In the Media

"The task of making a robot move more naturally may have scared away others in the past, but researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) have attacked the dilemma head on."

"As the presidential candidates grip and grin their way across the early primary states, many voters are tuning in online to get the latest information on their policies and plans. But sifting through the muck of rumor, fact and fiction online isn't easy, so MIT grad student Dan Schultz came up with an idea to help: 'Truth Goggles.'"

"Teams are given a kit of biological parts from the registry of standard biological parts, and they use these precursors along with new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells."

"Twenty-one minutes later, with mousetraps sprung, dominoes tumbled, and rockets shot high into the air at stations set up around the outer edge of a gymnasium, 14 ostrich feathers inscribed with the lines of a sonnet drifted into the waiting hands of volunteers."

"Some economists believe that today's grinding unemployment and slow growth are masking the transition to a vibrant digital economy."

"Inspired by the way trees spread their leaves to capture sunlight, MIT Engineering Professor Jeffery Grossman wondered how efficient a three-dimensional shape covered in solar cells could be."

"Despite seemingly endless financial turmoil in Europe and gridlock in Washington, venture investors and entrepreneurs found reason to be optimistic Friday at MIT’s annual venture capital conference."

"MIT’s Sloan School of Management recently submitted employment figures for its 2011 MBA class."

"One of the best moments at Techonomy this year was the debate between George Mason economist, Tyler Cowen, and MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson."

"Researchers have now discovered a gene that helps some worms to stay away from bacteria that might be bad for their health."

"Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer breaks ground Monday on a new Kendall Square research center."

"Today’s robots move about as fast as your grandma’s morning mall-walking group. Tomorrow’s robots will move as fast as Usain Bolt — all thanks to limbs modeled on ostrich legs."

"Research carried out by MIT and the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) is delivering to the DoD a robotic biped that will run faster than Usain Bolt--perhaps as fast as 50 miles an hour eventually. Presenting DARPA’s robo-ostrich."

"A few of these conversations are more musical than the rest, including the following tidbits presented here this week on the latest research on music and the brain."

"A research group at MIT has announced that they’ve developed a chip that mimics the synapse between neurons in the human brain."