Past Events

The Future of Computing
The Future of Computing
Thursday, October 31, 2019 For 50 years, Moore’s Law has driven revolutionary technological advances that have altered the way we live. We are now reaching the end of Moore’s Law, and with that, the end of conventional, scaling-based computing progress. Beyond conventional CMOS, Boolean logic, a...
The Future of Deep Space Exploration
The Future of Deep Space Exploration
Center for Enterprise, Exploration, and Defense in Space (CEEDS) presents: The Future of Deep Space Exploration The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies hosts a panel discussion on the exciting work being done in the exploration of deep space. The Institute’s Center for Enterprise, Exploration, a...
African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond
African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond
A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “African Security Concerns: Challenges and Opportunities 2020 and Beyond” In the face of African security challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, migration, terrorism, insurgencies, and wars, is diplomacy’s role shifting from its traditional state...
The Next Space Industry: Low Earth Orbit Commercialization
The Next Space Industry: Low Earth Orbit Commercialization
Friday June 21st, 2019 moderated by former NASA Administrator MajGen Charles F. Bolden Jr. As NASA continues to work towards a future in which it is one of many customers in a vibrant space economy, it is critical to understand both the markets that will drive that transition, and the role that gov...
Jerusalem and Washington: A Life in Politics and Diplomacy
Jerusalem and Washington: A Life in Politics and Diplomacy
Zalman Shoval is an Israeli politician and diplomat who was a 4-term member of the Knesset, first representing David Ben-Gurion's Rafi-State List and then the Likud and who served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States during the George H. W. Bush presidency and, later during the Clinton admi...
A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “The Role of Diplomacy in the World’s Future”
A Special Ambassador’s Forum: “The Role of Diplomacy in the World’s Future”
In the face of expanding national, regional, and global challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, outbreaks of endemic diseases, migration, terrorism, insurgencies, and wars, is diplomacy’s role shifting from its traditional statecraft to broader missions? A panel of distinguished U.S....

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' Center for Neurotechnology Studies was proud to co-sponsor the third Neuroscience: Ethics, Legal and Social Issues (NELSI-3) Conference, held on February 25, 2011 at George Mason University.  The topic of the program was Ethical Issues in the Use of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology in National Defense.  Prof. James Giordano, PhD, Vice President for Academic Programs at the Potomac Institute and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies, chaired the conference.

Please click below to watch a video of the conference in its entirety, or scroll down to see a list of timeline indicators for  individual presentations.  Please visit www.nelsi-3.com for full details on the conference.  

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1) Introduction by Prof. James Giordano, PhD: 00:11
2) Welcome by Prof. James Olds, PhD: 03:56
3) Opening Plenary: Towards the Neuro-Future: Challenges and Opportunities by James Canton, PhD: 17:24
4) Can (and Should?) We Regulate Neurosecurity? Lessons from the History of Science, the Military and Regulation by Prof. James Tabery, PhD: 56:38
5) Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense by Prof. Jonathan Moreno, PhD: 93:28
6) Hazards of Translation and Transformation: A Critique of Neuroscience in National Security from Science Studies, Ethics and Human Rights by Prof. Jonathan Marks, MA, BCL (Oxon): 130:05 
7) Neuroethics and National Security: The Promise and Peril of Neuroscience Technology, with a Hopeful Coda by LtCol William Casebeer, USAF, PhD: 158:39
8) The Human Dimension and US National Security: Our Current Challenge, But Greatest Opportunity by Chris Forsythe, PhD: 205:35
9) The Neuroethical Classification of Modifications to Body and Self by Prof. John Shook, PhD: 240:10
10) Neuroscience and Technology in National Security: Toward a Stance of Preparedness and Neuroethics of Prudent Action by Prof. James Giordano, PhD: 268:50
11) Panel Discussion: 304:40