In the Media

"Because of the solidity of the earth’s crust on the eastern seaboard - unlike California, where there are networks of active faults - earthquakes tend to be felt over longer distances here, according to Thomas Herring, a geophysics professor at MIT."

"Instead, students sit down at a table, as they otherwise would in a university dining hall, except the person sitting across from them would be across the country."

"Although earthquakes are less frequent in the central and eastern U.S. than in the west, they’re typically felt over a broader area..."

"In a Massachusetts Institute of Technology cafeteria, down the hall from an early radar dish, is the 'wormhole,’ an oddly-shaped plexiglass dome hovering over a video screen."

"It's the first time a single drug has been shown to work against a range of viruses, from those that cause seasonal sniffles to more fatal diseases."

"Imagine yourself in a crowded lecture hall, utterly confused by the lesson. Normally, this situation offers two choices: You are baffled for the entire class, or you raise your hand and halt the entire lecture because you didn’t get it."

"The digital future, it seems, will be less a takeover of the physical world than a marriage with it. 'This bits-atoms dichotomy is becoming less and less true,' said Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the M.I.T. Center for Digital Business."

"I see many opportunities in countries like India and China that are creating a lot of action and excitement..." - CSAIL's Anant Agarwal

"The idea is to identify before the event whether the brain is prepared to be a learner." -John Gabrieli

"...the same kind of computer modeling that predicts whether car components can hold their own in a crash could also forecast whether pipes will fracture at offshore drilling sites."

"Jose Gomez-Marquez is like the MacGyver of medical devices, hacking toys and turning them into gadgets that can be used to diagnose conditions such as diabetes and dengue fever."

"When prospective college students begin looking for their future homes, one statistic they may want to evaluate is a school's freshman retention rate."

"App Inventor will live on as part of a new MIT Center for Mobile Learning, which will be housed at the famed MIT Media Lab and run by App Inventor creator Hal Abelson, along with fellow MIT professors Eric Klopfer and Mitchel Resnick (both of whom were also instrumental in the creation of the project)."

"Several projects coordinated by MIT's Senseable City lab have revealed the powerful urban insights that can occur when people are linked via networks of sensors."

"If the theory holds up, it would mean that oxygen was present on Earth 300 million years before seeping in the atmosphere, creating ripe conditions for the development of life-nurturing marine environments."