In the Media

"Arizona State University's Judd Bowman and Alan Rogers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a small-scale radio astronomy experiment designed to detect a never-before-seen signal from the early universe during this period of time, a development that has the potential to revolutionize the understanding of how the first galaxies formed and evolved."

Economists Weigh In On Tax Compromise - MIT economist and professor Simon Johnson is a guest on NPR's All Things Considered, speaking about the tax compromise.

"Led by the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it analysed billions of phone calls within Britain to find out whether the country’s internal administrative borders are drawn in a way that corresponds with how people actually interact."

"Luckily for spendthrifts, Kestner and his colleagues have come up with a solution: a wallet that warns you when you're getting dangerously carried away with your shopping."

"Convinced that consumers aren't in touch with their financial realities, an MIT designer has created a series of wallets to help you control what you spend."

"MIT researcher Mark Bear thinks that some forms of autism and mental retardation may be treatable with drugs already on laboratory shelves."

Blue Sky Thinking - MIT professor Moshe Ben-Akiva is profiled as one of The Wall Street Journal's list of five innovative thinkers working in the transport industry today.

"The study, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Joseph Ferreira, Jr. and Eric Minikel, a recent MIT grad, is the first to link real miles driven with actual claims filed – the insurance claims the two examined totaled 34 billion miles." - Report on a study about pay-as-you-drive car insurance

Top thinkers: Daron Acemoglu - Interview with Reuters' Chrystia Freeland

"The foundations of affective computing were laid in the 1990s by MIT professor Rosalind W. Picard, who oversees the lab with the face-tracking demo."

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Frank Levy and his co-author Kyoung-Hee Yu of the Australian School of Business argue that the fear that radiological work would be offshored to Bangalore was mostly media hype." - Story: "India Is Benign for Radiologists, Economists Argue"

"On Thursday, MIT graduate students from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning will be hosting their second and final community meeting on the future of Needham Street, according to a release."

Silly Science Honored With Ig Nobel Prizes - MIT professor Eric Adams is a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation, honored as one of the recipients of the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize awards.

"Such automation is precisely what Mehmet Fatih Yanik of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have in mind. They have created a miniature production line to streamline the process of testing drugs on worms." - Report about research on mass-screening of drug candidates on tiny animals.

Arnold Barnett - Do Body Scanners Make Us Safer? - MIT professor Arnold Barnett speaks about the controversy surrounding new security measures.