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U.S.-Russia Arms Control: Prospects and Challenges

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  • Amb. Steven Pifer
| March 29, 2013

This seminar examined the prospects for further nuclear arms reductions between the United States and Russia, including the possibility that negotiations might be expanded to weapons not limited by the New START Treaty. The seminar covered U.S. and Russian differences over missile defense and how those might be resolved to allow a cooperative NATO-Russia missile defense arrangement for Europe.

Professor Chris Dede

Wireless EdTech 2011 Photo

News - Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center

ICTPP Faculty Affiliate Chris Dede Leads Wireless Education Technology Conference 2011

| November 15, 2011

ICTPP Faculty Affiliate and Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Chris Dede convened the Wireless Education Technology Conference 2011 in Washington, D.C., on October 20–21, 2011. Its focus: the major issues that must be resolved to realize the full potential of mobile broadband for learning.

Communications & Internet Policy panelists from left to right: Susan Crawford, Ben Edelman, Yochai Benkler, and Jonathan Zittrain.

Martha Stewart Photo

News - Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center

Communications & Internet Policy—Panel Discussion

| March 25, 2011

The Communications & Internet Policy panel had a far ranging discussion at Harvard Kennedy School's September 2010 Technology & Governance 2.0 conference on the pressing policy challenges in the Information and Communications Technology space, Topics covered include, IPV4 to IPV6 challenge, competitive pressures in cable vs. fiber optics, Internet Governance, and the problems of Internet advertising.

Harvard Kennedy School's John P. Holdren Named Obama's Science Advisor

Tom FitzSimmons

Press Release

Harvard Kennedy School's John P. Holdren Named Obama's Science Advisor

| December 20, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama announced in his radio address Saturday that he has selected Harvard's John P. Holdren to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology in the new administration. The post, popularly known as "the President's science advisor," also includes directorship of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and requires Senate confirmation.