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Past Events

Mar 4, 2016 @ 9:00 AM

Conectados al Sur - Breakfast of Ideas

Latino STEM Alliance Boston

The Breakfast of Ideas event seeks to gather both people from Latin American and individuals who have a sincere interest in Latin American affairs revolving around issues of…

Mar 1, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

The Big Reverse of the Web: Are Our Policies and Standards Ready?

with Open Source developer, Dries Buytaert

Artificially intelligent personal assistants and algorithms are just the first signs of a web that's designed to deliver the highly personalized information to us at the right…

Feb 23, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Developing Effective Citizen Responses to Discrimination and Harassment Online

with Berkman Fellow, Nathan Matias

MIT PhD candidate Nathan Matias shares four years of research and design interventions aimed at expanding the power of citizens to understand and develop effective responses to…

Feb 19, 2016 @ 9:00 AM

Conectados al Sur - Breakfast of Ideas

Science Clubs Colombia Project (Clubes de Ciencia)

The Breakfast of Ideas event seeks to gather both people from Latin American and individuals who have a sincere interest in Latin American affairs revolving around issues of…

Feb 16, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Security and Privacy in the World-Sized Web

with Berkman Fellow, Bruce Schneier

We've created a world where technology permeates our economies, social interactions, and intimate selves. Yet these systems demand continuous access to us and our information, and…

Feb 2, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Engineering open production efficiency at scale

with computer scientist, Aaron Halfaker

Mixing systems thinking, advanced computation, and feminist theory to design for better open production communities.

Jan 26, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Civic Technology and Community Science: building a model for public participation in environmental decision-making processes

with Berkman Fellow, Shannon Dosemagen

Building on civic technology and grassroots community science methods, we’ll examine how open, online communities can support the goals of local groups as they engage with…

Jan 12, 2016 @ 12:30 PM

Haiti, Machine Learning, and Ankle Holsters: Reflections on the U.S. Treasury Department in the Late 1990s

with California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Come hear California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar reflect on his years working at Treasury in the late 1990s and discuss enduring dilemmas in governance, law,…

Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Techno-Vernacular Creativity and STEAM

with Dr. Nettrice Gaskins, STEAM Lab Director at Boston Arts Academy

Tuesday, December 15, 2015, at 12:00 pm Harvard Law School Campus Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C  Dr. Gaskins discusses her model for ‘techno-vernacular’ creative…

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Dec 8, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

State of Student Privacy

with Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Dalia Topelson Ritvo, Paulina Haduong, and Leah Plunkett

The Berkman Center’s Student Privacy Initiative will be taking stock of our student privacy work to date and exploring future directions. At this luncheon, the Berkman team will…

Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:00 PM

Privacy & Europe:
 Debating the "Right to be Forgotten,” Trans-Atlantic Data Flows, and the World's Toughest New Privacy Laws

with Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, Peter Fleischer

Privacy & Europe:
 Debating the "Right to be Forgotten,” Trans-Atlantic Data Flows, and the World's Toughest New Privacy Laws

Nov 24, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Privacy in a world of IoT, self driving cars, and a climate crisis

with Robin Chase

Robin Chase will lay out a near term future where communications and software platforms will deliver us smart cities, smart homes, and ubiquitous clean low cost shared transport.

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Nov 10, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Bridging the gap between computer science and legal approaches to privacy

with Kobbi Nissim and Alexandra Wood

Can lawyers and computer scientists bridge their very different notions of privacy?

Nov 3, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Re-assembling the Assembly Line: Digital Labor Economies and Demands for an Ambient Workforce

with Berkman Fellow, Mary L. Gray

Tuesday, November 3, 2015, at 12:00 pm Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Harvard Law School Campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C   …

Oct 27, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

The Internet of Garbage

with Sarah Jeong

What do we do about online harassment? Sarah Jeong talks about the lessons we can learn from anti-spam technology and copyright law, and how to think beyond deletion and legal…

Oct 20, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Property law and the blockchain

with Berkman Fellow, Patrick Murck

In this talk we will explore the first area of interest and try to unpack the basic property interests one can have in a bitcoin.

Oct 13, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

"Kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade" Cory Doctorow

Join science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, Cory Doctorow in discussion with Jonathan Zittrain

Cory Doctorow joins Jonathan Zittrain in discussion about the work he's doing with EFF to kill all DRM in the world forever, within a decade!

Oct 8, 2015 @ 2:00 PM

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

at Harvard Law School

On October 8, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will be holding oral arguments at Harvard Law School, in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall. The…

Oct 7, 2015 @ 10:00 AM

Libraries: the Next Generation

Drawing on our past, and creating new resources for our future

In 2013, the Berkman Center helped to launch the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and…

Oct 6, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

State of the Podcast, 2015

How the podcasting revolution happened, and where it could go

Tuesday, October 6, 2015, at 12:00 pm Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Harvard Law School Campus, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B Chris…