In the Media

"The president's tone was a marked departure from his usual, cool-headed demeanor. He sounded combative, and people noticed."

"At Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale’s Laboratory of Intelligence Systems in Lausanne, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven and Dario Floreano have found a way to make small, fixed-wing machines fly together, migrate and avoid crashing."

"Of course, MIT has another monster jewel: its Media Lab."

"President Obama today recognized 94 researchers with the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers."

"Abalone shells have inspired Professor Belcher's work for more than two decades and brought her to the pinnacle of science. And they have implications for the future of manufacturing, green energy, medicine and science - just for starters."

"Even a cancer gene may have a good side. A study of people with African ancestry has revealed that a gene associated with cancer shows a pattern of variability that suggests it benefits carriers."

“'Social media is filling the gap left by the press,' said Andrés Monroy-Hernández, a doctoral candidate from Mexico at the M.I.T. Media Lab. 'In different regions of Mexico, both the state and the press are weak, while organized crime is becoming stronger and, in some places, replacing the state.'”

"MIT researchers have found a way to utilize charcoal to store hydrogen at a low pressure and at room temperature."

“You hang out with a really smart crowd of people ... and that will help you do really smart, great things...Bounce your ideas off people and seek mentors, because there are a lot of things that are unknown. You may be good as an engineer, but you might not know how to hire.” -Naveen Selvadurai, founder of Foursquare, at MIT's Startup Bootcamp

"The world of 'big data' is on fire."

"Proteins that scientists once thought might hold the key to extending life in humans didn't seem to affect how long worms or fruit flies survive in a new study."

"The Boston Business Business Journal announced its first Power 50, a list of the region's most influential businesspeople in 2011."

"As IO9 reports, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems are working on algorithms to smooth out machines’ rigid movements."

"Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor of management at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, described Facebook as 'sort of a walled garden' that, for better or worse, can increasingly filter every other activity on the Internet."

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was selected to receive the lion’s share of $17.7 million in U.S. Department of Energy funds aimed at strengthening nuclear research projects at universities and colleges."