We are becoming data. Between our mobile phones, browser history, wearable sensors, and connected devices in our homes, there's more data about us than ever before. So how are we…
On April 28-30, 2014, Berkman and UNICEF co-hosted, in collaboration with PEW Internet, EU Kids Online, the Internet Society (ISOC), Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI…
Join Professor William Fisher and Pedro Paranagua, senior legal advisor for the Brazilian government on Intellectual Property, for a comparative perspective on major features of…
Ethereum: smart contracts, distributed autonomous organizations, and the law. Can the dreams of an autonomous decentralized society be implemented through the tyranny of code?
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is pleased to invite the community to continue the conversation on the future of the unowned Internet on April 8, 2014 with a panel…
Free online courses may yet spark an education revolution, in ways their biggest proponents hadn’t guessed. This talk will take a closer look at who is taking MOOCs and why --…
People hating others isn't new - what's new is that the rest of us are often privy to it, when it's expressed online. This is painful but it's also an opportunity to learn how to…
Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, in conversation with Jonathan Zittrain
A talk and discussion about D&D can be a perfect training ground for law and life. With critic and journalist, Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, http:/…
with special guests Lily Cole, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Rosemary Leith, Jonathan Zittrain, Judith Donath, and Urs Gasser
On March 5, the Berkman Center will celebrate the US launch of *impossible*. Joining us will be Lily Cole, founder of *impossible* and fashion model, actress, and social…
Karim R. Lakhani, Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
Most of society’s innovation systems–academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.–are “open” in the sense they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosures amongst…
Over the past decade Israel has created some of the most innovative cyber security companies in the world today. On March 3, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and JVP…
This month's presentations include: (1) Ramesh Subramanian on "Old Ideas: BBSs and the Emergence of Online Communities in India" and (2) Brad A. Greenberg on "Rethinking…
