Question: Sociometric Solutions is a Boston, Massachusetts-based business founded by MIT students and covered in the media by a weekly English-language science magazine, founded in what year? 
Sentence (from "MIT Mystery Hunt"): It has inspired similar competitions at Microsoft, Stanford University, Melbourne University, University of South Carolina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Aveiro (Portugal) as well as in the Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, Washington, DC, Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio metropolitan areas.
Relevant evidence: No