BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
September 23, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [TODAY 9/23/09] Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection? with Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Michael Spence, Yochai Benkler, Clotilde Fonseca, and Mike Best; sponsored by Canada's International Development Research Centre (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/idrc?utm_source=Berkman&utm_...)

[2] [TUESDAY 9/29/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Network Recorders and Social Enrichment of Television" with Herkko Hietanen, Berkman Fellow (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/09/hietanen)

[3] [SAVE THE DATE 10/7/09] Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

[TODAY 9/23/09] COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: THE FREEDOM CONNECTION?
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Wednesday, 9/23/09, 7:00PM ET, Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Sponsored by Canada's International Development Research Centre
Free and open to the public; live video and audio-only streams will also be available.
Remote participation tools and more: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/idrc?utm_source=Berkman&utm_...

Topic: Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection?
Guests: Amartya Sen, Michael Spence, Yochai Benkler, Clotilde Fonseca, and moderator Michael Best

Global Voices Online Special Coverage: http://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/the-future-of-ict-for-deve...

Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Michael Spence will join leading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca in a public discussion of the role of communication and ICTs in human development, growth and poverty reduction. Michael Best will moderate the discussion. What has changed, been learned, not been learned, needs to be learned, needs to be done most urgently?

Optional RSVP via Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/editevent.php?picture&eid=124927576447&new&m=3#/...) or Upcoming (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4405330/?ps=5)

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/idrc?utm_source=Berkman&utm_...

[TUESDAY 9/29/09] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on NETWORK RECORDERS AND SOCIAL ENRICHMENT OF TELEVISION
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Tuesday, 9/15/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu).
This event will be webcast live.

Topic: Network Recorders and Social Enrichment of Television
Guest: Herkko Hietanen, Berkman Fellow

Television recorders are going online. Online recording can be done through several ways. Cable and IPTV service provider can make central remote recorders available to their subscribers. The recorders are operated by the users but this far their use have been limited to dedicated set top boxes. Device manufacturers are starting to produce consumer devices and software that can be connected to Internet at consumers' homes. In the operator model, the recording is done near the core of the broadcast network while in the consumer model it is done at the edge of the network.

Both the core and edge models offer advantages compared to non-networked television and recording. Network PVRs offer ways to include new social features to television experience. However the models are very different when it comes to the control of the rights owners and service providers. One may expect different kind of innovation to happen in the two service types.

The core model can help to provide access to premium content while the edge model enables the full use of social networks. With the social enrichment of current TV offerings the edge model may prove to create disruption to the industry that is accustomed to control the consumption of content.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/09/hietanen

[SAVE THE DATE 10/7/09] DELETE: THE VIRTUE OF FORGETTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
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Wednesday, 10/7/09, 6:00PM, Pound Hall Room 335, Harvard Law School
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live
RSVP Requested: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEZFTFBsVERNbUtvRHZSaFM5...

Topic: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Guest: A book talk with Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

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.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/10/schonberger

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CS Colloquium: Automated Design and Verification of Security Protocols based on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
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9/24/09, 4:00PM, Maxwell Dworkin G-125

A central challenge in the analysis of complex, industrial-size security protocols is the expressiveness of the formalism used in the formal analysis and its capability to model complex cryptographic operations. While such protocols traditionally relied only on the basic cryptographic operations such as encryption and digital signatures, modern cryptography has invented more sophisticated primitives with unique security features that go far beyond the traditional understanding of cryptography to solely offer secrecy and authenticity of a communication. Zero-knowledge proofs constitute the most prominent and arguably most amazing such primitive. A zero-knowledge proof consists of a message or a sequence of messages that combines two seemingly contradictory properties: First, it constitutes a proof of a statement that cannot be forged, i.e., it is impossible, or at least computationally infeasible, to produce a zero-knowledge proof of a wrong statement. Second, a zero-knowledge proof does not reveal any information besides the bare validity of the statement. This primitive's unique security features, combined with the recent advent of efficient cryptographic implementations of zero-knowledge proofs for special classes of problems, have paved the way for its deployment in modern applications, such as e-voting systems and anonymity protocols.

In this talk, I will present a framework for the verification and design of security protocols based on zero-knowledge proofs. The framework comprises a symbolic representation of the cryptographic semantics of zero-knowledge proofs that is suitable to automated verification, a type system for the static enforcement of authorization policies, a corresponding cryptographic soundness result against arbitrary active attacks, and a general methodology for designing security protocols that are resistant to principal compromise.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/csee/computer_science/...

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 9/22-24: EmTech 2009 // MIT (http://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/09/index.aspx)

[2] 9/24: Managing Risks in the Cyber Supply Chain (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/berkmanevents/2009/09/21/cybersecurity-talk...)

[3] New England IP Colloquium Series: Trademark Fair Use Reform Act with Professor Bill McGeveran (http://www.law.suffolk.edu/about/news (http://www.law.suffolk.edu/about/news/)

[4] 9/25-27: The 37th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy // Arlington, VA (http://www.tprcweb.com/)

[5] 9/27: Open Government Hack Day // Cambridge, MA (http://opengovhackday.pbworks.com/)

[6] 10/4-6: Future of Music Coalition: Policy Summit // Washington, DC (http://futureofmusic.org/events/future-music-policy-summit-2009)

[7] 10/7: Clicking "Refresh": A New Look at Fair Use in the Digital Age with Berkman Faculty Director Terry Fisher // NYC Bar (http://www.nycbar.org/EventsCalendar/show_event.php?eventid=1217)

[8] 10/8: MIT Communications Forum: Race, Politics, and American Media (http://civic.mit.edu/event/communications-forum-race-politics-and-americ...)

[9] 10/12-13: Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information // MIT (http://senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata/)

[10] 10/14: The Democratization of Innovation: A conversation with Ray Kurzweil // MIT Enterprise Forum (http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/iseries/oct09.html)

[11] 10/17: PublicMediaCamp // Washington, DC (http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2009/08/publicmediacamp_strengthening.ht...)

[12] 10/19-23: Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

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 at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive.

-LEE DIRKS on TRANSFORMING SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/09/dirks

-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with CALESTOUS JUMA on Broadband Internet for Eastern Africa: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2009/09/juma

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