BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // November 23, 2010

[TUESDAY 11/30] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Building OneVille: Understanding and Improving a Communication Ecosystem in Education" with Mica Pollock, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; The OneVille Project (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/11/pollock)

CRCS Seminars

[MONDAY 11/29] CRCS Seminar: "Untangling Attribution: Understanding the Requirements Needed for Attribution on the Network" with Susan Landau, Radcliffe/CRCS (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6466)

Special note: The Berkman Center has issued a call for papers for the Rethink Music conference, to be held this coming spring in Cambridge and Boston: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6456


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on BUILDING ONEVILLE
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11/30/10, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Building OneVille: Understanding and Improving a Communication Ecosystem in Education
Guests: Mica Pollock, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; The OneVille Project

The talk will share what’s being learned as partners of all ages in the diverse community of Somerville, MA, explore the role of commonplace technology in improving communications about and with young people. In the OneVille Project, students, teachers, parents, mentors, techies, and researchers are co-designing and pilot-testing a toolbox of open source “community communication tools” supporting students individually, across schools, and citywide. Who needs to communicate what information to whom, through which media, in order to support youth in a community? Which barriers are in the way of such communication, and how might these barriers be overcome? And what are the devil(s) in the details of just “adding tech”? Mica Pollock, an anthropologist of education and Somerville parent, will share her early thoughts on this collective effort to understand and improve a city’s ecosystem of communications.

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/2010/11/pollock


CRCS Seminar

[MONDAY] CRCS Seminar
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CRCS Lunch Seminar
Date: Monday, November 29, 2010
Time: 11:30am – 1:-00pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119

Speaker: Susan Landau, Radcliffe/CRCS
Topic: CRCS Seminar: Untangling Attribution: Understanding the Requirements Needed for Attribution on the Network

As a result of increasing spam, DDoS attacks, cybercrime, and data exfiltration from corporate and government sites, there have been multiple calls for an Internet architecture that enables better network attribution at the packet layer. The intent is for a mechanism that links a packet to some packet level personally identifiable information. But cyberattacks and cyberexploitations are more different than they are the same. One result of these distinctions is that packet-level attribution is neither as useful nor as necessary as it would appear. In this talk, I analyze the different types of Internet-based attacks, and observe the role that currently available alternatives to attribution already play in deterrence and prosecution. I focus on the particular character of multi-stage network attacks, in which machine A penetrates and “takes over” machine B, which then does the same to machine C, etc. and consider how these types of attacks might be traced, and observe that any technical contribution can only be contemplated in the larger regulatory context of various legal jurisdictions.

This represents joint work with David Clark of MIT.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6466


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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11/29: Web Innovators Group 28 (WebInno28) - Five Year Anniversary (http://webinno28.eventbrite.com/)

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

12/1: Barbara van Schewick on Internet Architecture, Innovation and Network Neutrality // Stanford Law School (http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6557)

12/6: Nicholas Christakis - Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives // IBM Research (http://ctr4sschristakis.eventbrite.com/)


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.

-Barbara van Schewick on Internet Architecture and Innovation (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/11/vanschewick)

-Kim Dulin & David Weinberger on the Meta-Library (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/11/metalib...)

-Juliet Schor on Using the Internet to “Save the Planet” (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/11/schor)

-Radio Berkman 168: Rethinking Music, Part I - Creativity, Commerce, and Policy (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/11/19/radio-berkman-168-r...)

-Radio Berkman 169: Wiki'd (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/11/23/radio-berkman-169-w...)


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