In the Media

"Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “Alone Together,” says that as technology becomes ever more pervasive, our relationship to it becomes more intimate, granting it the power to influence decisions, moods and emotions."

"We have to think about the process by which something, an idea, develops scientific consensus and a second process by which is developed a social and political consensus."

The research was designed to "explore the physical boundaries of liquidity" by devising a new way to buy and sell stocks, in turnaround times that were considered impossible due to light-propagation delays, Wissner-Gross told CNBC.com.

“The great thing about college radio is, you never quite know what you’re going to get," Oedipus says. “You can experiment on college radio, you can try different things, you can be raw. And there’s something very human about that.”

"The first spoken 'I love you' is a relationship milestone. Josh Ackerman, a psychologist who teaches at MIT, set out to study these early declarations of devotion."

"Lead author of the paper, Monte Winslow, of the David H Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, said understanding the role of the gene may help scientists develop new drugs."

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has alliances with half a dozen schools, recently teamed up with Sabanci School of Management in Turkey."

"The pieces struck me a “quick hit” commentary on our increasing dependence on technology and social media — something which periodically causes us societal anxiety, addressed recently by MIT technologist Sherry Turkle in her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other."

"Charles W. Forsberg, the executive director of M.I.T.’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project, notes that if you simply put a teacup of water in a microwave oven, some of the water molecules will come apart. But there are reasons, he and others say, that Fukushima is particularly vulnerable."

The MIT Dome dressed up as R2D2 from Star Wars. A mock moon lander on top of the dome. Even better, an MIT police car on top of the dome.

"The accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is still far from resolved."

"Cutting research funding to narrow the budget deficit would hurt innovation now and for decades to come, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield said to venture capitalists Thursday."

"Neri Oxman, an architect and professor at the MIT Media Lab, is working on one such set of research — using 3-D printing technology for buildings."

Ernest Moniz, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of MIT’s Energy Initiative, gave four “very sure bets” about the effects of events at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex.

"French economist Esther Duflo thinks poverty can be alleviated or even eradicated with the right policies. All it takes is for politicians to 'translate research into action,' implementing programmes that have been shown to work."