In the Media

"Ted Postol of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and I recently completed a detailed technical study of the proposed missile defense system. Our main conclusion was that the system as planned would 'result in an apparent paradox.'"

"It's definitely the coolest liquid trick I've seen since the bouncing shampoo demonstration a few years back."

"Barzilay found that putting a machine-learning system to work on Civ gave it a victory rate of 46 percent, but that when the system was able to use the manual for the game to guide the development of its strategy, it rose dramatically to 79 percent."

"Only the most hardcore puzzle-solvers ever go beyond the standard 3x3x3 Rubik's cube, attempting much larger ones."

"Back then, grandmothers didn’t e-mail, and Facebook, Twitter, and iPhones didn’t exist. Teens argued with their parents about watching too much TV, not whether they could text all night long. Politicians lost their jobs for real-life sex scandals, not virtual ones."

"You will learn a lot from 'For the Love of Physics': How to see rainbows in the shower and fogbows in the fog (car headlights; pull over); how to give yourself a halo; how to make a battery with a potato, a penny, a nail and a couple of wires."

"The smell of public activism wafted across this year's Knight Civic Media conference at MIT."

"Tickle a particle here, and its partner should instantly dance, no matter how far away it had traveled."

"We have all encountered the problem. You visit a site and suddenly a serious and convincing looking pop-up appears on your screen to tell you that your system has a virus on it. Most people just ignore them, but a few users are so scared that they pay."

“It’s not about stitching devices together, it’s about stitching people together,” Borovoy told the crowd.

"As the country attempts to lift its population by a fifth over the next two decades, from 5.08 million to 6 million, it is linking with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to devise ways to manage its expansion — knowledge it plans to export to other cities."

"While computers, phones, and even watches have been transformed at breathtaking speed, improvements to medical devices have arrived slowly and incrementally. Now, a new center at MIT wants to bring the breakneck pace of consumer tech development to such devices, and cement the Boston region’s role in that transformation."

"Basically, in addition to building exoskeletons that allow people to carry 100-pound loads for many miles and jump three stories, Herr is working on a spider suit that uses latex connections at the joints of a jacket to increase your pull-up power."

"The asteroid was discovered by MIT’s Linear program, which uses a pair of robotic telescopes in New Mexico to scan the skies for hazards."

"Last night, as I lay huddled in my sleeping bag, I thought for the first time in a while about whether I will miss life on the Trail."