In the Media

"Researchers say technology will make all but six human skills redundant."

"The number of people collecting disability surged as the economy contracted, with the share of the U.S. population between the ages of 25 and 64 on SSDI climbing to a record-high 5.3 percent in March from 4.5 percent in 2007."

"Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will team up on a $60 million initiative to offer free online, college-level courses under a joint superbrand known as edX, the universities said Wednesday."

"Last night the National Inventors Hall of Fame added seven living inventors to its pantheon of innovative immortals, as well as three deceased ones, in its fortieth annual induction ceremony, in Washington, D.C."

"Columbia University’s Radiator Labs won the MIT Clean Energy Prize for a low-cost, easily installed radiator retrofit that converts inefficient radiator heating systems into controllable zoned systems where each radiator represents a single zone with temperature control feedback."

"In 1996 a young mathematician and computer scientist named Erik Demaine became fascinated by a magic trick that Harry Houdini used to do before he made his name as an escape artist."

"What happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education: a rescrambling around the Web."

"If you want recommendations, Education-Portal.com will link you to some of the best free college courses, such as the 1,800-plus offered by M.I.T. and the arts and history at the U.K.'s Open University."

"Now there's a weapon to fight spam - an automatic fact-checker called LazyTruth built into your email."

"The Lemelson-MIT Program said Wednesday that Ashok Gadgil is the recipient of its $100,000 Award for Global Innovation."

"In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities."

"A virtual assistant can help blind people explore their surroundings."

"Peter Diamond, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in economics, also sees little evidence that raising rates on the top 1 percent of income earners -- households making about $350,000 or more a year in 2010 -- would restrict growth."

"Everywhere I look, it seems, all I see are robots."

"When people ask computational theorist Scott Aaronson if working quantum computers will become widely available soon, he likens this to asking the same of 19th Century English mathematician Charles Babbage, whose designs were the basis for the earliest all-purpose computers."