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MIT MERGES TECHNOLOGY LABS
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced plans to merge two high-profile labs into what will be one of the largest research labs in the world. The Laboratory for Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will be combined to form the New Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (NLCSAI), which will comprise 750 faculty, staff, and students. According to a statement from MIT, the NLCSAI "will aspire to germinate and cultivate the most far-reaching new ideas and carry out the world's best research in information and intelligence technology and science." Rodney Brooks, who will be co-director of the NLCSAI, offered this comment on the kinds of research the new lab might do: "[I]magine instead of growing a tree, cutting it down and building a table, you just grow a table, digitally instruct the organism how to grow."
Wired News, 11 June 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59137,00.html


...god damn i wish i had set my goals higher. MIT students are doing that and i'll end up making websites for life insurance companies. if i could just find the Reset button...