Sorin Adam Matei

At the height of the space exploration era, General Vandenberg was a demi-god on a par with his civilian peers: Wernher von Braun, the creator of the Saturn V rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon; Robert Gilruth, the originator of America’s h…

Aristotle said it first: “Humans are social animals.”

The Navy SEALs (Sea, Air, and Land warriors) are deep thinkers.

What does the Coast Guard do?

The ancient Roman general and Consul Cincinnatus lived, as Livy tells the story, with one hand on the sword and the other on the plowshares.

I am not a squeamish man.

The mission was simple; the fighters were not, and their understanding of what they were doing was even poorer.

In the sixty-first year of my life, I was looking down into an abyss.

FORCES Virtual D-Day, also known as Virtual Omaha, launched on June 6 in Washington, DC, bringing Omaha Beach to life as an immersive history education tool.

FORCES military geospatial data science projects THOR, OPMAPS, Barbarossa, and South China Sea turn maps into evidence for strategy.

When Jeff Bezos announced that he would build a 50,000-satellite space data center, Musk immediately plussed with a million-satellite call.

Originally published in the Times Higher Education If you know how ChatGPT works, you won’t be surprised to learn that AI detection filters consider it highly likely that the chatbot had a large hand in writing the US Constitution and the Book of Genesis.

The article was originally published in The Conversation Quantum computing is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get.

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What are the necessary and sufficient factors that lead to the emergence and use of war-winning strategic technologies?

In my role as an Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Purdue University, I partnered with two colleagues with solid experience in military strategy research and education to propose a new methodology for training strategic thinkers and doers.

Online human networks are highly centralized, with a few nodes raking in most connections.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened Ukraine and its supporters with a nuclear attack that will settle the war he started on February 24, 2022.

In the digital era, “discourse power” is real power.

A potential favoring factor for the invasion of Ukraine and the threats made of China to occupy Taiwan could be that International trade clusters cut across political-military alliances.

This module is a sequence of the course From Mass Media to Social Media Theory The history of media research is the history of just a few questions, of which the most salient is “what does media do to us?”

What can we surmise about China’s intentions in the South China Sea?

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WHAT IS, HOW and WHY you should join EUNOMIA?

Summary: Affordance theory, proposed by Gibson and brought to technology research by Norman , proposes that the use of an object is intrinsically determined by its physical shape.

The development of AIs capable of targeting, shooting, and eliminating enemies in seconds has reached the threshold of possibility.

An experiment by Tromholt Morten from the University of Copenhagen published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking suggests that people who gave up Facebook for a week ended (for that time) happier, less lonely, and less depressed than those…

On Friday May 24, 2019 I organize in collaboration with the French Laboratory of Excellence in Creative Industries, the ICA preconference “Riding or Lashing the Waves: Regulating Media for Diversity in a Time of Uncertainty,” to discuss whether regulatory…

Once, Socrates was approached at the local gymnasium by a young Athenian man, seeking the tutoring of the great mind of Attica, the wisest man since Solon.

In collaboration with the Online Masters’ Program in Strategic Communication, I launched the Social Media Analytics Class, which will be available worldwide.

NOTE: In some ways, I am a historian born again as a social scientist.

This article is a companion material to the Course COM 25100 Information, Technology, Society which I teach at Purdue University as a University core class.

This article is a companion material to the courses I teach at Purdue University as a University core class.

This is an introduction to a set of core concepts related to Internet communication for the Course COM 251 Information, Technology, Society which I teach at Purdue University.

This is a tutorial on a set of core concepts related to Internet communication for the courses I teach at Purdue University.