In the Media

“Army Special Forces veteran Randy Tipton isn't quite ready to say he feels like television's ‘Six Million Dollar Man.’ But his brand-new robotic foot represents a groundbreaking advance in prosthetics technology made possible by tens of millions of dollars the U.S. government has poured into research to ‘rebuild’ service members who've lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

"Downtown Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to MIT's very own nuclear reactor, which is used in a variety of medical, imaging and power experiments."

“Scientists have been saying for years that as the planet heats up, we will have to deal with more severe weather. But pinning any particular event — such as a specific hurricane — to global warming is difficult at best. Now, scientists have tried to do just that.”

Smartest Machine on Earth - MIT Professor Patrick Winston is among those interviewed for the NOVA special about IBM's Watson, a supercomputer taking on two humans in Jeopardy! this week.

"Last night, an overflow crowd in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology lecture hall watched as IBM Corp.’s Watson computer played to a draw against human opponents in the quiz show 'Jeopardy!'"

"We’re trying to get people to understand it’s not about paper boats and cranes." - MIT sophomore Yanping Chen in a feature about OrigaMIT, an origami club at the Institute.

"Whatever the outcome, the fact that a machine is able to compete against the most successful players ever to appear on Jeopardy! 'is a remarkable achievement', says Boris Katz, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"A complete genetic map of prostate cancer has been charted for the first time by scientists, an achievement that may expand understanding of the disease and lead to new treatments." - New research from Levi Garraway of the Broad Institute

"An MIT economist and adviser to President Barack Obama is turning to comic books to help make the pitch for the administration's embattled health care law."

"Practicing pistol ... taught me a great deal of discipline and self-control. You always need to strive to achieve perfection in what you’re doing, and that mind-set carries with you to your academic life and your professional life." - Daipan Lee ’07, in a feature on MIT's sport pistol team

Brown making pair of Bay State stops - U.S. Sen. Scott Brown will visit MIT today to discuss his 'Innovate America Act'

"You have neurological changes in the brain, which is just processing time, sending signals from one nerve to another. Some get slower more than others." - Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab

MIT Celebrates Innovation In Music - Tod Machover discusses the FAST festival that kicked off as part of MIT's 150th anniversary celebration.

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MIT heading into home stretch of hunt for next Media Lab director