In the Media

"The MIT aging lab is also testing devices to monitor a patient’s use of medication and movement. These allow caregivers to remotely log on and make sure a patient in the early stages of Alzheimer’s is taking medications and is safe."

"Massachusetts university and hospital officials, determined to prevent erosion of the research and development pillar of the state’s economy, have joined a lobbying slugfest over congressional efforts to slash hundreds of billions from the projected national debt."

"Embodying the everlasting respiration of culture and counterculture, Bang on a Can, the new-music collective founded by composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, has gone from loft-concert outsiders to new-music establishment mainstays."

"A remarkable collection of documents from the 17th and 18th centuries written in Wampanoag — in-cluding the King James Bible — helped Baird and a team of top MIT linguists piece the language back together."

"As if on cue, a blaze of orange shone through the window of 77 Massachusetts Ave. and lit up the long corridor as about 100 spectators oohed and ahhed and snapped photos of the scene."

"The future Russia is a tech powerhouse rivaling the brain trust and talents of Silicon Valley, says the country’s presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich during the APEC Summit in Honolulu this weekend."

"You dress for the job you want, not the job you have. Everyone knows that. But what if your dream position is at Facebook? Do you wear a shapeless hoodie to the interview, the better to resemble Mark Zuckerberg?"

"Led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the summit culminated with the building, in 2008, of the prototype Vision 200, a hybrid fuel-electricity car, in Turin, Italy."

“We’ve not hit any level of equality in the division of labour in the home, so it’s not surprising that we’ve not solved the problem [of the lack of female leadership in law firms].”

"Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun tracking the behavior of prices for goods sold by online retailers on the internet in something called the 'Billion Prices Project.'”

"A Boston company called Greenbean Recycle is trying to make the act of keeping bottles and cans out of the landfill into a fun, competitive and engaging game for students at MIT."

"What use would it be to weigh a single living cell? Microscopic scales that do just that may help doctors to predict how a person's cancer will respond to anti-cancer drugs."

"Mitchel Resnick, a professor of learning research at M.I.T.’s Media Lab who helps run the Scratch project, said that Scratch is effective with children because it fosters collaboration."

"In a way, we’re in the process of telling our future innovation team to get off the playing field. Since U.S. economic growth is predominately based on our ability to innovate, we may be undermining our own future." -MIT's William B. Bonvillian

"Eventually, believable 3-D won’t require specs at all."