As a result of increasing spam, DDoS attacks, cybercrime, and data exfiltration from corporate and government sites, there have been multiple calls for an Internet architecture…
Toshie Takahashi on "Japanese Youths, Mobile Phones, and Social Media"; C.W. Anderson on "Textual Tunnel-Hops and Narrative Chutes-and-Ladders: The HTML Link as an Uncertain…
Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College
There has been an explosion of web-enabled innovations around consumption sharing and extra-market exchange in order to reduce footprint. At the cutting-edge people are turning to…
Prof. Alex `Sandy’ Pentland, MIT Human Dynamics Lab
We have developed robust models of how social network dynamics shape human behavior. These models are constructed by use of data collected by my research group’s unique `reality…
John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School & Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director
On the occasion of his appointment as the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, John Palfrey will give a lecture entitled, "The Path of Legal Information."
Kim Dulin & David Weinberger, co-directors of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School
The co-directors of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School -- Kim Dulin and David Weinberger -- along with members of the Lab will demonstrate their lead project…
R. David Hosp, Goodwin Procter LLP & Ed Weiss, New England Sports Ventures
The Berkman Center's Cyberlaw Clinic and Harvard Law School's Journal of Law and Technology present a conversation about 2008's landmark "Cablevision" case, in which the Second…
Dave Rand, Berkman Fellow & Research Scientist at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
In this talk Dave Rand will describe how to go about designing and running experiments using Mechanical Turk, some successful experiments that have been run (mostly involving…
Large volumes of sensitive data are currently collected by an array of agencies, companies, and other organizations. While these data clearly hold great potential for analysis,…
John Chory and Susan Mazur, Partners at WilmerHale Venture Group
John Chory and Susan Mazur will discuss issues affecting startup companies. In their experience, Founders of companies often have early sins of omission or commission which…
Hosted by USIP’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology & Peacebuilding, researchers from the Berkman Center and their collaborators at Morningside Analytics will present…
Wikipedia's style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge,…
Despite what you may have seen in the movies, today the primary use of digital forensics is to demonstrate the presence of child pornography on the computer systems of suspected…
Dave Karpf, Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow
Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow Dave Karpf discusses his research on the emergence of a new generation of Internet-mediated political…
Social choice, an important topic of study for centuries, has recently been the subject of intense investigation and application within computer science. Craig Boutilier of the…
This October 1 & 2, Open Video Alliance will present the second annual Open Video Conference in New York City. While the OVA focuses on creating and promoting free and open…
A statistical database provides statistical information about a population, while maintaining the privacy of individuals in the database. A popular interpretation of this…
We're pleased to announce that the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard's Berkman Center and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University are co-hosting a…
