In the News

This is a small sample of press articles that feature or mention Center for Future Banking and its members. While not all the articles directly refer to the Center and our research, this provides a small window to the many research that involve our faculty, students, and executives-in-residence.

* Hiroshi Ishii is featured in MIT TechTalk's "Making the Virtual Tangible" (April 8, 2009).

* The Center for Future Banking is mentioned in BusinessWeek.com's "Innovation Tools and Trends" slide show (2009).

* Sandy Pentland's work tracking cell-phone users via GPS is featured in Newsweek's "A Trillion Points of Data" (February 28, 2009).

* Research by Smart Cities is featured in the MSNBC.com article "Green Wheel Turns Pedal Bike into Electric Hog" (February 18, 2009).

* A Wired article with "Dan Ariely on Why We Cheat" (February 07, 2009).

* Pattie Maes and her Fluid Interfaces group is featured in Wired's "Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense" article (February 5, 2009).

* Deb Roy's Human Speechome Project is featured in Globe and Mail. Read "Someone to Watch Over Me" (December 13, 2008).

* Sandy Pentland discusses the issue of digital privacy with New York Times in "You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?" (November 29, 2008).

* Discover Magazine article featuring the "20 Best Brains Under 40", including our very own Ed Boyden (November 20, 2008).

* Joe Paradiso's research on X-reality is featured in a Forbes article, "A Realer Virtual World" (November 7, 2008).

* According to Jeff Carter, the Media Lab "literally changes the way you view life." Read the American Banker article, "Bank of America" (November 2008).

* Boston Globe article featuring Rosalind Picard's work in "High-Tech Clues to Facial Cues" (October 27, 2008).

* Pattie Maes is named a Digital Journal Maverick in "The Woman Creating New Human-Tech Relationships" (May 31, 2008).

* The Media Lab is "Discovering the Future of Banking" through our collaboration with Bank of America a(May 2008).

* An article by the Boston Globe highlights the beginnings of the Center for Future Banking in "Decisions, decisions" (April 14, 2008).