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A revered rocket scientist set in motion China’s mass surveillance of its citizens

SHANGHAI, CHINA—It's rare that a scientist becomes a folk hero. But in China, Qian Xuesen draws crowds almost a decade after his death. On a Saturday morning in a three-story museum here, tourists adm... read more

China's mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist's advocacy for "systems thinking"

In 1955, MIT- and Caltech-educated Qian Xuesen was fired from his job teaching at JPL and deported from the USA under suspicion of being a communist sympathizer; on his return to China, he led the cou... read more

Remembering Erich Bloch (1925–2016)

Erich Bloch, who died last week at age 91, was not your typical federal bureaucrat. As director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, Bloch was called before the Senate scie... read more