Joi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, followed a very unorthodox career path. He dropped out of college but became a lifelong learner and a highly successful venture capitalist. At the MIT Media Lab, Ito has championed that institution's inter-disciplinary approach to problem-solving.

The TAI Studio is an invention of Till Bovermann who also runs it. It is hosted by the Media Lab Helsinki.

What jazz-playing robots have to do with intelligent cars, the future of reading and augmented intuition

ito, 44, is recognized as one of the world’s leading thinkers and writers on innovation, global technology policy, and the role of the Internet in transforming society.

The Echo Nest platform is powered by the world’s first machine learning platform for music. Based on 12 years of R&D at MIT, Columbia and Berkeley, the Echo Nest’s music intelligence platform combines large-scale data mining, natural language processing, acoustic analysis and machine learning to automatically LISTEN TO MUSIC, READ ABOUT MUSIC

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Tod Machover, born in 1953, ‘learnt opera from the inside’ as Toscanini did, playing cello in the pit—Toscanini in Parma and then La Scala, Machover at the Canadian Opera. His composition teachers included Dallapiccola, Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter. In 1978 he joined IRCAM, where his first opera, Valis, after the novel by Philip K. Dick, had its premiere in 1987.

Though the lion's share of attention fell on @anywhere, Twitter's new service, it should have fallen on Twitter's new principles instead. Principles, not products, are really what make organizations different, unique, better. "Don't be evil": we've seen just how disruptively powerful those three words can be (and, conversely, how costly it can be to backtrack on them).

When we make decisions we think we're in control, making rational choices. But are we? Entertaining and surprising, Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us.

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Whales compose, bullfrogs chorus, songbirds greet the dawn, and people everywhere sing and dance. What do we all have in common? Visitors to the Museum of Science, Boston will find out when the Museum opens its newest temporary exhibit, Wild Music: Sounds and Songs of Life. Presented Sunday, October 4, 2009 through January 3, 2010, Wild Music is a hands-on exhibit that explores sound and music in nature and in life