In the Media

"The Indian Institutes of Technology have agreed to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare Consortium, enabling anyone to access online the course content of the elite engineering schools, reports The Times of India."

"They’ve created a suit called AGNES—short for “Age Gain Now Empathy System” -- that simulates the trials and tribulations that come with your average 70-year-old body, by using various braces, bands, and other tricks to limit wearers' mobility, and give them a glimpse of senior citizen discomfort."

"This May, the biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, whose career has mirrored the growth and diversity of molecular genetics, will retire from laboratory research and from most public speaking on women and science."

"According to Christopher Knittel, a professor of applied economics at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, if weight, horsepower and torque were held to their 1980 levels, and efficiency-boosting technologies continued to be honed — fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks would have increased by almost 60 percent from 1980 to 2006, from a present average of 23 miles per gallon across the fleet to approximately 37 m.p.g"

"You’ve heard of the fat suit and the pregnancy suit; now meet AGNES — the old person suit."

"The consequences of how we fight wars reveals a great deal about how and why others fight us."

"Just making the coursework available for free, of course, doesn’t make people use it, no matter how good it is. MITx adds the incentive of an “official certificate of completion” for each class and, according to my Forbes.com colleague James Marshall Crotty, a 'greater interactive experience.…'"

"We don't actually know why the near side and far side are different." -mission principal scientist Maria Zuber of MIT

"In the annals of academic rivalries, perhaps none is fiercer than the crosstown one between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"As founding director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T., he heads a biology empire and raises money from billionaires. He also teaches freshman biology (a course he never took) at M.I.T., advises President Obama on science and runs a lab."

"A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created an 'almost self-balancing' electric unicycle which he uses to zip around the MIT campus."

"In the long and colorful history of vending machines, they have dispensed cigarettes and chewing gum, ice cream and lottery tickets, sandwiches and iPods. But bike helmets?"

"...the newly announced MITx initiative for online learning should be a boon not just for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is sponsoring it, but potentially for a region whose economic well-being depends on the adaptability of its universities."

"As they describe in Nanoscale Research Letters, they have invented a way of concentrating the energy in the sun’s rays without the need for mirrors. It is, quite literally, a suntrap."

"As America's baby boomers grow older and creakier, some companies are trying to keep those with hard-to-replace skills fit enough to remain on the job."