In the Media

"President Obama and others are demanding that we raise taxes on the "rich," and two recent academic papers that have gotten a lot of attention claim to show that there will be no ill effects if we do."

"Yes, robots are becoming real-world brain scientists."

"The best work I have seen on the subject is by Nancy Leveson, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT."

"Should Harvard and M.I.T. offer credit for these courses and even allow students to obtain their degrees online?"

"It’s not easy, after all, to experiment on a health care system."

"People have told MIT’s dean of admissions, Stuart Schmill, that he reminds them of political satirist Stephen Colbert."

"Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the antiviral action of mucus and, in particular, the mucin molecules - long, threadlike proteins that are the main building blocks of mucus."

"After a financial train wreck, it’s time to begin to learn lessons from the disaster and prevent its recurrence."

"The intersection of science and art is technology."

"Sometimes, an admissions officer’s job is more than sifting through enormous stacks of applications. Sometimes, an admissions officer has to take a stand."

"Professor Zittrain gave a keynote talk on Friday before a packed lecture hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge as part of ROFLCon, a two-day conference that aims to dissect and discuss the culture of the Web."

"Maybe it is time to think the unthinkable - that if equity investors are no longer willing to support medical research, someone else must instead. Andrew Lo, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says it could be debt investors through CDOs - collateralised drug obligations."

"Researchers say technology will make all but six human skills redundant."

"The number of people collecting disability surged as the economy contracted, with the share of the U.S. population between the ages of 25 and 64 on SSDI climbing to a record-high 5.3 percent in March from 4.5 percent in 2007."

"Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will team up on a $60 million initiative to offer free online, college-level courses under a joint superbrand known as edX, the universities said Wednesday."