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Past Events

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Oct 19, 2010 @ 10:00 AM

Mapping the Russian Blogosphere

Hosted by USIP’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology & Peacebuilding, researchers from the Berkman Center and their collaborators at Morningside Analytics will present…

Oct 19, 2010 @ 12:30 PM

Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia

Joseph Reagle, Berkman Center Fellow

Wikipedia's style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge,…

Oct 18, 2010 @ 11:30 AM

CRCS Seminar: Automated Digital Forensics

Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School

Despite what you may have seen in the movies, today the primary use of digital forensics is to demonstrate the presence of child pornography on the computer systems of suspected…

Oct 12, 2010 @ 12:30 PM

The MoveOn Effect: The Internet's Impact on Political Action?

Dave Karpf, Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow

Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow Dave Karpf discusses his research on the emergence of a new generation of Internet-mediated political…

Oct 5, 2010 @ 12:30 PM

Becoming a Networked Nonprofit

Allison Fine and Beth Kanter

Allison Fine and Beth Kanter will discuss their new book, "The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change."

Oct 4, 2010 @ 11:30 AM

CRCS Seminar: Computational Social Choice: A Decision-theoretic Perspective

Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto

Social choice, an important topic of study for centuries, has recently been the subject of intense investigation and application within computer science. Craig Boutilier of the…

Oct 1, 2010 @ 9:00 AM

Open Video Conference

This October 1 & 2, Open Video Alliance will present the second annual Open Video Conference in New York City. While the OVA focuses on creating and promoting free and open…

Sep 28, 2010 @ 12:30 PM

I'm in the Database, but Nobody Knows

Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research

A statistical database provides statistical information about a population, while maintaining the privacy of individuals in the database. A popular interpretation of this…

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Sep 25, 2010 @ 9:00 AM

Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?

We're pleased to announce that the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard's Berkman Center and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University are co-hosting a…

Sep 21, 2010 @ 12:00 PM

Hacking the Casebook

The H20 Development Team

Traditional law school casebooks are expensive, bulky and stagnant. With the support of the HLS Library, Berkman has been updating our suite of classroom tools, H2O. In this…

Sep 20, 2010 @ 11:30 AM

CRCS Seminar: Kidney Exchange

Alvin Roth, Harvard Business School

Alvin Roth will discuss the history of organized kidney exchange in the last few years, and how the issues of market design have changed as kidney exchange has started to become…

Sep 14, 2010 @ 12:30 PM

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

Eric von Hippel, Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and Berkman Center Faculty Associate

Both innovation by individual users and open collaborative innovation is increasingly competing with and may displace producer innovation in many parts of the economy. This…

Sep 7, 2010 @ 6:00 PM

Berkman Center Fall 2010 Open House

Come to our Open House to meet Berkman faculty, fellows, and staff and to learn about the Center's current activities and ways you can get involved...

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Aug 26, 2010 @ 9:00 AM

VRM + CRM 2010

The first VRM+CRM workshop will take place on 26-27 August, at Harvard Law School. It’s free. The purpose is to get VRM and CRM developers and other interested parties (such as…

Aug 3, 2010 @ 12:30 PM

Art of noise: Mobile social media and attention

Kate Crawford, University of New South Wales

Kate Crawford of the University of New South Wales will present at the Berkman Center's Tuesday Luncheon Series, on 'mobile social spheres' and demands on attention.

Jul 27, 2010 @ 12:30 PM

The Tension between User-centered Design and E-government Services

Nalini Kotamraju, University of Twente, Netherlands

E-government services throughout the world have been plagued by lower than expected rates of adoption by individuals and institutions. A lack of user centricity in e-government…

Jul 20, 2010 @ 12:30 PM

Entrepreneurship: where are all the women and minorities?

Vivek Wadhwa

Vivek Wadhwa will discuss his research on the backgrounds and motivations of entrepreneurs; what makes them successful; what inhibits entrepreneurs; the characteristics of…

Jul 19, 2010 @ 9:00 AM

ICT and Civic Engagement in Nigeria: the 2011 Presidential Election and Beyond

This symposium in Abuja, Nigeria will stimulate discussion of, engagement with, and reflection upon the role and uses of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in…

Jul 13, 2010 @ 12:30 PM

Crowdsourcing Crisis Mapping

Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships at Ushahidi

Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships at Ushahidi, will present on his work on crowdsourcing crisis mapping. This event will be webcast live at 12…

Jul 5, 2010 @ 9:00 AM

Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) 2010

At the Oxford Internet Institute

The Summer Doctoral Programme brings together doctoral students engaged in dissertation research relating to the Internet and other information and communication technologies in…