Past & Current Sponsors
MIT Department of Political Science
In the MIT Department of Political Science, goal is to advance the dialogue of political science by comparing empirical phenomena with scholarly insights into how societies work. In the process, we are developing alternative uses for existing methodologies and inventing new ones. Read More…
Science of Security Program
The National Security Agency (NSA) sponsors the Science of Security (SoS) Initiative for the promotion of a foundational cybersecurity science that is needed to mature the cybersecurity discipline and to underpin advances in cyberdefense. Read More…
Minerva Research Initiative
Launched by the Secretary of Defense in 2008, the Minerva Research Initiative is a DoD-sponsored, university-based social science research initiative that focuses on areas of strategic importance to the U.S. national security policy. Read More…
MIT Partners & Collaborators
MIT Center for International Studies
The Center for International Studies (CIS) aims to support and promote international research and education at MIT. The Center has traditionally been aligned with the social sciences while working with MIT’s premier science and engineering scholars whenever possible. We produce research that creatively addresses global issues, while helping to educate the next generation of global citizens. Read More…
MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
The mission of IDSS is to advance education and research in state-of-the-art analytical methods in information and decision systems, statistics and data science, and the social sciences, and to apply these methods to address complex societal challenges in a diverse set of areas such as finance, energy systems, urbanization, social networks, and health. Read More…
MIT Office of Digital Learning
The mission of Open Learning is to transform teaching and learning at MIT and around the globe through the innovative use of digital technologies by supporting MIT faculty and students in bold experiments to enhance our residential education, promoting and enabling quantitative, rigorous, inter-disciplinary research on teaching and learning, and providing platforms for digital education. Read More…
MIT Technology and Development Program
The mission of the MIT Technology and Development Program is to build research and academic capacity in the emerging world through assistance and scholarly guidance anchored in research in science and technology and development. We believe this science and technology infrastructure is the crucial element in building the manpower and the research and development tradition essential to finding the answers that effect change. Read More…
MIT & Masdar Coopertive Program
The MIT & Masdar Institute Cooperative Program (MIT & MICP) (2007–2018) was an ongoing collaborative program with Abu Dhabi providing advice and guidance to Masdar Institute, a graduate research university focusing on alternative energy, sustainability, advanced technologies, and innovation and entrepreneurship. Read More…
Institutional Partners
Artificial Intelligence World Society
The evolution of Artificial Intelligence holds great promise in a wide variety of sectors but can also be used in damaging ways, including political manipulation and unwarranted surveillance. For this reason, Michael Dukakis Institute has created the Artificial Intelligence World Society Initiative (AIWS) as a means of counteracting harmful and unethical uses of AI, and building the 7-layer AI model, including ethics, to achieve a peaceful and secure world. Read More…