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Past Events

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Feb 3, 2009 @ 12:30 PM

ISTTF: Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies

John Palfrey, danah boyd, Dena Sacco, Laura DeBonis

John Palfrey, danah boyd, Dena Sacco, Laura DeBonis, directors of the recently concluded Internet Safety Technical Task Force, discuss the findings and recommendations from the…

Jan 31, 2009 @ 8:00 PM

Information Superhighway Four

Information Superhighway is Boston's monthly party gathering hackers, activists, artists, designers, nonprofits, startups, academics and general geekery to hang out and connect…

Jan 28, 2009 @ 5:30 PM

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group

This month's installment of Cyberscholars will feature "Youth online: designing for participation and collaboration" - Andrés Monroy-Hernández (MIT) / "Participatory Media for…

Jan 27, 2009 @ 12:30 PM

Mapping Globalization

Ethan Zuckerman, Berkman Fellow

Berkman Fellow Ethan Zuckerman presented on how understanding globalization requires new kinds of maps - maps of flow of bits, atoms and ideas.

Jan 20, 2009 @ 12:45 PM

The Long Tail of Gadgets - How Open Source Hardware is Enabling Bottom Up Innovation in Electronics

Peter Semmelhack of Bug Labs

Peter Semmelhack of Bug Labs will present on open source hardware and innovation...

Jan 13, 2009 @ 12:30 PM

Enterprise 2.0: How Organizations are Exploiting Web 2.0 Technologies and Philosophies

Andrew McAfee, Harvard Business School

In this talk Andrew will give examples of Enterprise 2.0, folding them into a simple model intended to communicate the different categories of benefits conferred.

Event
Dec 23, 2008 @ 12:30 PM

Watching Google AdWords: The Mysterious Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain

Hal Roberts

Google's AdWords system serves ads alongside about a quarter of all web traffic. In the process of serving those ads, Google actively processes the user browsing data in order to…

Dec 16, 2008 @ 12:30 PM

The Open Knowledge Commons

Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons

This talk with Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, will introduce the OKC, a new organization born out of the Open Content Alliance and dedicated to…

Event
Dec 12, 2008 @ 6:30 PM

The Commons: Celebrating accomplishments, discerning futures

Jamie Boyle, Lawrence Lessig, Joi Ito, Molly S. Van Houweling, and Jonathan Zittrain

Creative Commons and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society present "The Commons: Celebrating accomplishments, discerning futures" tonight.

Event Series

Internet & Politics 2008: Moving People and Ideas

Internet technologies—whether deployed to entice voters, raise money, recruit and organize campaign workers, or coax voters to the polls—now infuse every step of the electoral…

Event
Dec 9, 2008 @ 12:30 PM

Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Berkman Fellow

Berkman Fellow Melanie Dulong de Rosnay will discuss the Copyright for Librarians project, which aims, in partnership with eIFL.net, to develop a distance learning program on…

Event
Nov 25, 2008 @ 12:30 PM

The Blogging Revolution: Going online in repressive regimes

Antony Loewenstein

In 2007, Australian journalist, author and blogger Antony Loewenstein traveled to Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China to investigate how the net was challenging…

Event
Nov 24, 2008 @ 4:00 PM

Participatory Governance: In open source communities, companies and government

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a Visiting Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, where he is involved in multi-disciplinary research and teaching activities focused on how…

Nov 18, 2008 @ 12:30 PM

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

Professor Michael Heller of Columbia Law School

Michael Heller presents at the Tuesday Luncheon Series...

Nov 17, 2008 @ 2:30 PM

The Future of Radio and Digital Music

Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder of Pandora

Meet Tim Westergren, Founder of Pandora

Nov 14, 2008 @ 12:00 PM

Craig Newmark

Founder of Craigslist

Craig Newmark gave an informal talk at the Berkman Center on his current work.

Nov 13, 2008 @ 6:00 PM

"The Secret Lives of Robots.txt" / "The Ethical Visions of Copyright Law" / Yale University Libraries, Digital Technology..."

Joris van Hoboken, James Grimmelmann, Charles Cronin and Melanie Dulong de Rosnay

Event
Nov 12, 2008 @ 2:00 PM

The Google-Publishers Copyright Lawsuit Settlement

Join Jeffrey Cunard, one of the lead counsel for McGraw Hill and other publishers in their landmark copyright lawsuit against Google for its Google Library book search project, as…

Nov 12, 2008 @ 6:00 PM

Second Life: Open Education and Virtual Worlds

Charles and Rebecca Nesson

Professor Charles Nesson and Rebecca Nesson will introduce and present on Second Life in the context of Open Education.

Nov 11, 2008 @ 12:30 PM

Open Source at Microsoft: Opportunity or Threat?

Bryan Kirschner, Director of Open Source Strategy and Mario Madden, Open Source Licensing Counsel at Microsoft

Bryan and Mario will discuss what expect from Microsoft and its work in the open source field in the future.