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Sources: Congressional Quarterly (2); New Scientist (2); Injury Control and Safety Promotion (2); AP; USA Today...
McLurkin, 32, has come a long way since that first machine. Now a graduate student in computer science at M.I.T., the young scientist is on the forefront of developing "swarmbots"--packs of dozens of small robots that communicate with one another and work in harmony to complete an assignment. They have no centralized command system and can cover vast terrain; if one is destroyed, others fill in. His 112 titanium robots resemble small car batteries on wheels. McLurkin is working with a team at iRobot, a private Boston-based robotics firm, to find practical uses for his fleet...
...serious scientist, of course I would do experiments,” she says with a chuckle. “Otherwise I’d just be floating around. I’d like to go bounce on a planet or two. A lot of my friends say I should write their names on the moon...
...combines the roles of scientist and scholar very nicely,” he says. “He combines on the one hand scientific strength so that he’s made important contribution to the scientific analysis of human language and he puts that together with the broadly scholarly perspective that you see in his book...
...George Whitesides is a scientist of extraordinary imagination and scope, and his long record of crossdisciplinary innovation, most recently in nanotechnology, exemplifies the excitement and promise of modern science,” Summers said...