J. Robert Oppenheimer

The 2024 IAS Public Policy Lecture saw Margrethe Vestager, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age, discuss lessons that can be drawn from the life and legacy of past Director J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947–66) in the age of large digital platforms and artificial intelligence.

On April 9, Margrethe Vestager, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age, delivered the 2024 IAS Public Policy Lecture. Her talk focused on three things that past IAS Director J. Robert Oppenheimer can tell us about technology. During the lecture, Vestager also announced that the European Commission is opening an investigation into Chinese wind-turbine suppliers.

April 2022 saw Hollywood come to the Institute as filming for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer biopic took place on campus. This article, featuring comments from Members and Visitors across all four IAS Schools, provides insight into what it was like to share the campus with the production team and highlights our community's reactions to the film.

Inspired by the release of Christoper Nolan's biopic Oppenheimer, this interview highlights the diverse research taking place across all four IAS schools and how the influence of leading figures from IAS history, such as Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, is still felt at the Institute today.

IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg "walks in Oppenheimer’s shoes." In an interview with NJ.com, he discusses how, in the current age of AI, the role for the Institute that Oppenheimer helped to carve out is needed "as much as ever."

The life and legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, past IAS Director (1947–66), is the subject of a new biopic, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy in the title role. A number of scenes from the film were shot on the Institute campus.