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Ivy League rivalry is about the only thing unredacted in Marvin Minsky’s FBI file
by
JPat Brown
The Federal Bureau of Investigation file on famed artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky documents what appears to be a 1964 investigation into the wife of one of Minsky’s acquaintances, whom the Bureau suspected of being a Soviet spy. Though details are scarce and redactions heavy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor does manage to add some fuel to an ancient Ivy League rivalry.
Most campus records at private colleges remain protected from public disclosure
by
Beryl Lipton
Recent police calls on people of color remind us that private universities operate on accountability mechanisms different than their public counterparts.