BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
September 30, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [TUESDAY 10/6/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions: A Report from the Berkman Law Lab" with John Clippinger, Urs Gasser, and Oliver Goodenough (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/10/lawlab)

[2] [TUESDAY 10/6/09] Web of Ideas on "What Information Was" with David Weinberger (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/webofideas/2009/10/whatinfowas)

[3] [WEDNESDAY 10/7/09] Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/10/schonberger)

[TUESDAY 10/6/09] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE LAW LAB
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Tuesday, 10/6/09, 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: Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions: A Report from the Berkman Law Lab
Guest: John Clippinger (Co-Director of the Law Lab), Urs Gasser (Berkman Center Executive Director and co-principal investigator of the Law Lab), and Oliver Goodenough (Co-Director of the Law Lab)

The Berkman Center Law Lab is a project devoted to investigating and harness the varied forces — evolutionary, social, psychological, neurological and economic — that shape the role of law and social norms as they enable cooperation, governance and entrepreneurial innovation. Through open observational and experimental web-based platforms and open source software, the Law Lab is seeking to understand and develop new digital institutions and research tools that can foster innovation and deepen our understanding of trust, transparency and human cooperation.

Recent research has focused on exploring the core mechanisms associated with online governance and entrepreneurial models, including, for example, new understandings of reputation, identity, and security systems; new models for private law setting; and new opportunities for the creation of scalable groups. This discussion will focus on the progress made this year on sector-specific use cases, including Finance 3.0; Vermont Digital LLC; and ODR in civic participation.

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/2009/10/lawlab

[TUESDAY 10/6/09] WEB OF IDEAS on WHAT INFORMATION WAS
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Tuesday, 10/6/09, 6:00 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu).

Topic: What Information Was
Guest: David Weinberger, Berkman Center

It's puzzling that even though we named an age after information, very few people can tell you what information is. And the ones with the clearest answers are often defining information in the technical sense, which is not the sense in which the culture took it up. In this session, we'll look back at information, trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant -- paradigmatic -- way of understanding ourselves and our world. David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into information because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. There will be lots of time for open discussion.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/webofideas/2009/10/whatinfowas

[WEDNESDAY 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
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP requested for those attending in person: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEZFTFBsVERNbUtvRHZSaFM5...
Map: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=...

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.

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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CRCS Lunch Seminar
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Time: 11:45am - 1:15pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area

Speaker: Eran Tromer, MIT
Title: Side Channels and Vulnerabilities in Cloud Computing

Today’s computers typically run numerous processes of varying sensitivity and trustworthiness. The platform purports to protect these from each other, but side channels arise from lower architectural layers (such as contention for shared hardware resources), and create inadvertent cross-talk between processes. These leakages can be exploited for stealing cryptographic keys and other sensitive information.

More Information: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/berkmanevents/2009/09/29/crcs-lunch-seminar...

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 10/2: MIT Legatum Center Conference (http://legatum.mit.edu/Conference2009)

[2] 10/4-6: Future of Music Coalition: Policy Summit // Washington, DC (http://futureofmusic.org/events/future-music-policy-summit-2009)

[3] 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)

[4] 10/8: MIT Communications Forum: Race, Politics, and American Media (http://civic.mit.edu/event/communications-forum-race-politics-and-americ...)

[5] 10/12-13: Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information // MIT (http://senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata/)

[6] 10/14: The Democratization of Innovation: A conversation with Ray Kurzweil // MIT Enterprise Forum (http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/iseries/oct09.html)

[7] 10/17: PublicMediaCamp // Washington, DC (http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2009/08/publicmediacamp_strengthening.ht...)

[8] 10/19-23: Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

[9] 10/24: Tech Futures at the Boston Book Festival (http://www.bostonbookfest.org/index.php/bookfest/blog/tech_futures_at_th...)

[10] Spring 2010: Stanford Intelligent Information Privacy Management Symposium (http://codex.stanford.edu/privacy2010.html)

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.

-Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection with AMARTYA SEN, MICHAEL SPENCE, YOCHAI BENKLER, CLOTILDE FONSECA, and MIKE BEST: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/09/idrc/idrcpanel and also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uuanAaV5Y0&feature=player_profilepage

-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with HERKKO HIETANEN on Network Recorders and Social Enrichment of Television: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/09/hietan...

-RADIO BERKMAN 131: CLAY SHIRKY asks "How's Your Web" // Interview with DAVID WEINBERGER: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman131

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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
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See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, conferences, and more: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

[1] 10/12-13: VRM East Coast Workshop (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5663)

[2] 10/15-16: Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5654)

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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. For more information, visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.