June 28, 2002

MIT Panel Recommends Policy on Where to Conduct Classified Research

By ROBIN WILSON

A faculty committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has recommended that professors be ready to do more classified government research in the wake of September 11, but that the research be conducted off the campus.

In the current fiscal year, the institute expects to receive about $343-million for classified research, mostly from the U.S. Air Force. All such work is done off the campus -- at the university's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass. -- but the

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