Historian of the hinterlands
In overlooked spots on the map, MIT Professor Kate Brown examines the turbulence of the modern world.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
November 12, 2019
History…
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Putting the “bang” in the Big Bang
Physicists simulate critical “reheating” period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions of a second.
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ETHICS, COMPUTING, AND AI | PERSPECTIVES FROM MIT
Clues and Caution for AI from the History of Biomedicine
Robin Wolfe Scheffler
“The very intractability of biology and medicine to computation makes…
Tech-Master Disaster: Part 3
Take a walk through Kendall Square, Cambridge, this hour. It’s the Emerald City of biotechnology—as magical/mysterious as the Land of Oz, but it’s real, too. The new…
We ignore the past at our peril
To navigate the present, we must heed the lessons of history.
To count the handful of years between the newest and oldest paper on…
24 September 2019
Discovery is always political
David Kaiser traces the roots of government support for science, in the first of a series of essays on how the past 150 years…
Deringer’s first book, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (Harvard University Press, 2018) was selected as the winner of the 2019 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize from the…