Contemporary democratic elections are increasingly technology intensive. With anxieties about the technological integrity of both American and foreign elections at an all-time high, how can researchers, policymakers, and publics better understand how technological systems are implicated in election planning, infrastructure, security, and maintenance? The MIT programs in Anthropology, History, and Science, Technology, and Society invites […]

Special Advanced Screening, Einstein’s Quantum Riddle Wednesday, January 9, 2019, 7pm-9pm, MIT 6-120 Come watch a special preview screening of a new NOVA documentary film about quantum entanglement, Einstein’s Quantum Riddle, to be followed by a panel discussion featuring local experts, including MIT physicists who conducted the recent “Cosmic Bell” experiments that are featured in […]

With a focus on the Miller Lecture’s mission to explore the humanistic, social, legal, and cultural dimensions of scientific and technological developments, the event committee is producing a panel discussion featuring leaders in identifying many of the social complexities and challenges that have arisen with computation and especially with artificial intelligence and machinery learning. PANELISTS: […]

Linking the Brain:  Computerization, Biomedicalization, and Globalization in Neuroscience, 1960-2000 Thursday, February 27, 2020 4PM | E51-095 Many observers have assumed that the American Human Brain Project of the 1990s […]