Marshall Van Alstyne, Associate Professor at Boston University and Research Scientist at MIT
Property rights provide incentives to create information but they also provide incentives to hoard it prior to the award of protection. Marshall Van Alstyne will propose a…
Cameran Ashraf, Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at California State University, Pomona & Brett Solomon, recently Campaign Director at Avaaz.org and Executive Director at GetUp.org.au
With Iran as a case study, this presentation will explore the role new communication technologies are playing in the post-election unrest, how people outside of Iran are helping…
Ethan and Hal will present their prototype system to retrieve, tag, cluster and analyze blog and newspaper data, and discuss how the Media Cloud platform will be used in our…
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University fondly invites you to attend our third annual celebration of our friends, affiliates and partners on the left coast…
Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute, Behavioral Sciences Program
Sam Bowles will discuss how an evolutionary model and computer simulations will show how systems of property rights might respond to the challenges of the weightless economy.
Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute
Petabytes of data about human movements, transactions, and communication patterns are continuously being generated by everyday technologies such as mobile phones and credit cards…
David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction for understanding the dominance of information as concept, metaphor, etc., suggesting that we leaped into …
If a Companion were to become the internet repository for someone’s whole life, to be a “cognitive prosthesis” for dealing with their own life’s records, what safeguards are…
The Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group will convene at Yale University. This workshop offers a forum for debating the signal claim of Matthew Hindman that digital…
Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law & Jake Shapiro, Executive Director, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
Ellen and Jake Shapiro lead a discussion on how within the broader story of media transformation generally, there’s an important role played by public broadcasting as it also…
Jeff will introduce describes Aura, a family of programing languages, which integrate functional programming, access control via authorization logic, automatic audit logging, and…
Elizabeth Goodman, UC Berkeley School of Information
Elizabeth Goodman proposes that discussing how urban gardeners build, maintain, and understand their relationships to each other and to their walls will help us rethink this often…
Experiments in Estrangement at the Intersection of Social Science, Art, Design, Public Media and the Digital Humanities
Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through a dynamic visualization of stories, data, photos and videos recorded…
The Berkman Center at Harvard University, in coordination with the Center for Research on Computation and Society, is putting together a Ruby on Rails workshop for women on…
As with earlier Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) workshops, this is a free unconference, organized on the open space model. Participants choose the topics, move those topics…
a book talk with Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
By now the perils of posting indiscreet photographs or information on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace are well known -- jobs are lost or denied, reputations…
John Clippinger, Urs Gasser, and Oliver Goodenough
The Berkman Center Law Lab is a project devoted to investigating and harness the varied forces — evolutionary, social, psychological, neurological and economic — that shape the…
David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction for understanding the dominance of information as concept, metaphor, etc., suggesting that we leaped into …
Television recorders are going online. Device manufacturers are starting to produce consumer devices and software that can be connected to Internet at consumers' homes. New models…
Amartya Sen, Michael Spence, Yochai Benkler, Clotilde Fonseca
Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Michael Spence joined Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca in a public discussion of the role…
