In the Media

"Now, anyone can play one of the biggest modular synthesizers in the world, thanks to a new project, code-named 'PatchWerk.' With PatchWerk’s simple web interface, users around the world can control the colossal rig in real time, from its current home at the MIT Museum."

"Controlling drone aircraft could one day be as simple as waving your arms." - "Yale Song and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a way of controlling drones taxiing on a runway using gestures."

"For more than 40 years, scientists have used radio telescopes to probe starry regions trillions of miles away for sounds of alien life. But only in the past five years or so have they been able to reliably record monthslong stretches of audio in the wildernesses of Earth."

"Landing airplanes on moving ships is no mean feat, but this will be especially true when the airplanes are unmanned."

"An analysis of the computational complexity of video games, including those in the Mario and Legend of Zelda series, proves that many of them belong to a class of mathematical problems called NP-hard."

"Data–your emails, the lovely lady giving you directions in your smart phone, the latest political polls– It may be overwhelming, but it is revolutionizing all aspects of our world." - MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson is a guest on WBUR's Radio Boston and discusses "the age of big data."

"Pi appears in the search for other planets, in the way that DNA folds, in science at the world's most powerful particle collider, and in many other fields of science."

"Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are top of a global league table of university reputation - in a top 100 dominated by US institutions."

"The Turkish M.I.T. professor (Daron Acemoglu)— who, right now, is about as hot as economists get— acquired his renown for serious advances in answering the single most important question in his profession, the same one that compelled Adam Smith to write 'The Wealth of Nations': why are some countries rich while others are poor?"

"By combining biomedical diagnostics with mobile phones, he hopes to draw maps that chart the spread of epidemics in real time."

"Miles C. Barr has been awarded the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for devising a process that advances solar technology."

"Drivers don't need to be texting or talking on cellphones to be distracted enough to possibly get in trouble on the road, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are finding."

"Their answer, just published in Environmental Science and Technology, is that if wind turbines and electrical vehicles are going to fulfill the role that environmental planners have assigned them in reducing carbon-dioxide emissions, current technologies would require an increase in the supply of neodymium and dysprosium of more than 700% and 2,600% respectively during the next 25 years." - Research by MIT's Randolph Kirchain, Elisa Alonso and Frank Field is discussed.

"Don't basketball players deserve to be compensated from the funds their games generate?"

"Mens et Manus – mind and hand is the motto for MIT Sloan School of Management and something that is taken particularly seriously at the schools’ Global Entrepreneurship Lab."