This month's cyberscholars will feature Brian Kernighan on "What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?"; Yanni Loukissas on "Visualizing Human Presence Tools for the…
Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York will discuss the recently released Berkman Center report on "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and…
Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School are pleased to invite you to a special reception and event on the Stanford campus, featuring four TED-style talks drawn from the…
Tim Wu presents his widely acclaimed new book THE MASTER SWITCH: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. This event will be webcast live at 12:15PM ET today.
In this talk, The Echo Nest CEO Jim Lucchese will discuss the specific needs and vast potential of the growing music app development community, citing plenty of examples of new…
Driven by the proliferation of accessible music- and video-production software and the connective possibilities of the social web, public culture is being remade in the wake of …
Drawing from the experience of the elmcity case study, John Udell will explore what these Fourth R principles are, why they're hard for most people to understand, how we can teach…
Mica Pollock, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; The OneVille Project
Mica Pollock, an anthropologist of education and Somerville parent, will share her early thoughts on the OneVille effort to understand and improve a city’s ecosystem of…
As a result of increasing spam, DDoS attacks, cybercrime, and data exfiltration from corporate and government sites, there have been multiple calls for an Internet architecture…
Toshie Takahashi on "Japanese Youths, Mobile Phones, and Social Media"; C.W. Anderson on "Textual Tunnel-Hops and Narrative Chutes-and-Ladders: The HTML Link as an Uncertain…
Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College
There has been an explosion of web-enabled innovations around consumption sharing and extra-market exchange in order to reduce footprint. At the cutting-edge people are turning to…
Prof. Alex `Sandy’ Pentland, MIT Human Dynamics Lab
We have developed robust models of how social network dynamics shape human behavior. These models are constructed by use of data collected by my research group’s unique `reality…
John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School & Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director
On the occasion of his appointment as the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, John Palfrey will give a lecture entitled, "The Path of Legal Information."
Kim Dulin & David Weinberger, co-directors of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School
The co-directors of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School -- Kim Dulin and David Weinberger -- along with members of the Lab will demonstrate their lead project…
R. David Hosp, Goodwin Procter LLP & Ed Weiss, New England Sports Ventures
The Berkman Center's Cyberlaw Clinic and Harvard Law School's Journal of Law and Technology present a conversation about 2008's landmark "Cablevision" case, in which the Second…
Dave Rand, Berkman Fellow & Research Scientist at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
In this talk Dave Rand will describe how to go about designing and running experiments using Mechanical Turk, some successful experiments that have been run (mostly involving…
Large volumes of sensitive data are currently collected by an array of agencies, companies, and other organizations. While these data clearly hold great potential for analysis,…
John Chory and Susan Mazur, Partners at WilmerHale Venture Group
John Chory and Susan Mazur will discuss issues affecting startup companies. In their experience, Founders of companies often have early sins of omission or commission which…
