BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // January 26, 2011

[TODAY 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 2/1] Berkman Luncheon Series: "What would make cloud computing truly free and open?" with Andy Oram, O'Reilly Media (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/02/oram)

[TUESDAY 2/1] Berkman Fellow Lewis Hyde on his new book, "Common as Air" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/02/hyde)


[TODAY 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


[TUESDAY 2/1] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on WHAT WOULD MAKE CLOUD COMPUTING TRULY FREE AND OPEN
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2/1/11, 12:30 pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Topic: "What would make cloud computing truly free and open?"
Guests: Andy Oram, O'Reilly Media

The various trends known as cloud computing have spawned serious critiques about vendors' reliability, security, privacy, and liability. This talk melds cloud computing with the principles of free and open source software to find solutions or mitigating factors for many of these concerns. Although other proposals have been aired for cloud standards, open clouds, open source licensing, loosening data, and others gestures toward customer control, this talk goes a step or two beyond them to suggest a more comprehensive architectural approach.

About Andy

Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in open source technologies and software engineering. His work for O'Reilly includes the first books ever released by a U.S. publisher on Linux, the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer, and the 2007 best-seller Beautiful Code.

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/2011/02/oram


[TUESDAY 2/1] LEWIS HYDE on COMMON AS AIR
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2/1/11, 7:00 pm, Harvard Humanities Center / Barker Center
Free and open to the public; RSVP is required to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu
Food and drink will be served

Topic: Comon as Air
Guests: Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde, Berkman Center Fellow & Professor at Kenyon College, will discuss his new book, "Common as Air."

Response by Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard.

Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. His 1983 book, The Gift, illuminates and defends the non-commercial portion of artistic practice. Trickster Makes This World (1998) uses a group of ancient myths to argue for the kind of disruptive intelligence all cultures need if they are to remain lively, flexible, and open to change. Hyde is currently at work on a book about our “cultural commons,” that vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of art that we have inherited from the past and continue to produce.

A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde teaches during the fall semesters at Kenyon College, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing. During the rest of the year he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Robert Darnton's review of Common as Air in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Darnton-t.html

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/02/hyde


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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1/26: Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change // Harvard Book Store (http://www.harvard.com/event/jared_duval_event/)

2/7: Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption // IBM Center for Social Software (http://ctr4sslessig.eventbrite.com/)

2/10: Digital Humanities 2.0: Emerging Paradigms in the Arts and Humanities in the Information Age, featuring Berkman Fellow Jeffrey Schnapp // Harvard Humanities Center (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/conferences/index.shtml)

3/25: Fifth Annual Law & Information Society Symposium: Mobile Devices, Location Technologies & Shifting Values // Fordham University (http://law2.fordham.edu/ihtml/cal-2uwcp-calendar_viewitem.ihtml?idc=1110...)

4/6-7: Beyond Books: News, Literacy, Democracy and America's Libraries // MIT Center for Future Civic Media (http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Biblionews)


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.

-JOHN PALFREY on "The Path of Legal Information" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/11/palfrey)

-Berkman Luncheon Series: TIM WU on THE MASTER SWITCH (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2011/01/wu / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVZLl4EKQis)


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