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BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // January 5, 2011

[Tuesday 1/11] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: Tim Wu on THE MASTER SWITCH, author and Professor of Law at Columbia University (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/01/wu)

[Wednesday 1/12] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group, featuring Brian Kernighan on "What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?"; Yanni Loukissas on "Visualizing Human Presence Tools for the Social Study of Human, Remote, and Autonomous Operations"; and Bryan Choi on "The Anonymous Internet"


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE MASTER SWITCH
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1/11/11, 12:15pm ET, Harvard Law School **Please note earlier start time for this date only**
RSVP is required via the form on the event page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/01/wu

Topic: The Master Switch
Guests: Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch and Professor of Law at Columbia University

Tim Wu presents his widely acclaimed new book THE MASTER SWITCH:  The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. "A Masterpiece" - Lawrence Lessig.   "A ripping yarn" - The Atlantic

About Tim

Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate and author of The Master Switch.  He is a professor at Columbia Law School, the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine, and in 2007 Wu was listed as one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine.

Tim Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he has also written about copyright, international trade, and the study of law-breaking. He previously worked for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry in Silicon Valley, and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.

Wu has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Forbes, Slate magazine, and others. He can sometimes be found at Waterfront Bicycles, and he once worked at Hoo's Dumplings.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page:http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/01/wu


[WEDNESDAYS] CYBERSCHOLARS
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1/12/11, 6:00pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St. 2nd Floor
RSVP is required to ashar@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 University to discuss their ongoing research.

This month's presenters will include:Brian Kernighan on "What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?"; Yanni Loukissas on "Visualizing Human Presence Tools for the Social Study of Human, Remote, and Autonomous Operations"; and Bryan Choi on "The Anonymous Internet".

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2011/01/berkman


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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1/17: The GovData Project: Help Us Make Government Data Accessible! // IQSS at Harvard (http://www.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/2459)


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 athttp://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.

-Berkman Luncheon Series: Jim Lucchese on Application Developers and the Future of Music (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/12/lucches...)

-Radio Berkman 171: Wikileaks and the Information Wars (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/12/08/radio-berkman-171/)

-Radio Berkman 172: The Evolutionary Biases of the Technium (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/12/16/radio-berkman-172-t...)


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