The Sunday Telegraph London, March 30th, 2008
IT'S NOT THE TILTING COLUMNS THAT MAKE YOU smile, diverting though they are. Nor is it the mirrored walls that swerve and collide in random curves and playful angles. What amuses, as you walk through MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is the yellow hazard sign erected by students at an intersection of walkways. 'Nerds x-ing' it warns, under a stick man with glasses, rucksack and satchel. It could be argued that I am here, in snowy Boston, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to meet the king of the nerds, the godfather of the geeks, the ultimate web-lebri...
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