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...name's Frank Gehry, and my buildings don't leak.' FRANK GEHRY, architect of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, referring to the lawsuit recently filed against him by MIT, which says his flawed design of the school's $300 million Stata Center caused mold, leaks and drainage problems...
FRANK GEHRY, architect of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, referring to the lawsuit recently filed against him by MIT, which says his flawed design of the school's $300 million Stata Center caused mold, leaks and drainage problems...
...technology was on display in Victorville, but the DARPA challenge also demonstrated a new way of developing technology. You could call it the open-sourcing of R&D, or maybe the American Idol-izing of it. Amateurs are free to mix it up with big corporations and research universities. MIT was among the 35 competitors, but so was Team Gray Racing, a Louisiana troupe started by insurance-company executives after they heard about the first DARPA road race. "They said, 'We've got some good tech people--why don't we do this?'" says a Team Gray member. And DARPA...
...finished at all. The atmosphere was celebratory, though tempered by the uncanniness of watching driverless cars ŕ la Stephen King's Christine, a 1958 Plymouth with a taste for blood. "It's pretty creepy when your vehicle starts beeping and it peels out," says a grad student on the MIT team, which placed fourth. "You're sitting here thinking, Oh my God, what's happening? But when it comes back to you at the end? That's really awesome...
Zornow journeyed into the big city with childhood friend and current MIT senior Mike S. Fleder. “Both of us were always looking for music that people from our neighborhood didn’t normally listen to,” he says. “It’s a little bit of a counterculture thing...