• Ben Vinson III
    2025

    Ben Vinson III

    AI in an Age After Reason: A Discourse on Fundamental Human Questions
    March 17, 2025 | 4 pm
    Samberg Conference Center (Building E52) 7th floor

    The Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Series was established in 1957 to honor the late Karl Taylor Compton, who served as president of MIT from 1930 to 1948 and as chairman of the MIT Corporation from 1948 to 1954. The lecture series gives the MIT community direct contact with the important ideas of our times and with people who have contributed much to modern thought.
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  • Martin Baron
    2022

    Martin Baron

    Reality Check: Facts under Assault, Democracy Threatened
    April 21, 2022 | 4 pm
    10-250

    The Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Series was established in 1957 to honor the late Karl Taylor Compton, who served as president of MIT from 1930 to 1948 and as chairman of the MIT Corporation from 1948 to 1954. The lecture series gives the MIT community direct contact with the important ideas of our times and with people who have contributed much to modern thought.
    More on the history

  • Sylvester James Gates, Jr.
    2021

    Sylvester James Gates, Jr.

    A Physics Faculty Career Retrospective: Research, Teaching, and Service
    Tuesday, September 21, 2021, 4 pm
    Kresge Auditorium
  • Kwame Anthony Appiah
    2021

    Kwame Anthony Appiah

    One Way to Think about Racism
    Thursday, April 22, 2021, 4 pm
    Online
  • Renée Fleming
    2019

    Renée Fleming

    Music and the Mind
    Monday, March 11, 2019, 4 pm
    Kresge Auditorium