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Michael John Gorman Publishes Op-Ed in the Observer – When the Future Came to City Hall: The Forgotten Blueprint for A.I. Governance

Jul 29, 2026

Michael John Gorman, the Mark R. Epstein (Class of 1963) Director of the MIT Museum and Professor of the Practice of Science, Technology, and Society, has published an OpEd, titled “When…

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Mohamed Suufi on His STS Minor – Seeking the World Through a Different Lens

Apr 14, 2025

Mohamed Suufi Computer Science and Molecular Biology major Science, Technology, and Society minor What’ve you enjoyed most about your area of study? Was there a particular discovery, new skill or way…

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Lasya Balachandran on Her STS Minor – Contextualizing the Development of Future Technologies for the Improvement of Society

Apr 14, 2025

Lasya Balachandran Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major Mathematics major Science, Technology, and Society minor What’ve you enjoyed most about your area of study? Was there a particular discovery, new skill…

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Lila Chen on Her STS Minor – Bridging Technical Expertise with Social Awareness

Apr 10, 2025

Lila Chen Computer Science and Engineering major Science, Technology, and Society minor What’ve you enjoyed most about your area of study? Was there a particular discovery, new skill or way of…

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Prof. Kate Brown: “One thing nuclear power plants weren’t built to survive: War”, Washington Post

Mar 21, 2022

One thing nuclear power plants weren’t built to survive: War Military strategists commonly target the enemy’s electrical grid. That’s a problem when combat is in a nuclearized country like Ukraine. By …

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“Empathy Rules” by Prof. Sherry Turkle

Feb 22, 2022

Empathy Rules by Prof. Sherry Turkle Sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the phrase anomie to describe a destabilized and destabilizing state when rules and rule givers lose legitimacy. It’s what…

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Washington Post: The history of using computers to distribute benefits like Biden’s relief checks, by Marc Aidinoff, HASTS graduate student

Mar 10, 2021

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…

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Physics Today: The Year in Review – Books and more that stood out in 2020

Dec 22, 2020

Prof. David Kaiser’s, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (Univ Chicago Press, 2020), is listed as a book that stood out in 2020. READ MORE: Physics Today, The Year in…
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