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Past Events

Mar 25, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Troll Wrastling for Beginners: Data-Driven Methods to Decrease Hatred Online

Susan Benesch, Berkman Center Faculty Associate

People hating others isn't new - what's new is that the rest of us are often privy to it, when it's expressed online. This is painful but it's also an opportunity to learn how to…

Mar 18, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Governments Pwn the Web: A Constitutional Right to IT-Security?

Axel Arnbak, Berkman Center & Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy Fellow

Governments hacking into IT-systems makes @axelarnbak wonder: do we need a constitutional right to IT-security?

Mar 11, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

A Roadmap to Cyberpeace

Camille François, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Camille will speak about her current research on cyberwar, cybersecurity, and cyberpeace.

Mar 11, 2014 @ 6:00 PM

How Dungeons & Dragons and Fantasy Prepare You for Law and Life

Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, in conversation with Jonathan Zittrain

A talk and discussion about D&D can be a perfect training ground for law and life. With critic and journalist, Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, http:/…

Mar 5, 2014 @ 6:30 PM

US Launch of *impossible*

with special guests Lily Cole, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Rosemary Leith, Jonathan Zittrain, Judith Donath, and Urs Gasser

On March 5, the Berkman Center will celebrate the US launch of *impossible*. Joining us will be Lily Cole, founder of *impossible* and fashion model, actress, and social…

Mar 4, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

How Disclosure Policies Impact Search in Open Innovation

Karim R. Lakhani, Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School

Most of society’s innovation systems–academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.–are “open” in the sense they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosures amongst…

Mar 3, 2014 @ 5:00 PM

The Emerging Cyber Security Paradigm: How New Innovations Meet Unknown Cyber Needs

Over the past decade Israel has created some of the most innovative cyber security companies in the world today. On March 3, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and JVP…

Feb 21, 2014 @ 4:00 PM

Cyberscholar Working Group at Columbia

This month's presentations include: (1) Ramesh Subramanian on "Old Ideas: BBSs and the Emergence of Online Communities in India" and (2) Brad A. Greenberg on "Rethinking…

Feb 18, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media

with Tricia Wang, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

What does life inside the Great Firewall of China look like? Tricia's talk will reveal a surprising reality.

Feb 4, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

2014 High-Level Conferences on ICT and the Internet: What Do They Mean for the Internet As We Know It?

with Veni Markovski, Internet pioneer, co-founder of bol.bg, and current ICANN vice-president for Russia, CIS, and Eastern Europe

February 4, 2014 at 12:30pm ET Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St., Second Floor Co-Sponsored by the Center for Civic Media In October, President of…

Feb 3, 2014 @ 5:00 PM

Defending an Unowned Internet

Opportunities for Technology, Policy, and Corporations

In the wake of the disclosures about government surveillance and the rise of corporate-run applications and protocols, is the idea of an "unowned" Internet still a credible one?…

Jan 29, 2014 @ 6:00 PM

Cyberscholar Working Group at Yale

This month's presentations include: (1) Balancing Remedies with Notice in the Enforcement of Copyright Licenses; (2) Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Intellectual…

Jan 28, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Robotic Surveillance: Authorship or Intrusion?

with Margot Kaminski, Executive Director, Information Society Project, Yale Law School

Margot will speak about her continuing research on robotic surveillance in light of its pending increase and the implications for U.S. privacy law.

Jan 21, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Internet Skills and Wikipedia's Gender Inequality

with Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw, Northwestern University

Eszter and Aaron will speak about their research on the normal, daily use of the web as well as organization and mobilization within web communities.

Jan 21, 2014 @ 6:00 PM

The First Year of HarvardX: Research Findings to Inform the Future of Online Learning

with Berkman Fellow Justin Reich and more

Based upon data from 400,000 registrants, the researchers will explore the influence of diverse teaching approaches and instructional platforms, highlight the various learning…

Jan 14, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Government as impresario: Emergent public goods and public private partnerships 2.0

with Nicholas Gruen, policy economist, entrepreneur and commentator

Today emergent public goods, like Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia, burgeon on the internet ushering in a new age. But there must exist a panoply of public goods which could be…

Dec 12, 2013 @ 6:00 PM

Cyberscholars Working Group

at MIT

The Cyberscholar Working Group is a forum for fellows and affiliates of MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, Columbia University, and the Berkman Center for Internet …

Dec 10, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Re-Thinking Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Models for the Poor

Sara Boettiger, Global Access in Action Project

IPR drives innovation. But not for the poor. 300 malnourished children die every hour. 80% of Africa farms with a hand-hoe. We can do better.

Dec 3, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia

Jerome Hergueux, Berkman Center Fellow

From Wikipedia to Open Source Software, Peer Production – a large-scale collaborative model of production primarily based on voluntary contributions – is emerging as an…

Nov 20, 2013 @ 7:00 PM

When to Blow the Whistle? A discussion on the role of whistleblowers in society

Hosted by the Allston Ed Portal, Charlie Nesson, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Snowden, Manning, Assange, Ellsberg — the whistleblower — When is that you? When in your life might you be tempted to blow the whistle?