BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // October 13, 2010

[1] [TUESDAY 10/19] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia" with Joseph Reagle, Berkman Center Fellow (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/reagle)

[2] [TUESDAY 10/19] "Mapping the Russian Blogosphere" in Washington, DC at the United States Institute of Peace with the Berkman Research Team, Alexey Navalny (Yale World Fellow), Ivan Sigal (Global Voices), and Angela Stent (Center for Eurasian, Russian & East European Studies at Georgetown) - (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/10/russiaDC)

Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Seminars

[MONDAY 10/18] CRCS Seminar: "Automated Digital Forensics" with Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6375)


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE CULTURE OF WIKIPEDIA
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10/19/10, 12:30pm ET, Pound Hall Room 335, Harvard Law School
**Please note new location for this week only**
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia
Guests: Joseph Reagle, Berkman Center Fellow

Wikipedia's style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge, Wikipedia has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia. Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia is a rich ethnographic portrayal of Wikipedia's historical roots, collaborative culture, and much debated legacy.

About Joseph

Joseph Reagle is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he studies collaborative cultures. He received his Ph.D., and was an adjunct faculty member, at NYU's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. As a Research Engineer at MIT's Lab for Computer Science and Working Group Chair and Author within IETF and W3C, he contributed to several specifications on digital security and privacy. He also helped develop and maintain W3C's privacy and intellectual rights policies (i.e., copyright/trademark licenses and patent analysis). Dr. Reagle has degrees in Computer Science (UMBC), Technology Policy (MIT), and Media, Culture, and Communication (NYU). He served as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, has been consulted on new-media related projects, and has been profiled, interviewed, and quoted in national media including Technology Review, The Economist, The New York Times and American and New Zealand Public Radio. A book, based on his dissertation, about Wikipedia history and collaboration will be available in 2010 from The MIT Press.

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/2010/10/reagle


[TUESDAY] MAPPING THE RUSSIAN BLOGOSPHERE
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10/19/10, 10AM-12PM
United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC
Free and Open to the Public; RSVP required
This event will be webcast live

Mapping the Russian Blogosphere

Hosted by USIP’s Center of Innovation for Science, Technology & Peacebuilding, experts from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Morningside Analytics will present their new research on the Russian blogosphere, while prominent Russia experts and notable bloggers will respond. The research team mapped this extensive social network, analyzing over 11,000 Russian language blogs to understand how politics is discussed, by whom, and if there is evidence of political and social mobilization in the blogosphere. The team also analyzed the blogosphere’s place within the overall Russian online and traditional media ecology, including discussion of top political YouTube videos.

Speakers include: Karina Alexanyan, (Researcher and Analyst, Berkman Center for Internet & Society), Bruce Etling (Director, Internet & Democracy Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society), John Kelly (Founder and Chief Scientist, Morningside Analytics), Alexey Navalny (Yale World Fellow and Prominent Russian Blogger), Ivan Sigal (Executive Director, Global Voices), Angela Stent (Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian & East European Studies, Georgetown University) Sheldon Himelfarb (Executive Director, Center of Innovation for Science, Technology & Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace).

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/10/russiaDC. To RSVP visit: http://russianblogs.eventbrite.com/.


[MONDAY ] CRCS SEMINAR: AUTOMATED DIGITAL FORENSICS
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CRCS Lunch Seminar
Date: Monday, October 18, 2010
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119

Speaker: Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School
Title: Automated Digital Forensics

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 criminal perpetrators. Although digital forensics has a great potential for providing criminal leads and assisting in criminal investigations, today’s tools are incredibly difficult to use and there is a nationwide shortage of trained forensic investigators. As a result, computer forensics is most often a tool used for security convictions, not for performing investigations.

This talk presents research aimed at realizing the goal of Automated Digital Forensics—research that brings the tools of data mining and artificial intelligence to the problems of digital forensics. The ultimate goal of this research is to create automated tools that will be able to ingest a hard drive or flash storage device and produce a high-level reports that be productively used by relatively untrained individuals.

This talk will present:
* A brief introduction to digital forensics and related privacy issues.
* Histogram Analysis – Using Frequency and Context to understand disks without understanding files.
* Instant Drive Analysis, our work which allows the contents of a 1TB hard drive to be inventoried in less than 45 seconds using statistical sampling.=
* Our efforts to build Standardized Forensic Corpora of files and disk images, so that work different practitioners can be scientifically compared.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6375


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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10/14: Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science: Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery // Harvard SEAS (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/computer_science/disti...)

10/15-16: Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education // Harvard Law School (http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/plp/pages/future_ed_conference.php)

10/16: Boston Book Festival (http://bostonbookfest.org/)

10/16-17: Music Hack Day // Microsoft NERD Center (http://boston.musichackday.org/)

10/18-24: Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

10/19: Meet the Author: Clay Shirky // Monitor Talent (http://www.monitortalent.com/news/Meet_the_Author_shirky.html)

10/20: Humanities in the Digital Age // MIT Communications Forum (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/humanities_digital_age.html)

10/20: The Internet: Its Past and Possible Futures // Simmons College (http://isocne.eventbrite.com/)

10/26: SM& Presents Crisis in the Age of Social Media // Solomon McCown (http://www.solomonmccown.com/solomonmccown_crisissocialmedia.pdf)

10/27: "From Free Software and Wikipedia to a Field of Cooperative Human Systems Design" featuring Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director Yochai Benkler // University of Wisconsin (http://www.ocr.wisc.edu/calendar/?ID=32414)

10/28: "Freedom and Power in the Networked Information Environment" featuring Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director Yochai Benkler // University of Wisconsin (http://www.ocr.wisc.edu/calendar/?ID=32418)

10/28-31: Free/Libre Culture Forum // Barcelona, Spain (http://2010.fcforum.net/)

10/29: "Why Books" Conference featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Directors John Palfrey and Stuart Shieber // Radcliffe (http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/whybooks_conference.aspx)

11/3-5: Mozilla Drumbeat Festival // Barcelona, Spain (http://www.drumbeat.org/festival)

11/5: "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires" book talk with Tim Wu // Harvard Book Store (http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2656)

11/30: One Day Conference - Big Data: Public Policy and the Exploding Digital Corpus // Princeton CITP (http://citp.princeton.edu/events/big-data/)


DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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