“MIT is where science and society meet.” – Former MIT President Susan Hockfield
Scholars in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) conduct research at that meeting point, from the history of science and technology to anthropology, sociology, and literature. Scholars in STS ask “How do changes in science and technology affect what it means to be human?” and, conversely, “How do science and technology express human values?”
Our own Prof. Sherry Turkle was recently honored by the Associates of the Boston Public Library as one of New England's leading "Literary Lights"
This year's Cambridge Science Festival is just around the corner, with a great mix of events.
To help kick off the festival, there will be an event on "Big Ideas for Busy People" on Friday, 12 April from 7:30 - 9:30pm in the First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Avenue.
Prof. Natasha Schüll's new book Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas is mentioned inThe New York Times articleand
is quoted in a BBC Article on the topic of her class "Self as Data".
Prof. David Mindell receives the 2013 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Read Prof. David Kaiser's op-ed"I Didn't Write That" in the New York TimesNovember 3, 2012 issue.
STS Professor Dr. Clapperton Mavhunga
Speaks about "Incoming Technology and African Innovation" as a Carson Fellow with the Rachel Carson Center
Sited in the article "Territorila Legacies and Criminalized indeigenous Technologies" during the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Crticism
Will deliver the 24th Annual Nicholas Mullins Distinguished Lecture at Virgina Tech in February of 2013
Spring 2013 Events
