Merritt Roe Smith is Leverett and William Cutten Professor of the History of Technology. His research focuses on the history of technological innovation and social change. His publications include Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History) and,...
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Mon, 06/28/2004
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) has launched an initiative to promote innovation in the entire communications industry.
CMI's Communications Innovation Institute will unite three universities on both sides of the Atlantic with industrial partners...
Wed, 04/28/2004
More then 100 MIT students, professors, and industry and government experts convened for a symposium on "Emerging Technologies: Recognizing Uncertainty and Assessing Implications." The April 12 event, sponsored by the Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET), was the Technology and Policy Program...
Mon, 02/16/2004
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS -- The National Science Foundation has awarded MIT $2.9 million for a multidisciplinary program on assessing effects of emerging technologies.
"MIT is especially proud to receive this award to support an innovative graduate program to train scholars to assess the...
Wed, 04/23/2003
Leave it to MIT faculty members to produce a history of the United States that places science and technology in their rightful place.
Professors Merritt Roe Smith and Pauline Maier have achieved that goal in "Inventing America: A History of the United States," (Norton, 2002) co-authored...
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