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BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
March 25, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [TODAY 3/25/09] Web of Ideas: The Wikipedia Revolution -- David Weinberger interviews author Andrew Lih on his new book (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/webofideas/2009/03/wikipediarevolution)

[2] [THURSDAY 3/26/09] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group @ Yale (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/03/yale)

[3] [TUESDAY 3/31/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Future of Computational Science: Information Sharing and Reproducibility" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/03/stodden


[TODAY] WEB OF IDEAS on THE WIKIPEDIA REVOLUTION
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3/25/09, 6:00 PM ET, Griswold Hall 110, Harvard Law School
Tell us if you're coming on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/editevent.php?picture&eid=57459298780&created&new&m=1#/event.php?eid=57459298780) or Upcoming (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2130387/?ps=5)

Topic: The Wikipedia Revolution
Guest: David Weinberger interviews author Andrew Lih on his new book

The Wikipedia Revolution is the first narrative account of the remarkable success story of the "encyclopedia anyone can edit." Andrew Lih, a Wikipedia editor/administrator, academic and journalist, tells how the Internet's free culture community inspired its creation in 2001, and how legions of volunteers have emerged to create over 10 million articles in over 50 languages. The book recounts colorful behind-the-scenes stories of how obsessive map editors, automated software robots and warring factions have come to shape a complex online community of knowledge gatherers. Learn about the historical underpinnings of Wikipedia, of how a Hawaiian vacation and a fringe piece software from Apple Computer inspired the wiki concept, and realized the original read-and-write capabilities of the Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web. While Wikipedia has become firmly planted at the top of Google's search results, what are the challenges as sum of all human knowledge becomes more complete, and its problem is not growth, but reliability? Should we be putting so much trust in a resource created by anonymous nobodies?

Join author Andrew Lih (The Wikipedia Revolution), interviewed by David Weinberger (Everything is Miscellaneous), for a fascinating discussion about how Wikipedia has influenced the Internet and our culture, and its implications beyond encyclopedia writing.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/webofideas/2009/03/wikipediarevolution


[THURSDAY] HARVARD-MIT-YALE CYBERSCHOLARS
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3/26/09, 6:00 PM ET, Yale Law School Room 129
Food Provided: RSVP to bjp2108@columbia.edu
Announcement: http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/6669.htm

Presenters and papers:

- Gabriella Coleman: These are the Best of Times and these are the Worst of Times: Free Software and the Global Politics of Intellectual Property Law

- Thomas Streeter: The History of the Internet in the History of the Internet

- David Thaw: Understanding How Law and Regulation Drive Corporate Information Security Practices

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/03/yale


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE FUTURE OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE
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3/31/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).

Topic: The Future of Computational Science: Information Sharing and Reproducibility
Guest: Victoria Stodden

Computational research appears to be emerging as a third branch of the scientific method. Massive simulations and data mining subtle patterns in enormous datasets are emblems of our age. Yet the publication of computational research is typically done without the transmission of accompanying code and data, impeding the verification of results. Without reproducibility, computational science is missing a crucial opportunity to control for error, a central motivation of the scientific method. With the facilitation of digital communication through the Internet, all components of scientific research – such as the code and the data, as well as the written article – can be shared, results can be verified, and research more readily built upon. Copyright stands as a barrier to this effort since it establishes, by default, exclusive rights for creators over their work, thereby limiting the ability of others to copy, use, build upon, or alter the research. I present the Reproducible Research Standard to realign the Intellectual Property framework with longstanding scientific norms and promote the release of all components of computational research.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/03/stodden


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 3/30-3/31 Freedom to Connect (http://freedom-to-connect.net/)

[2] 4/1/09 "Designing IT in the Age of Obama" with Doc Searls and more. Hosted by the Mass Technology Leadership Council. (http://opensource090331.eventbrite.com/)

[3] 4/4/09 "Symposium to Explore the Future of Digital Collections" (http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/reference/archive/2009/02/16/library-2-0-symposium-to-explore-the-future-of-digital-collections.aspx)

[4] 5/2/09 New Media Literacy's "Learning in a Participatory Culture" (http://newmedialiteracies.org/)


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.harvard.edu/interactive.

-RADIO BERKMAN: Crowdsourcing - Fact or Myth? (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman114)

-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with DOC SEARLS on "The Intention Economy: What Happens When Customers Get Real Power" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2009/03/searls)


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