In the Media

"When unexpected challenges arise, what ideas are acceptably crazy? Which ideas are too crazy? Which ideas are so crazy that no one looks at or listens to their champions quite the same way ever again?" -MIT's Michael Schrage

"The Netra clips to a phone and users tap buttons on the touchscreen display until images seen in the Netra are aligned. The device can measure for nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism."

"While on sabbatical from RMIT University in Melbourne, Associate Professor Dr Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, joined MIT Associate Professor Michael Strano’s nanotechnology research group and together accidentally discovered a new way to generate power."

"But far from squelching demand for the most expensive pieces, high prices have only made gold more alluring, retailers say."

"Education is the next part of the economy that's going to be disrupted in massive ways."

"The personal archive of the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky will go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, the university announced today."

"Tim Berners-Lee, who teaches at MIT and is considered one of the fathers of the Web, testified Tuesday about the early days of the web, as part of a case brought by a patent-licensing company called Eolas, and in which Google, Amazon and Yahoo are defendants, according to Wired."

"The New Scientist reports that as part of a program by DARPA, the military research group, scientists from MIT have found a way to control the movements of 'cyborg' moths."

"It is a constant fight during the winter months to prevent warm air from seeping from our homes, but new high definition infrared thermal images are making it easier to detect where the leaks are."

"Some 600,000 skilled manufacturing positions are unfilled in the United States, according to a survey by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute."

"MIT’s future students receive their acceptance letters in shimmering silver cardboard tubes. It’s more of a legacy item – the mailing used to contain a poster – but now it’s simply a postmarked reminder of the school’s uniqueness. And to highlight that trait this year, the MIT admissions staff put a note into each accepted student’s tube asking him or her to 'hack' the tube."

"MIT has recreated 'Spacewar!' — one of the world’s first computer games — to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the influential precursor to today’s video games."

"Half-moth, half machine, a new generation of remote-controlled insects could one day be used as spies."

"'How do fads spread through a community?' asks Alex Pentland, director of MIT's Human Dynamics Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

"The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life."