In the Media

"As far as MIT is concerned, Jacob Hurwitz is a pirate. The sophomore has the certificate to prove it. Hurwitz 'is no longer a lily-livered landlubber,’ the MIT document affirms."

"'Moneyball' is spreading beyond baseball, thanks in part to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which kicks off its sixth year today at Hynes Convention Center."

"Dead psychedelic chemical gel comes back to life 10:54 2 March 2012 Exclusives Physics and Math Caitlin Stier, video intern A colour-changing gel driven by a classic chemical reaction can now be resuscitated by adding pressure after the reaction has stabilised. Developed by Irene Chou Chen, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it's the first time oscillations in a responsive gel have been revived by a mechanical trigger."

"You know that investing can be tough. Andrew Lo (of MIT) says it's even tougher than you think."

"The Review listed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the nation’s second-best undergraduate program in game design, bested only by the University of Southern California."

"The complex architecture of the human brain and how its billions of nerve cells communicate has baffled the greatest minds for centuries."

"Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, respectively, is a wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don't."

"Does a new study lend support to Richard Lindzen's 'iris effect' hypothesis?"

"Reviving U.S. manufacturing has emerged as such a hot election-year issue that an entire afternoon of an energy technology conference was devoted to the barriers to domestic manufacturing and obstacles to retraining the U.S. manufacturing workforce."

"At the 2012 ARPA-E’s concluding plenary session this morning, the retiring President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Susan Hockfield, offered five part shots (my words) to leaders in government, industry, energy research and clean tech financing to solve America’s energy challenges, especially where it involves manufacturing."

"What is good privacy hygiene? What are some good habits in terms of protecting one's privacy in the digital age? What do they teach their kids about privacy in the digital age?"

"Remember when you were willing to wait a few seconds for a computer to respond to a click on a Web site or a tap on a keyboard?"

"When we think of a concept or a memory — or have a perception or feeling — our brain's neurons quickly fire and talk to each other across connections called synapses. How these neurons interact with each other — and what the wiring is like between them — is key to understanding our identity, says Sebastian Seung, a professor of computational neuroscience at MIT."

"The Sloan conference has become the premier event for those who like to combine their rebounds with regression analyses to find new insights into sports."

"Rather than a handful of corporate pharmaceutical behemoths controlling the simple narrative that depression is a 'chemical imbalance,' YouTube has become the center of a much more complex mediascape in which everyday individuals get to tell their own stories about depression and drugs, which often challenge drug companies’ own dominant brain-based explanations."