1998 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture — John H. Gibbons, “Governance of Science and Technology…”

For his second of three Karl Taylor Compton Lectures, Dr. John H. Gibbons delivers a talk on October 22, 1998  titled “The Governance of Science and Technology: Theory, Myth, Reality”, in which he discusses the role of the government in influencing technological research and development, and reviews recent national science and technology initiatives.  Introduction by Institute Professor John M. Deutsch. The Compton Lecture series was inaugurated in 1958 with the intention to bring “some of the great minds on the world scene” to the MIT campus. Josh Cohen, DH of Political Science.