In the Media

"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."

"These remotely operated aircraft are being used for tracking wildlife, scanning the skies for developing tornadoes, patrolling the border, and getting video footage after or during disasters - for example, to gauge the spread of forest fires in the Southwest."

"Voters who watch a lot of TV but aren’t well versed on the issues are most likely to be influenced by the physical appearance of political candidates, an MIT study released today shows."

"If you need help getting out of a crashed car, or if you're a soldier maneuvering around an active land mine field, space shuttle-derived technology may have saved your life."

"Imagine decorating your sunny bedroom with wallpaper that generates electricity."

"To a computer, words and sentences appear like data. But AI researchers want to teach computers how to actually understand the meaning of a sentence and learn from it."

"Alexie Kolpak and Jeffrey Grossman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology propose a new type of solar thermal fuel that would be affordable, rechargeable, thermally stable, and more energy-dense than lithium-ion batteries."