In the Media

"Imagine how many well-prepared minds you would have to try to solve the country’s problems.” -MIT's Michael DeGraff

"The researchers brought the toy to the Museum of Science in Boston and asked 85 preschoolers to play with it under one of four different experimental conditions."

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working to improve remote imaging of the piping at pressurized water reactors with the development of tiny, spherical robots that could work their way through them and send video images back to watchers in a control room."

"Fancy a job swimming through the radioactive pipes beneath a nuclear reactor? Probably not if you're a human, but that's just what this spherical robot is designed to do."

"You know those nature shows where they put a little tracking device on an animal and then release it into the wild? Some guys at MIT have done that with electronics."

"Researchers have shown that a computer can master the video game Civilization II—in part by reading the manual."

"Successful civic media tools -- especially ones designed by this conference's attendees -- re-engineer how mass-mobilization happens. But does that mean we should turn the page on old lessons?"

"One provision of the Gang of Six proposal is reform, not eliminate, tax expenditures for health, charitable giving, homeownership and retirement."

"A new exhibit created by researchers at MIT's SENSEable City Lab for New York's Museum of Modern Art probes the "afterlife" of our discarded gadgets, from cellphones and batteries to printer cartridges and computers."

"The key thing about this process is that the neural network doesn’t even know whether it’s correctly identifying state/action pairs when it starts—it doesn’t know how to “read”—much less whether it has correctly interpreted the advice they convey (do you build near a river, or should you never build by a river?)."

"It's a gel-like substance that would replace vocal cords that have become rigid from extensive use. And it's moving closer to FDA approval."

“I wanted to make changes on the scope of millions."- Reid Hoffman

"A glowing blue robot skims across the stage toward him."

"I've spent a great deal of this TEDGlobal talking to this year's fellows -- because, without exception, they've proved to be inspiring company: curious and driven, openminded and informed, achievement-focused yet disarmingly humble."

"No thicker than a piece of paper - because it practically is a piece of paper - a solar panel created by an MIT researcher can be shoved into a pocket or made into a paper airplane, and it will still create energy when exposed to sunlight."