In the Media

"OCW provides a unique outlet for him to share his passion for mathematics and his teaching skills with an appreciative worldwide audience." - Cecilia d'Oliveira, the executive director of MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW), on Professor Gilbert Strang's video lecture for course 18.06, Linear Algebra, which has been downloaded more than 1.8 million times since 2003.

"[I hope] to return to the classroom in some capacity, perhaps at MIT or Harvard, if they'll have me." - Tufts University President Lawrence Bacow, on his decision to step down in 2011 and his possible future.

"This is a very important breakthrough, one I would say that has the highest possible significance in the field." - UC Berkeley Professor Eli Yablonovitch on germanium laser chip research from MIT Professor Lionel Kimerling's lab.

"We didn't lose the moon today; we very subtly lost the moon a long time ago when the amount of money disappeared a few years ago." - Edward Crawley, professor of AeroAstro and engineering systems, on President Obama's decision to change NASA's course of action.

"When some highly intelligent MIT professors invite you to breakfast to discuss, well, intelligence, it’s probably a smart idea to go along." - New York Times blog post on presentations by MIT faculty at the Davos World Economic Forum meetings.

"This presents an opportunity for both Washington and Tokyo to step back and reconsider how the alliance should function and how it should be sold to the Japanese people in Japan's new democracy." - MIT doctoral student Tobias Harris, in an OP/ED on the Japan-U.S. Alliance

"[It] greatly increases the chances that Haitians in Haiti and abroad will be able to find each other." - Center for Future Civic Media Director Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, on FriendFinder, a Google tool being used to help find missing people in Haiti.

After Samuelson, the elementary student was taught to deal with data (real and hypothetical), analyze them by diagrammatic methods or with simple equations, and use economic principles to answer concrete questions: What would you expect to happen if? - Economics Professor Emeritus Robert Solow, on the legacy of Paul Samuelson, who died on Dec. 13.

"Music is really audible time. It can’t be experienced in an instant; it has to be unfolded in time." - Marcus Thompson, professor in the Music and Theater Arts Section, on the "Musical Time" series, which starts tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 9.

"We can now digitally turn off regions of the brain. We can alter the information in the brain in a strategically useful way." - Neuroscientist Ed Boyden, on a way to shut down parts of a brain just by shining light on them

Together, Ford and MIT are embarking on a study of driver workload and to identify new opportunities to use in-vehicle technologies to improve driver safety by lowering stress.

"What’s amazing about this is that he beat out an incumbent. That’s not easy to do. It’s a big deal. Everybody gave him the thumbs up." - Gautam Dutta, executive director of the Asian American Action Fund, on MIT's Leland Cheung, the first Asian-American and first student elected to the Cambridge City Council.

"We have [players] looking at us now that would not have taken us seriously six to seven years ago. We used to call ourselves the best basketball team that no one had heard of.” - MIT men's basketball coach Larry Anderson, on the team's success last season and its 11-0 start to this season.

"It’s like a Broadway play that you’ve practiced and practiced for months, and something always goes wrong." - Peter Belobaba, director of the MIT Global Airline Industry Program, on airline delays from this weekend's storm

It is not easy to reinvent the wheel, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are giving it their best shot. - Story on two powered bicycle-wheel projects taking place at MIT