In the Media

“Despite having a plethora of wireless technologies built-in — Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, etc. — there's no simple way to transfer "clippings" of data from one device to another. But a new research project at MIT called Sparsh is aiming to fix that oversight.”

“The keys to revitalizing East Boston’s business district may lie in building bridges among its ethnically and linguistically diverse populations and finding solutions to space issues in this dense urban area.”

“The German government’s official spokesman found himself forced to defend his decision to announce official government business via Twitter.”

“The recent growth, which MIT pursued even through the recession, has injected millions of dollars into the city, augmented the university’s involvement in the life sciences, and remade once-gritty neighborhoods into one of the prime biotechnology and research centers in the country.”

"For all its computer-generated theatrical dazzle – created by Machover's Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab -- it is at heart a poignant family drama, about how we connect, and how the choices we make in life impact on those we care about and who care about us."

"The fact is that, since its founding in 1971, Southwest has performed 16 million flights without a single passenger fatality." - Opinion piece by Arnold Barnett, George Eastman professor of management science

"Using more than two miles of toilet tissue and one infinite corridor at MIT, a group from St. Mark's School claim to have wiped out the world record for folding paper Sunday."

"So far no country has reached a conclusion on the safety requirements for nuclear plants following the Fukushima accident, according to Mujid S. Kazimi, director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"The user touches a data item they wish to copy from a device, conceptually saving it in the user's body ... Next, the user touches the other device to which they want to paste the saved content."

“In 2001, Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester, business professors at MIT, conducted a real life auction for tickets to a Boston Celtics game. Half the participants in the auction were informed that they had to pay with cash; the other half had to pay with a credit card.”

"Energy Secretary Steven Chu ... and several Obama administration officials visited MIT yesterday to meet with business leaders about revamping federal policies to support innovation."

Andrew Lo, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, discusses behavioral finance and investment strategy during unpredictable events.

“(MIT professor Brian) Wardle and a team of researchers have developed a way of using heat-sensitive cameras to detect internal damage to composite structures.”

"Researchers, with clever experiments at these museums and elsewhere, are finding that young children have a surprisingly sophisticated intuitive grasp of probabilities, which they use to make inferences."

"Researchers from Harvard and MIT have designed a microfluidic device that uses porous 'forests' of carbon nanotubes to detect individual cancer cells or viruses such as HIV in a blood sample."