"Scientists at MIT have developed the prototype of a needle-less injection mechanism. Ian Hunter and Cathy Hogan in MIT’s Bioinstrumentation Lab described the new technology in a YouTube video."

"Ethan Zuckerman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology notes in The Wilson Quarterly that 95 percent of news consumed by American Internet users is published within the United States, and people in many other countries consume even less foreign news than we do."

"'The fox is guarding the henhouse,' says former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson of Jamie Dimon's position on the New York Fed's board of directors. And more than a few political and economic heavyweights agree with him."

"Sherry Turkle, the MIT researcher who has studied the effects of technology on human interaction for years, makes a similar point. She says that the obsession with digital 'connection' (manifested by everything from texting at the dinner table to constantly updating our Facebook statuses) has taken away from real-world conversations and engagements."

"Jerry Hausman, an M.I.T. economics professor who studied Michael Jordan's impact on the NBA, said that even if there was no draft and players entered the league only through free agency, the salary cap (and the finite number of shots a team can take in a game) would still prevent teams from 'stacking' superstars and creating dynasties."

"A pair of scientists shared the 2012 Shaw Prize in astronomy for their groundbreaking research on the early stages of planet formation."

"Two new initiatives based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could help make Massachusetts a global center for the emerging field of 'big data' — the ability to quickly dissect and understand floods of digital information."

"David Jewitt, at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jane Luu, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US, share the astronomy prize for their 'discovery and characterization of trans-Neptunian bodies' — objects in the outer reaches of the Solar System, such as the chilly and mysterious Quaoar."

"'We finally have the tools to watch how bacteria behave in the ocean, which still kind of blows my mind,' said Melissa Garren, a marine microbiologist at MIT."

"MIT recently resurrected App Inventor and expanded it with particular attention to educational use, and the new hub for the tool includes the beginnings of a section of resources aimed at teachers."

"Big data processing and storage has the potential to add an estimated 15,000 jobs to the local economy over the next few years, which is why this new initiative MIT has unveiled, called bigdata@CSAIL, is so important."