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The century-long history of efforts to mobilize the social sciences for national security offers cautionary tales and important lessons for the future of national security research.

Experiential Ethics is a summer MIT course that teaches ethical principles and challenges students to think about those concepts and apply them in the context of their concurrent summer experience.

When the personal computer went from being a "bicycle for the mind" to a surveilled shopping mall.

The state of the art in robotics and artificial intelligence continues to advance at an accelerating clip, surprising experts and futurists. Increasingly complex and in telligent machines are changing the texture of human life as they are insinuated into more spheres of activity, from manufacturing to law enforcement to stock trading. Military applications have historically been one of the greatest drivers of innovation. We can trace the history of warfighting—and especially its recent histor...