MIT Program on Emerging Technologies

The Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET) is a collaborative effort between the School of Engineering and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

According to the PoET website: "Emerging technologies in areas such as ubiquitous computing, genetic engineering, and micro and nanotechnologies are developing at extraordinary rates. Understanding of the economic, security, environmental, and cultural implications of emerging technologies has not kept pace with underlying technological change. The Program on Emerging Technologies at MIT seeks to improve responses to emerging technologies by engaging early and explicitly with the pervasive uncertainty that is often under-recognized in technology assessment exercises." [1]

PoET areas of research include planned adaptation in regulation.[2]

Leadership

Funding
  • PoET is an NSF-IGERT Program, meaning it receives funds from the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program.
gollark: There are *low-cost* ones.
gollark: Rust's pretty fast and has the neat safety thing going on.
gollark: Or you could just use high*er* level languages which make it somewhat harder to randomly corrupt memory or whatever.
gollark: Probably, but at least the logic errors generally lead to "oops that does not work correctly I must now fix it" instead of "oh look, the application is now vulnerable to remote code execution".
gollark: I doubt they can actually pick up on all the exciting variety of memory corruption bugs and such.

References
  1. http://poet.mit.edu/
  2. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/emerging-0428.html
  3. http://esd.mit.edu/Faculty_Pages/oye/oye.htm
  4. http://esd.mit.edu/Faculty_Pages/hastings/hastings.htm
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2012-07-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)




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