Technology and society

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton poses with the Apollo guidance software she and her team developed at MIT.

Scene at MIT: Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo code

A brief history of the famous 1969 photo of the software that sent humans to the moon.

August 17, 2016

In an invited report and presentation at the White House ahead of the Paris climate negotiations, Jessika Trancik of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society described an analysis that she and her colleagues at MIT and Tsinghua University performed, including results that demonstrate a mutually reinforcing cycle between emissions-reduction policies and technology development.

Reducing emissions, improving technology: A mutually reinforcing cycle

An MIT study on the connection between technology development and emissions-reduction policies informs Paris climate negotiations.

August 8, 2016

Seymour Papert was a world-renowned visionary in education and a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab.

Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88

World-renowned mathematician, learning theorist, and educational-technology visionary was a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab.

August 1, 2016

The MIT Media Lab held a symposium on July 21 to explore the “fuzzy line” between disobedience that helps society and disobedience that doesn't. Andrew “bunnie” Huang (left) and Edward Snowden presented their technology to turn journalists’ smartphones into “cyber fortresses.”

Forbidden research

MIT Media Lab holds symposium on challenging norms to create positive change.

July 25, 2016

Using data to inform the connections between technology and policy

MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society research from the Technology and Policy Program highlights multidisciplinary approaches to data-driven policies.

July 22, 2016

Top row: (l-r) Karole Armitage, Perry Chen, Sheila Hayman. Middle row: (l-r) Keisuke Honda, Masataka Hosoo, Arielle Johnson. Bottom row: (l-r) Alaa Murabit, Madeline Sayet, Céline Semaan Vernon.

2016 MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellows announced

Program blurs the lines between academia and the world.

July 22, 2016

Romulus Capital, a venture capital seed firm, controls $150 million in funds and other assets, having just raised a new fund of $75 million in June. Now the firm plans to fund 20 new startups, adding to its existing portfolio of 30 startups, many of which are MIT spinouts.

Building a foundation for tech startups

Launched in an MIT dorm room, alum’s venture capital firm now controls $150 million in assets.

July 14, 2016

MIT announces Solve program activities

Addressing the world’s most pressing issues, second year of program will focus on in-person gatherings, solution proposals.

July 7, 2016

This image shows microneedles, which are mostly used for the delivery of drugs and vaccines across the skin, and the silicone mold used to make them.

Seeing science

Workshop led by scientist and photographer Felice Frankel teaches researchers how to translate experiments into captivating images.

July 1, 2016

“Groovy Science,” from the University of Chicago Press, was co-edited by David Kaiser (pictured), head of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Groovy science, man!

Q&A: David Kaiser on our debt to science’s countercultural turn.

June 29, 2016

A collision event display, generated by the ATLAS experiment

Music of the (data) spheres

A new MIT project taps into particle collisions to generate music and forge harmony between science and art.

June 28, 2016

“Most people want to live in in a world where cars will minimize casualties,” says Iyad Rahwan, an associate professor in the MIT Media Lab and co-author of a new paper outlining the study. “But everybody wants their own car to protect them at all costs.”

Driverless cars: Who gets protected?

Study shows inconsistent public opinion on safety of driverless cars.

June 23, 2016

CoalMap is an online tool that allows users explore the potential effects of various market factors on the cost-competitiveness of coal versus renewable energy.

Mapping coal’s decline and renewables' rise

CoalMap online tool shows what policy regulations and technological advancements can do for the cost-competitiveness of solar and wind energy.

June 22, 2016

Irrigated plains of the Punjab province in Pakistan, viewed from a Mughal tower in Sheikhpura District

A smart water grid for the Indus Basin

Architect and MIT Professor James Wescoat promotes institutional capacity building to manage a critical resource.

June 16, 2016

Andrea Campbell (left), head of the MIT Department of Political Science and the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, and Valerie Karplus, assistant professor of global economics and management, take part in a panel discussion at the Technology and Policy Program 40th anniversary event.

Technology and Policy Program celebrates 40 years

Special event marks four decades of TPP and looks to the future of technology and policy.

June 9, 2016

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