In the Media

"But look beyond that to something really significant: Siri, the personal assistant application that Apple also showed off. Siri matters for two reasons. First, it represents the future of Apple as a business. Second, Siri potentially is the future of what is now called search."

"A growing number of U.S. and U.K. business schools are putting a new twist on their international connections."

"Have I missed something? What's a 'smoot?'"

"Apple's latest iPhone announcement didn't have any one huge feature to draw all the attention. But two new features caught our eye: promises of seven times faster speeds and a new artificial intelligence program."

"With or without the enormous Typhoons, each of which displaces 34,000 tons while submerged, Russia's undersea fleet is all but certain to decline – and that has strategic implications for Moscow and Washington."

"Three American astrophysicists were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for showing that the universe is flying apart at an ever-accelerating pace, a discovery that overturned decades of assumptions in the field of cosmology."

"Experimenting with new ways to convey climate findings, and new ways to foster constructive public discourse on issues with this level of complexity and scope, is important."

"When people think and write about what leads to economic success, they too often focus only on the most visible, highly paid players." -MIT's Paul Osterman

"The field of urban design has long been more of a craft than a science, but researchers are developing new ways to use large datasets and quantitative tools, including some that analyze social networks, to better understand cities."

"This shift to more energy intensive agriculture implies a series of tradeoffs which are best characterized as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly."

"The initial participants are usually good dancers, but those who join in tend to be more awkward, occasionally leaning the wrong way, or flailing their hands a bit behind the beat."

"There are many ways the microenvironment could drive cancer, says researcher Robert Weinberg, of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and a biology professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"In July, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Princeton team won an award from the Association for Computing Machinery for a system of dashboard-mounted smartphones that allows users to collect information about traffic signals and slow down accordingly."

"The thumb-size black strip looks like a thin magnet. But in reality, it is an artificial leaf, made of silicon and capable of using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen that can be fed into fuel cells to make power."

"Within your major you'll be well known to your professors and TAs in and out of the classroom. It's a great education and definitely prepares you for either a job or continuing higher education." -MIT sophomore Lisa