In the Media

"(MIT's Les) Perelman says any student who can read can be taught to score very highly on a machine-graded test."

"Major U.S. cities are among the world's wealthiest and technologically advanced, but they lag behind their counterparts in Latin America in preparing for climate change, a survey finds."

"There’s a startup boom in online higher education, but nearly all of the players hope to advance by working within the system."

"A brilliant team at MIT was responsible for the most focused development program of HPAs ever, building BURD (which made brief hops), Chrysalis (a contender for the Channel Prize), Monarch A & B, and the prototype Michelob Light Eagle culminating in the Daedalus in 1988."

"Would you let your elementary-schooler join the Facebook nation?"

"In a TED talk video, Transatomic co-founders Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie — both PhD students at MIT’s nuclear engineering department — point out how there’s been little innovation in the nuclear tech space over the years, partly because it’s hard for nuclear developers to adopt new technology in a world dominated by the lightwater nuclear reactor."

"A rat is smarter than Google. And that's no dig at Google, according to artificial intelligence researchers Yann LeCun and Josh Tenenbaum."

"'We're almost at a historic opportunity, in terms of the cost of owning relative to renting,' says William Wheaton, an economist at MIT. 'It's hard to think of a time in the last ... two or three decades when it's been as good to buy as right now.'"

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created 'Eulerian Video Magnification' software, which amplifies subtle movements through video technology to reveal 'hidden information' not visible by the naked eye, such as blood flowing through a face, or the human pulse."

"In a separate study released in April, researchers from Georgia Tech, as well as from Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, identified the worst kinds of tweets on Twitter."

"Sanjay Sarma, of the Field Intelligence Lab at M.I.T., is working to produce tiny, inexpensive sensors that you scatter across your lawn by the dozens and that will track everything from bug infestations to mineral deficiencies."

"Research just published by the MIT Media Lab used Google's facial-feature tracker to gauge our ability to distinguish between smiles of delight and frustration."

"The work begun by (MIT's Mark) Bear more than a decade ago has helped to change the approach to autism research."

"Intel will spend $12.5 million over the next five years to put some of its researchers in Cambridge alongside brains from MIT. And it’s not just the California chip-maker: AIG, Massachusetts’ own EMC, Thomson Reuters and SAP are all chipping in to partner with MIT."

"Seven scientists whose work spanned the outer reaches of the solar system and penetrated the inner workings of brain circuits and nanotubes were named winners of the 2012 Kavli Prizes on Thursday." - Multiple members of the MIT community were awarded Kavli Prizes.