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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University warmly invites you to attend our third annual celebration of our friends, affiliates and partners on the left coast.
When: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:30pm PT
Where: Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043
What: Talk by Pro...f. Jonathan Zittrain on "Minds for sale", followed by reception
Who: Anyone and everyone who's interested in the work of the Berkman Center, including all our friends and family in the Bay Area
Why: Because we miss you!
RSVP Requested via this form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?
Please share this announcement with friends, colleagues, and others who may find the work of the Berkman Center of interest.
Jonathan Zittrain on "Minds for Sale"
Cloud computing is not just for computing anymore: you can now find as much mindshare as you can afford out in the cloud, too. A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace. What are some of the issues arising as armies of thinkers are recruited by the thousands and millions? A fascinating (and non-scare-mongering) view is offered of a future in which nearly any mental act can be bought and sold.
Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000. He is a visiting Professor at Stanford Law School during the Fall 2009 semester.
About the Berkman Center
The Berkman Center was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.
Event announcement: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
When: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:30pm PT
Where: Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043
What: Talk by Pro...f. Jonathan Zittrain on "Minds for sale", followed by reception
Who: Anyone and everyone who's interested in the work of the Berkman Center, including all our friends and family in the Bay Area
Why: Because we miss you!
RSVP Requested via this form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?
Please share this announcement with friends, colleagues, and others who may find the work of the Berkman Center of interest.
Jonathan Zittrain on "Minds for Sale"
Cloud computing is not just for computing anymore: you can now find as much mindshare as you can afford out in the cloud, too. A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace. What are some of the issues arising as armies of thinkers are recruited by the thousands and millions? A fascinating (and non-scare-mongering) view is offered of a future in which nearly any mental act can be bought and sold.
Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000. He is a visiting Professor at Stanford Law School during the Fall 2009 semester.
About the Berkman Center
The Berkman Center was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.
Event announcement: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
Time:Wednesday, 18 November 2009 18:30
Location:Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View CA
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
By now the perils of posting indiscrete photographs or information on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace are well known—jobs are lost or denied, reputations diminished, and families destroyed by a single click. But the problem is far greater than this, argues Viktor Mayer-Schönberger in DELETE: The Virtue... of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Publication date: October 2009).
DELETE argues that in our quest for perfect digital memories where we can store everything from recipes and family photographs to work emails and personal information, we’ve put ourselves in danger of losing a very human quality—the ability and privilege of forgetting. Our digital memories have become double-edged swords—we expect people to “remember” information that is stored in their computers, yet we also may find ourselves wishing to “forget” inappropriate pictures and mis-addressed emails. And, as Mayer-Schönberger demonstrates, it is becoming harder and harder to “forget” these things as digital media becomes more accessible and portable and the lines of ownership blur (see the recent Facebook controversy over changes to their user agreement).
Mayer-Schönberger examines the technology that’s facilitating the end of forgetting—digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software—and proposes an ingeniously simple solution: expiration dates on information.
Join the Berkman Center for a provocative talk and discussion on Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's newest publication Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age.
More: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
DELETE argues that in our quest for perfect digital memories where we can store everything from recipes and family photographs to work emails and personal information, we’ve put ourselves in danger of losing a very human quality—the ability and privilege of forgetting. Our digital memories have become double-edged swords—we expect people to “remember” information that is stored in their computers, yet we also may find ourselves wishing to “forget” inappropriate pictures and mis-addressed emails. And, as Mayer-Schönberger demonstrates, it is becoming harder and harder to “forget” these things as digital media becomes more accessible and portable and the lines of ownership blur (see the recent Facebook controversy over changes to their user agreement).
Mayer-Schönberger examines the technology that’s facilitating the end of forgetting—digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software—and proposes an ingeniously simple solution: expiration dates on information.
Join the Berkman Center for a provocative talk and discussion on Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's newest publication Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age.
More: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
A book talk with Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Time:Wednesday, 07 October 2009 18:00
Location:Pound Hall Room 200, Harvard Law School
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Join Berkman Center Research Associate Tim Hwang and Research Assistant Catherine White for a session open to all to discuss this year's theme: One.Web For all.
Ideas, brainstorming - anyone interested is welcome. Please RSVP to this Facebook page or by emailing the Berkman Center at cwhite AT cyber.law.harvard.edu with OWD in the subject header.
To be held at Harvard Law School, Lewis International Law Center, Room 202.
Time:Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:30
Location:Harvard Law School, Lewis International Law Center, Room 202.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Professors Michael Spence and Amartya Sen will join leading Information and Communication Technology experts Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca in a public discussion of the role of communication and ICTs in human development, growth and poverty reduction. What has changed, been learned, not been learned, needs to be ...learned, needs to be done most urgently?
Sponsored by the International Development Research Centre, hosted by the Berkman Center, with media partner Global Voices Online.
More information: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
Sponsored by the International Development Research Centre, hosted by the Berkman Center, with media partner Global Voices Online.
More information: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
Amartya Sen, Michael Spence, Yochai Benkler, Clotilde Fonseca
Time:Wednesday, 23 September 2009 19:00
Location:Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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The Berkman Center is looking for a smart and savvy and Financial/Administrative Associate to join our core team and contribute to our Law Lab project. Like with all of our positions, we're looking ...
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
The Cluetrain Manifesto, posted in April, 1999, immediately became a touchstone in the digital culture wars. Its four authors – Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger - denounced the mainstream media's portrayal of the Web as an extension of business-as-usual into a medium cheaper than paper a...nd TV time. No, said Cluetrain in 95 "theses" (a number chosen for its resonant overstatement), millions of people weren't flocking to the Web simply because they so loved online catalog shopping. The Web was a place where each individual had a voice, and each of those voices could connect with any and every other voice. The Web is a conversation. And -- in Cluetrain's most famous formulation -- so are networked markets.
Cluetrain.com and the subsequent book of that name are polemics. They express anger at the attempt of the old regime to co-opt the Web and joy at the possibility of building a new set of human connections, free of the dehumanization of the Mass Age. But, that was ten years ago. The Web has gone from millions to over a billion, from frontier to settled land, from unnumbered to Web 2.0, from home pages to Facebook, from laptops to iPhones, from email to Twitter. Entire industries and institutions have collapsed, and many more have been transformed. Spam, identify theft, cyber-bullying and killers leaping straight out of Craigslist are on the scene, as well as Wikipedia, a gift economy, and the online politics of yes-we-can.
On the tenth anniversary of The Cluetrain Manifesto, how's all that freedom, that cyberutopianism, that Internet exceptionalism working out for you?
More: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
Cluetrain.com and the subsequent book of that name are polemics. They express anger at the attempt of the old regime to co-opt the Web and joy at the possibility of building a new set of human connections, free of the dehumanization of the Mass Age. But, that was ten years ago. The Web has gone from millions to over a billion, from frontier to settled land, from unnumbered to Web 2.0, from home pages to Facebook, from laptops to iPhones, from email to Twitter. Entire industries and institutions have collapsed, and many more have been transformed. Spam, identify theft, cyber-bullying and killers leaping straight out of Craigslist are on the scene, as well as Wikipedia, a gift economy, and the online politics of yes-we-can.
On the tenth anniversary of The Cluetrain Manifesto, how's all that freedom, that cyberutopianism, that Internet exceptionalism working out for you?
More: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
with Berkman Fellows Doc Searls and David Weinberger, and Berkman faculty co-director Jonathan Zittrain
Time:Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:00
Location:Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Source: cyber.law.harvard.edu
The Chinese version of Herdict joins the previously released Arabic version, with more to come, as the team continues to tweak the algorithm for the Reporter, a.k.a. Am I blocked or not? and to add features and updates.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
There's been great anticipation around Stephen Wolfram's ambitious project to create a comprehensive "computational knowledge engine." The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University will host a sneak preview of the Wolfram|Alpha system, and a discussion of its underlying technology and implications. ...Participants will include Wolfram|Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram and Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law.
This event will be webcast live. More information: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
This event will be webcast live. More information: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
Stephen Wolfram & Jonathan Zittrain
Time:Tuesday, 28 April 2009 15:00
Location:Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Daniel Hoffer, Founder and Chairman of CouchSurfing, will be interviewed by Berkman Faculty Co-Director and Professor of Law Jonathan Zittrain.
CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.
About Daniel
Daniel Hoffer has been working with online communit...ies and the Internet since 1990, when he ran an online Bulletin Board System (BBS) and created a statewide educational program in Massachusetts to connect physically disabled patients with elementary and high school students online.
Daniel first worked closely with CouchSurfing co-founders Casey Fenton and Sebastien Letuan in 1999 at Fuxito Worldwide, a venture-backed international soccer website he co-founded. Since then, Daniel has worked full-time as a management consultant, in corporate strategy at NEC Corporation, and in sales and marketing at Siebel Systems, in marketing at Sibel Systems and in product management at Symantec.
More: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.
About Daniel
Daniel Hoffer has been working with online communit...ies and the Internet since 1990, when he ran an online Bulletin Board System (BBS) and created a statewide educational program in Massachusetts to connect physically disabled patients with elementary and high school students online.
Daniel first worked closely with CouchSurfing co-founders Casey Fenton and Sebastien Letuan in 1999 at Fuxito Worldwide, a venture-backed international soccer website he co-founded. Since then, Daniel has worked full-time as a management consultant, in corporate strategy at NEC Corporation, and in sales and marketing at Siebel Systems, in marketing at Sibel Systems and in product management at Symantec.
More: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
Daniel Hoffer, Founder of CouchSurfing, and Jonathan Zittrain, HLS
Time:Wednesday, 08 April 2009 14:00
Location:Pound Hall Room 100
Berkman Center for Internet & Society BadwareBusters.org officially launched today! Check it out for help & discussion on fighting badware: http://badwarebusters.org
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Join author Andrew Lih (The Wikipedia Revolution), interviewed by David Weinberger (Everything is Miscellaneous), for a fascinating discussion about how Wikipedia has influenced the Internet and our culture, and its implications beyond encyclopedia writing.
More: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/webo
Andrew Lih Interviewed by David Weinberger
Time:Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:00
Location:Griswold 110, Harvard Law School
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Who governs the Internet, and how? What kind of law does it have, what kind of law should it have, and who will make that law? David G. Post will be discussing these questions and his recently-published book, In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (Oxford), which looks at these questions throu...gh Jefferson's eyes, re-creating Jefferson’s encyclopedia of the New World ("Notes on the State of Virginia," 1786), but this time for cyberspace. What kind of a “place” is it? How does it work? How did it grow as fast as it did? What kind of new things, and what kind of old things, are out there? How did they get there, and how do they get from one place to another? What kinds of communities form there? What principles should guide our law-making efforts, and the design of our law-making institutions, in a global place like this? (And along the way, he tries to figure out why Jefferson had a moose shipped to him in Paris while he was serving as US minister to France and mounted in the lobby of his residence. What was he up to?)
What people are saying about the book...
“Brilliant - and a joy to read. The book of a career: sweeping in scope, without dropping a stitch of detail.” -Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Berkman Center Co-founder
"The book is an entertaining and thoughtful discussion of the intellectual struggles at the founding of the American republic, and how they parallel dilemmas about the nature of the Internet." -Harry Lewis, Berkman Fellow and former Dean of Harvard College
More information: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
What people are saying about the book...
“Brilliant - and a joy to read. The book of a career: sweeping in scope, without dropping a stitch of detail.” -Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Berkman Center Co-founder
"The book is an entertaining and thoughtful discussion of the intellectual struggles at the founding of the American republic, and how they parallel dilemmas about the nature of the Internet." -Harry Lewis, Berkman Fellow and former Dean of Harvard College
More information: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009
A book talk with David Post
Time:Tuesday, 17 March 2009 17:00
Location:Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
is watching a live webcast on location privacy in a mobile world: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lunc
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