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- ↑ “In profile: Kenneth Oye: A political scientist aims to help governments assess the potential risks of new technologies” - MIT News – August 11, 2011 http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/profile-oye-0811.html
- ↑ "2018 Spring Conferment of Decoration on Foreign Nationals" (PDF).
- ↑ http://web.mit.edu/polisci/people/faculty/kenneth-oye.shtml
