BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // January 12, 2011

[TUESDAY 1/18] "Four Ideas for a Better Internet" at Stanford Law School (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/01/fourideas)

[1/25] Berkman Luncheon Series: "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites" with Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/01/zuckerman_roberts)

[NEW DATE 1/26] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group, featuring Brian Kernighan on "What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?"; Yanni Loukissas on "Visualizing Human Presence Tools for the Social Study of Human, Remote, and Autonomous Operations"; and Bryan Choi on "The Anonymous Internet" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2011/01/berkman)


[TUESDAY 1/18] FOUR IDEAS FOR A BETTER INTERNET at STANFORD LAW SCHOOL
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1/18/11, 6:00 pm PT, Paul Brest Hall, Munger Building 4
RSVP via this form https://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/forms/fourideas.fb

Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School are pleased to invite you to a special reception and event on the Stanford campus, featuring four TED-style talks drawn from the Difficult Problems in Cyberspace seminar, a joint venture of Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School.  Bringing together esteemed thinkers and innovators, this event will examine the hard problems at the core of the developing online space, with topics drawn from the areas of Cybersecurity, Diplomatic Transparency, Crowdsourcing, and Privacy and Reputation. Food and drink will be served throughout the event.

Special guests from Silicon Valley, Washington DC, New York, and beyond, include:

Harvey Anderson, General Counsel of Mozilla
Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of Mozilla
Lukas Biewald, Founder of Crowdflower
Robert Clark, U.S. Army Cyber Command
David Hornik, Partner at August Capital
Peter Kazanjy, Founder of Honestly.com
Alex Macgillivray, General Counsel of Twitter
Andrew McLaughlin, Former Deputy CTO of the United States
Aza Raskin, Founder of Massive Health
Ben Scott, U.S. Department of State
Clay Shirky, NYU
Elizabeth Stark, Yale University
Vivek Wadhwa, UC Berkeley

With introductions by Stanford Law Dean Larry Kramer and Harvard Law Prof. Jonathan Zittrain.

The reception will begin at 6pm with presentations to follow from 7-9pm.

Cosponsored by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/01/fourideas


[1/25] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS
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1/25/11, 12:30 pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Topic: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites
Guests: Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York

Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York will discuss the recently released Berkman Center report on "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites."

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/2011/01/zuckerman_roberts


[1/26] CYBERSCHOLARS
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1/26/11, 6:00pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St. 2nd Floor
RSVP is required to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu

The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT,  Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to discuss their ongoing research.

This month's presenters will include:Brian Kernighan on "What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?"; Yanni Loukissas on "Visualizing Human Presence Tools for the Social Study of Human, Remote, and Autonomous Operations"; and Bryan Choi on "The Anonymous Internet".

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2011/01/berkman


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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1/13: "A Tale of Two Blogospheres" with Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director Yochai Benkler // Stanford University (http://globaljustice.stanford.edu/events/a_tale_of_two_blogospheres/)

1/13: World Fair Use Day // Washington, DC (http://worldsfairuseday.org/)

1/17: The GovData Project: Help Us Make Government Data Accessible! // IQSS at Harvard (http://www.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/2459)


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.

-Berkman Luncheon Series: Tim Wu on THE MASTER SWITCH (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2011/01/wu)

-Radio Berkman 171: Wikileaks and the Information Wars (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/12/08/radio-berkman-171/)

-Radio Berkman 172: The Evolutionary Biases of the Technium (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/12/16/radio-berkman-172-t...)


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