In the Media

"MIT’s Sloan Management Review suggested on the basis of this study that partial benefits might accrue to faking optimism. Appearing to be optimistic even when you are not might get you some of the deep optimism advantage." - (registration required to view)

"It's an unhealthy dynamic, where just because you're admitted to a certain set of schools, companies come to find you," Wilbur says. "This isn't the way the world works."

In an echo of Mr. Spence, Mr. Autor finds that technology has had a "polarizing" impact on the U.S. workforce -- it has made people at the top more productive and better paid and hasn't had much effect on the "hands-on" jobs at the bottom of the labor force. But opportunities and salaries in the middle have been hollowed out.

“They found a design with rear-wheel steering that can be ridden and is self-stable,” says David Gordon Wilson, a retired MIT professor who designed the modern recumbent bicycle in the early 1970s. “That’s quite amazing.” - Story about a paper on the physics of bicycling, co-authored by MIT alumnus Jim Papadopoulos ‘79.

"In the latest work, published today in Science, Geim and an international team of colleagues show that graphene could be used to make a new generation of so-called 'spintronic' devices."

"Director Adam Zahler’s imaginative vision for the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT and Underground Railway Theater’s current production emphasizes that notion with a set that suggests the audience’s perspective is inside Turing’s mind, with the outside world revolving all around him."

"In a speech at an MIT symposium, Berners-Lee compared access to the Web with access to water."

"Here (at MIT) concrete is treated with an admiration more often reserved for diamonds or gold, especially by Franz-Josef Ulm, one of the top professors in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering."

"A co-production of Underground Railway Theater and Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, 'Breaking the Code' is directed by Adam Zahler and boasts the finest ensemble acting of any local company this season."

"When children who were blind from birth were able to see for the first time, they weren't immediately able to make the connection between what they were seeing and what they were feeling with their hands, a new study reveals."

"MIT airline safety expert Arnold Barnett did a study on aviation safety and found that the chance of dying on a scheduled flight, from propeller planes to jetliners, in the United States is 1 in 14 million."

"Maybe it’s no surprise that, of all institutions, MIT would take clear, concrete steps to bring more women onto campus."

"A long time ago, in a university not far away, this MIT physicist hatched a plan for a bold experiment in space. Now, $1.5 billion and nearly two decades later, it’s finally time for one last adventure: Unlocking the deepest mysteries of the universe."

"In search of the elusive answer, Held teamed up with MIT colleague Pawan Sinha, who founded an organization in 2003 to help blind children in India. Called Project Prakash, after the Sanskrit word for 'light,' the group collaborates with Indian surgeons who operate to restore sight in children who've been blind from cataracts or other curable causes."

"Five children in India have helped to answer a question posed in 1688 by Irish philosopher William Molyneux: can a blind person who then gains their vision recognise by sight an object they previously knew only by touch?"