On Wednesday 6 October, PBS NOVA will premiere a new film about particle physics, “Particles Unknown.”
Prof. David Kaiser has been helping with the film and made on-screen appearances throughout, including…
PhD student Rodrigo Ochigame designs alternative search engines and seeks to disrupt cultural assumptions in their teaching and research.
Bridget E. Begg | Office of Graduate Education
Publication Date:
August 15,…
After careful consideration of many excellent books, the Spengler committee decided that two contributions deserved this year’s award. The winners of the Spengler Best Book Prize 2021 are equally original and…
Energy, Environment, and Society (STS.032) with Prof. Chakanetsa Mavhunga, MIT STS Program.
Providing context for energy and sustainability issues is the major goal of STS.032, an elective for the Energy Studies…
Each year MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society offers the Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize to the MIT student submitting the best written work (under 50 pages) on issues in science,…
Marc Aidinoff, MIT HASTS Graduate Student, researches the intersection of technology policy and social policy in the United States. In this piece in the Washington Post, Marc helps frame the current…
Fostering Ethical Thinking in Computing
New case studies series examines social, ethical, and policy challenges of present-day computing activities.
Terri Park | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
March 2, 2021
Traditional…
For decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here, she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges.…