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Oct 2, 2015

Welcome New Fellows: Griffin Boyce and Olivier Alais

By Summer 2015 Interns Michael Rosenbloom and Loren Newman

This post is part of a series featuring interviews with some of members of the 2015-2016 class of Berkman Fellows. Conducted by our 2015 summer interns (affectionately known as …

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Sep 28, 2015

Welcome New Fellows: Dariusz Jemielniak and Rebecca Richman Cohen

By Summer 2015 Interns Sandra Rubinchik and Muira McCammon

This post is part of a series featuring interviews with some of members of the 2015-2016 class of Berkman Fellows. Conducted by our 2015 summer interns (affectionately known as …

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Sep 28, 2015

Berkman Center Launches New Internet Data Dashboard

Dashboard debuts at World Economic Forum meeting in Geneva

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce the launch of the Internet Monitor dashboard, a freely accessible tool that aims to improve…

Sep 17, 2015

Welcome New Fellows: Eldar Haber and Nicola Greco

By Summer 2015 Interns Amy Aixi Zhang and Dario Chaifouroosh

This post is part of a series featuring interviews with some of members of the 2015-2016 class of Berkman Fellows. Conducted by our 2015 summer interns (affectionately known as …

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Sep 15, 2015

Welcome New Fellows: Lana Swartz and Leyla Keser

By Summer 2015 Interns David Eichert and Dennis Redeker

This post is part of a series featuring interviews with some of members of the 2015-2016 class of Berkman Fellows. Conducted by our 2015 summer interns (affectionately known as …

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Sep 11, 2015

Welcome New Fellows: Charlie Ruth Castro and Jason Griffey

By Summer 2015 Interns Uvania Naidoo and Nick Rubin

This post is part of a series featuring interviews with some of members of the 2015-2016 class of Berkman Fellows. Conducted by our 2015 summer interns (affectionately known as …

Sep 10, 2015

Spotlight on the Berkman Question Tool

A simple web tool spurs discussion and buy-in

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has taken the best of online forums and crowdsourcing to offer a simple web tool for online or blended discussion. The Berkman Question…

Sep 9, 2015

Welcome New Fellows: William Li and Mary Gray

By Summer 2015 Interns Achyuth Samudrala and Alyssa Smith

  Q&A with William Li, PhD student in computer science http://people.csail.mit.edu/wli/ …

Sep 3, 2015

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 2016 Annual Conference: Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics

Abstracts due December 1, 2015

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce plans for its 2016 annual conference, entitled: “Big Data,…

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Jul 27, 2015

Project Spotlight: Internet Monitor

A new, customizable dashboard with real-time info about the Net coming soon

Internet Monitor’s mission is to collect and share data about how people all over the world access and use the Internet. This fall the project plans to release a new platform for…

Jul 10, 2015

Berkman Initiative Spotlights Lessons from Ebola outbreak

Global Access in Action (GAiA), an initiative of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, is hosting a workshop today to explore lessons from the recent Ebola…

Jul 7, 2015

Berkman Center Announces 2015-2016 Community

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today announced the fellows, faculty associates, and affiliates who will formally join its community in the 2015…

Jul 2, 2015

John Palfrey on the importance of libraries in the digital information age

By Annie Pruitt

In an age of eBooks, Google, and Smartphones, many have questioned the importance of libraries. John Palfrey ’01, has penned a new book, which he calls “a love letter to libraries…

May 18, 2015

Berkman Buzz: May 18, 2015

Cybersecurity and the Torah, an anti-manifesto for the Internet, sleep and your screen, and more... in this week's Buzz.

May 11, 2015

Berkman Buzz: May 11, 2015

Telepresence robots, fiber networks, Facebook and polarization, and more... in this week's Buzz.

May 4, 2015

Berkman Buzz: May 4, 2015

Tim Berners-Lee, the Confrontation Clause, Rhinobird.tv, and more... in this week's Buzz. 

May 4, 2015

Tim Berners-Lee awarded the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize 2015

On April 29, 2015, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute honored Sir Tim Berners-Lee for his pioneering invention: the World Wide Web.  Berkman Executive Director Urs Gasser delivered…

Apr 21, 2015

Berkman Buzz: April 21, 2015

The failure of Internet.org, smarter machines at work, "security theater" and more... in this week's Buzz.

Apr 10, 2015

Berkman Community Newcomers: Mary-Catherine Lader

Meet Mary-Catherine Lader, Berkman affiliate investigating how digital platforms are changing work.

Apr 9, 2015

Berkman Buzz: April 9, 2015

Youth and digital media, Twitter in Turkey, Google's new robot patent, and more... in this week's Buzz.