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Nominations open for $250,000 MIT Media Lab prize for Disobedient Research

via Boing Boing

March 9, 2017

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Last summer, the MIT Media Lab announced its $250,000 prize for Disobedient Research, and now the nominations process has launched.

The prize is bankrolled by Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman. It's the largest cash prize being offered at MIT (you don't have to be associated with MIT to enter), and it will go to "responsible, ethical disobedience aimed at challenging the norms, rules, or laws that sustain society’s injustices."

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