Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
February 11, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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Next week, we've got a very special event on Wednesday, 2/18 at 5PM in the Ames Coutroom at Harvard Law School -- Peter Galison, Robb Moss, Jonathan Zittrain, Martha Minow, and Jack Goldsmith will join us for a roundtable discussion following a screening of  "Secrecy", a film about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy directed by Peter Galison and Robb Moss. A must-see for those interested in surveillance, public policy, open knowledge, and more. Please join us!

[1] [THURSDAY 2/12/09] Chris Riley, Public Policy Counsel at Free Press, on present and future Congressional and Commission net neutrality proceedings.(http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/02/riley)

[2] [TUESDAY 2/17/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "A New Era of Computing: The Opportunities and Challenges of Cloud-Based Software and Services" with Lisa Tanzi of Microsoft (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/02/tanzi)

[3] [WEDNESDAY 2/18/09] Secrecy: Film Screening and Roundtable Peter Galison, Robb Moss, Jonathan Zittrain, Martha Minow, and Jack Goldsmith (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/02/secrecy)

[4] [THURSDAY 2/19/09] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars with Gene Koo on Video Games and Pro-Social Development, Nick Montfort on Platform Studies and the Atari VCS (Atari 2600), and Eden Medina on Cybernetics and Revolution (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/02/harvard)

Spring Preview

[1] On Wednesday, 2/25 @ 12:30 PM at Berkman, we'll kick off our inaugural Law Lab Speaker Series. The first event will feature Ashifi Gogo, social entrepreneur and founder of mPedigree.com, who will talk about innovations w/ mobile phone technology in the developing world. https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2009/02/gogo

[2] Thursday, 2/26 @ 12:30 PM in Pound Hall 100, open access researcher and advocate Peter Suber will be in Cambridge to discuss the future of open access and more: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/02/suber

[3] Monday, 3/2 @ 12:30PM at Berkman, the Digital Natives Forum Series returns with Dr. David Rose, who will speak on "The future is in the margins: modern technology, education, and public policy". https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5048

[4] Tuesday, 3/17 @ 5:00PM on the campus of HLS, David Post - most recently the author of "Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace" - will discuss his latest work.  https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5017

[THURSDAY] CHRIS RILEY of FREE PRESS
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2/12/09, 12:00 PM ET, Griswold Hall 110, Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the HLS Journal of Law and Technology

In August of 2008, the Federal Communications Commission concluded its lengthy investigation into Comcast's high-speed Internet service practices with the release of an order declaring Comcast's practice of RST-packet BitTorrent blocking to be illegal and requiring Comcast to use only non-discriminatory network management practices. Comcast complied substantially with the order's obligations, but many questions remain open, with this specific proceeding and with the future of net neutrality policy in the FCC and in Congress. Free Press has led and will continue to lead the charge to promote non-discrimination as the foremost principle of net neutrality. Chris' presentation will begin with a brief overview of Free Press, and a brief history of the Comcast proceeding and other net neutrality legal efforts, and will then dive into a substantive policy discussion of present and future Congressional and Commission net neutrality proceedings.

More at: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/02/riley

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on A NEW ERA OF CLOUD COMPUTING
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2/17/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).

Topic: A New Era of Computing: The Opportunities and Challenges of Cloud-Based Software and Services
Guest: Lisa Tanzi of Microsoft

The IT industry is at the cusp of a new era of computing - one in which cloud computing will play a central role.  Lisa will highlight key innovations that are driving this new computing era, the essential roles of cloud computing and software (i.e. software + services) in it, and the benefits it will provide.  She also will also focus on several legal and policy issues that industry and governments will need to grapple with in this new era, including the movement of data across borders (and associated privacy and law enforcement issues), security of information, and the application of traditional telecommunications rules in a world where computing and communications technologies are converging.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/02/tanzi

[WEDNESDAY] SECRECY: FILM SCREENING AND ROUNDTABLE (w/ ZITTRAIN, GALISON, GOLDSMITH, MINOW, and MOSS)
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2/18/09, 5:00-7:00 PM ET, Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

The Berkman Center, Peter Galison, and Robb Moss present a screening of the film "Secrecy", a film about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy, followed by a roundtable discussion with professors

Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University
Martha Minowa, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Please join us!

About Secrecy

In a single recent year the U.S. classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress. We live in a world where the production of secret knowledge dwarfs the production of open knowledge. Depending on whom you ask, government secrecy is either the key to victory in our struggle against terrorism, or our Achilles heel. But is so much secrecy a bad thing?

Secrecy saves: counter-terrorist intelligence officers recall with fury how a newspaper article describing National Security Agency abilities directly led to the loss of information that could have avoided the terrorist killing of 241 soldiers in Beirut late in October 1983. Secrecy guards against wanton nuclear proliferation, against the spread of biological and chemical weapons. Secrecy is central to our ability to wage an effective war against terrorism.

Secrecy corrupts. From extraordinary rendition to warrant-less wiretaps and Abu Ghraib, we have learned that, under the veil of classification, even our leaders can give in to dangerous impulses. Secrecy increasingly hides national policy, impedes coordination among agencies, bloats budgets and obscures foreign accords; secrecy throws into the dark our system of justice and derails the balance of power between the executive branch and the rest of government.

This film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By focusing on classified secrets, the government's ability to put information out of sight if it would harm national security, Secrecy explores the tensions between our safety as a nation, and our ability to function as a democracy.

   * WINNER of the Special Jury Award for Documentary Features, Independent Film Festival Boston
   * WINNER, Best Documentary, Newport International Film Festival

More at: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/02/secrecy

[THURSDAY] CYBERSCHOLARS at BERKMAN
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2/19/09, 5:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required (ltsui@cyber.harvard.edu).

The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School to discuss their ongoing research. Each session is focused on the peer review and discussion of current projects submitted by a presenter.

This week: Gene Koo on Video Games and Pro-Social Development, Nick Montfort on Platform Studies and the Atari VCS (Atari 2600), and Eden Medina on Cybernetics and Revolution.

More at: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/02/harvard

DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.

-Conversations with Judith Donath, John Palfrey, David Hornik, and Esra'a Al Shafei can all be found on our blogpost Making (digital) airwaves:
http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5052

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