Word: vesting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When MIT President Charles M. Vest stepped to the podium last Friday to address more than 100 researchers and one White House advisor, his mien counterbalanced a series of pat presentations by the fast-talking colleagues who flanked him. Bent over the MIT-crested lectern, he cracked a few self-deprecating jokes in a West Virginia drawl and keyed through some Powerpoint slides bearing droll titles...
...Vest has been adamantly promoting a series of issues publicly since Sept. 11, when the government began to classify certain projects as “sensitive”—a vaguely defined research category sometimes used to prevent work from being published—and bar foreign researchers from certain countries from participating in sensitive or classified projects...
...Vest, who is a member of President Bush’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, championed this balance at the conference on Friday...
...Vest remarked at Friday’s conference, the tremendous complexity of national-security concerns and regulations demands clear and creative solutions...
...Homeland security—well, I think this is the mother of all systems problems,” Vest said. “If every there was an area that required out-of-the-box, innovative thinking, this...