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BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 21, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [TUESDAY 4/27/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Human Computation" with Luis von Ahn of Carnegie Mellon University (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/04/vonahn)

[2] [WEDNESDAY 4/28] Web of Ideas: "The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion" with David Weinberger in conversation with John Hagel III (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/powerofpull)

[3] [THURSDAY 4/29] "Taming Multiplicity in the Post-Print Era: Law Librarians, Legal Scholarship, and Access to the Law" with Richard A. Danner, Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor Of Law at Duke Law School (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/danner)

[4] [FRIDAY-SATURDAY4/30-5/1] ROFLCon II at MIT (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/roflcon)

[SAVE THE DATE 6/28-30] You are invited to the COMMUNIA 2010 Conference on "University in Cyberspace", taking place in Torino, Italy. Visit http://www.communia2010.org/ to learn more and sign up for the announcement list.


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on HUMAN COMPUTATION
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4/27/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Human Computation
Guest: Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University

From Luis:

This talk is about harnessing human time and energy to address problems that computers cannot yet solve. Although computers have advanced dramatically in many respects over the last 50 years, they still do not possess the basic conceptual intelligence or perceptual capabilities that most humans take for granted. By leveraging human skills and abilities in a novel way, I want to solve large-scale computational problems and collect training data to teach computers many of the basic human talents. To this end, I treat human brains as processors in a distributed system, each performing a small part of a massive computation. Unlike computer processors, however, humans require an incentive in order to become part of a collective computation. Among other things, I show how to use online games as a means to encourage participation in the process.

About Luis:

Professor Luis von Ahn works in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests include encouraging people to do work for free, as well as catching and thwarting cheaters in online environments. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, and a Sloan Research Fellowship. He has been named one of the 50 Best Minds in Science by Discover Magazine, one of the "Brilliant 10" scientists of 2006 by Popular Science Magazine, one of the 50 most influential people in technology by Silicon.com, and one of the Top Innovators in the Arts and Sciences by Smithsonian Magazine.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/04/vonahn


[WEDNESDAY] WEB OF IDEAS on THE POWER OF PULL
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4/28/10, 6:00 PM ET, Location TBA
RSVP is required via the form on the website: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/powerofpull

Topic: The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
Guest: David Weinberger in conversation with John Hagel III

Join us for a discussion on The Power of Pull, a new book from authors John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison on how "pull" can be more systematically used to shape serendipity.

As part of the Web of Ideas discussion series at the Berkman Center, David Weinberger will interview John Hagel III on The Power of Pull, and offer a deep dive into many of the themes addressed in the book.

From the publisher:

THE POWER OF PULL:  How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (Basic Books; April 2010 by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison) goes beyond the surface events that are often distractions and examines the deep forces reshaping our world. Drawing on stories and examples from around the world, the authors show us how pull can be more systematically used to shape serendipity. They show that what we thought we knew about pull is just the tip of the iceberg, obscuring the real power of pull. Pull can bring us together in new ways to drive more rapid performance improvement (in such diverse arenas as extreme surfing and large scale business networks emerging in China) and provide powerful platforms to more fully achieve our potential. The authors also provide us with pragmatic migration paths to aid us in getting from where we are today to where we need to be in a world of pull.

The book brings a tight, logical, structure to this transformed world. The authors identify and explain three waves of change, three levels of pull that are becoming central to success and three elements of the journey we all need to make in order to understand and master pull.

For more information, see: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/powerofpull


[THURSDAY] TAMING MULTIPLICITY IN THE POST PRINT ERA
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4/29/10, 12:30 PM ET, Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library
RSVP requested http://tinyurl.com/dannertalk
Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library, the Office for Scholarly Communication, and the Berkman Center

Topic: Taming Multiplicity in the Post-Print Era: Law Librarians, Legal Scholarship, and Access to the Law
Guest: Richard A. Danner, Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor Of Law at Duke Law School

Professor Richard Danner has been at the forefront of the open access to legal scholarship movement and has also recently written about the role of academic law librarians in supporting faculty scholarship. He will discuss "Taming Multiplicity in the Post-Print Era: Law Librarians, Legal Scholarship, and Access to the Law".

See the following for examples of his scholarship that might be of interest:

  * http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2071/
  * http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/working_papers/1/
  * http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/1698/

For more information, see: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/danner


[FRIDAY-SATURDAY] ROFLCON II
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4/30-5/1/10, MIT, Cambridge, MA

From the ROFLCon website:

"Another two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled. Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel."

For more information, see: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/roflcon


[SAVE THE DATE] COMMUNIA 2010 CONFERENCE: UNIVERSITY IN CYBERSPACE
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6/28-30/10, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

Universities are entrusted with the increasingly important responsibility of creating, sharing, and fostering use of knowledge on behalf of society, and to that end, are the recipients of tremendous investments of time, money, space, authority and freedom. Universities have embraced this role in diverse fashions, varying by tradition, period, and discipline, but we now ask them to go further. As we progress ever more deeply into a networked age, our knowledge institutions are faced with concomitant opportunities. They are challenged by society to become a driving force to create and disseminate knowledge - using innovative, effective, and dynamic approaches - derived from and for the networked world.

The COMMUNIA 2010 International Conference will provide a venue for exploring these points, with the twofold objective of defining a shared vision of the future of universities as knowledge institutions and of identifying the main steps leading from vision to reality.

To learn more and sign up for the announcements list, please visit http://www.communia2010.org/.


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 4/21: ISD: Digital Power and Its Discontents // Georgetown University (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=359&EventID=75512)

[2] 4/22: Jenkins' Farewell // MIT Communications Forum (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/jenkins_farewell.html)

[3] 4/22-24: MIT Comparative Media Studies 10th Anniversary (http://cms.mit.edu/anniversary/)

[4] 4/23: Patent Policy and Innovation // Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law (http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom/workshops_conferences/upcoming_events.html)

[5] 4/27: Privacy Reconsidered in the Age of Facebook // ACLU of Massachusetts (http://aclum.org/events/index.php)

[6] 4/28-30: Futureweb (http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/)

[7] 4/27: Internet Security, Internet Freedom // Center for Information Technology Policy (http://citp.princeton.edu/internet-security-internet-freedom/)

[8] 4/28-4/30: FutureWeb: WWWhere Are We Heading? // North Carolina (http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/)

[9] 5/4: NERCOMP: Copyright and IP for Image Use (http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=6005)

[10] 5/6-7: Global Voices Citizen Media Summit // Santiago, Chile (http://summit2010.globalvoicesonline.org/)

[11] 5/6-7: Politics of Open Source Conference // UMass (http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net/)

[12] 5/11: Free Press Summit // Washington, DC (http://summit.freepress.net/)

[13] 6/8: Intelligence Squared Debate: The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated (featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain) (http://intelligencesquaredus.org/index.php/debates/cyber-war-threat-has-been-grossly-exaggerated/)


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.

-Berkman Luncheon Series: SHAI RESHEF on "Educating the Many, Not the Few" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/04/shai)

-Radio Berkman 149: Freedom of the Internet with MICHAEL SLABY and DAVID WEINBERGER (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman149)

-BRAD SMITH (MS General Counsel) on "Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Legal Profession" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/04/smith)

-Berkman Luncheon Series: Mikko Välimäki on A Start-up Perspective on Open Standards and Patents (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/04/mikko)


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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
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6/28-6/30: COMMUNIA Conference 2010: Universities & the commons/cyberspace (http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5608)


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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. For more information, visit http://cyber.harvard.edu.