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Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
Our Public Sphere, or, How to Meet as a Faculty
A colleague wrote to us early last semester to complain that Institute faculty meetings are boring. Since then, it’s probably fair to say that meetings have experienced one of their...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
Engaging Constructively with Israel/Palestine
In response to: “Gaza: What Have We Learned from the bin Salman Scandal?” Sally Haslanger, Jonathan A. King, Ceasar McDowell, Nasser Rabbat and Balakrishnan Rajagopal note that the war in...
Vol. XXXVI No. 2November/December 2023
Thanking the Protesting Students
As the administration has repeatedly noted, the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom reserves the right to limit “the time, place, and manner of protected expression, including...
Vol. XXXVI No. 1September/October 2023
Curious About Curiosity Unbounded
I was intrigued by the theme “Curiosity Unbounded” for President Sally Kornbluth’s inauguration, a theme she continued in her podcasts with recently tenured faculty at MIT (https://president.mit.edu/podcasts). At first hearing,...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Neither Fire Nor Ice – Just Chatter
Once upon a time we worried that the computer would take over our spaceship, or our job. Now computers, armed with novel artificial intelligence algorithms, threaten apocalypse through something much...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Mary C. Fuller New Chair of the Faculty
Professor Mary C. Fuller will succeed Lily Tsai as Chair of the Faculty on July 1, 2023, after serving as Chair-elect during the current academic year. Mary is Professor of...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
MIT Staff Emergency Hardship Fund Offers Grants to Those in Need
Since its establishment in April 2020, the MIT Staff Emergency Hardship Fund has provided financial relief to nearly 430 staff and postdoctoral scholars, and has proven to be a vital...
Vol.XXXV No. 4May/June 2023
Are MIT Faculty Serious About Addressing AI Bias?
Together with MIT students, staff, and non-MIT colleagues, I recently made an educational video on the ethics of AI bias. It was posted over a month ago on MIT’s OCW...