Well, the report is now live, here, with 22 thought-provoking responses. Computing, the scientific method, culture, Chinese, and how to start something are among the areas Xconomists think students can learn to be prepared for a rapidly evolving economy.

Still, the world is now flatter. The big shift is imposing. Seismic changes are happening. Nobel Laureate David Baltimore notes, “America no longer has a lock on technology, Europe is increasingly competitive and Asia has the potential to blow us out...

“Eric felt, rightly, that while M.I.T. had wonderful computer science, engineering, physics, research, unless you formally involved Harvard and the hospitals and the medical science, you would get into trouble,” said Dr. David Baltimore, the Nobel...

The biotech and pharmaceutical presence here, too, can be traced to a couple of key decisions: first, MIT’s willingness in 1982 to accept Edwin (Jack) Whitehead’s gift of an affiliated but self-governing research institute (Harvard and Duke earlier had...

"I arrived after he came to Caltech...and he was just wonderful to me and Alice, my wife, taking us around and introducing us to people, making sure if anything was wrong we could get it fixed - whatever it took," Nobel laureate and former Caltech...

Click here to watch the video. Professor of chemistry and chemical engineering and 2011 Draper Prize winner Frances Arnold presented her lecture "Design by Evolution: Engineering Biology in the 21st Century" at the Draper Prize lecture series. Click...