Brian Hedden Appointed SERC Co-Associate Dean

MIT appoints Brian Hedden PhD ’12 as co-associate dean of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC), effective Jan. 16. Hedden, a professor with joint appointments in Linguistics and Philosophy and EECS who returned to MIT from Australian universities, will succeed Caspar Hare and co-lead SERC’s research, teaching, seed grants, and student programs on computing and AI ethics.