"Simon Johnson, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about U.S. fiscal policy and his book White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You. He speaks with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's 'Surveillance Midday.'"
"A goal of an upcoming MIT conference is to create a new interdisciplinary field focused on issues related to collective intelligence such as crowdsourcing, on-line collaboration, animal collective intelligence, collective decision-making, and the wisdom of crowds."
"A goal of an upcoming MIT conference is to create a new interdisciplinary field focused on issues related to collective intelligence such as crowdsourcing, on-line collaboration, animal collective intelligence, collective decision-making, and the wisdom of crowds."
"So if your alma mater’s name appears in a news article, a blog posting, or a Tweet, the company’s tracking system will collect it, analyze it, and rank it against the names of other institutions. In the most recent rankings of American universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took the top spot."
"Professor Seth Teller of the university’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is trying to create life-saving devices for police, paramedics, and other first responders."
"It sounds like something out of a fantasy film: a vat of sand into which you plunge a small object only to watch the sand bind together to form larger copies of the same object."
"Their 'smart sand' is made up of individual grains that are really one centimetre square cubes with microprocessors inside and switchable magnets on four of their six faces which can talk to each other electronically and sense their neighbors."
"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are bridging the gap between military robots and their human counterparts, by teaching drones to understand human gestures."
"When Samuel Ting got up to give his plenary talk at the opening session of the American Physicial Society’s spring meeting here in Atlanta on 31 March, the vast hotel ballroom was close to standing-room only."