Dean's Lecture Series

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: Todd Carter
210 South Hall, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
What role will museums and libraries play in the information technology landscape of the future? Todd Carter presents his vision of museums and libraries empowered by Web 2.0 and crowd-sourcing technologies.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: Alessandro Acquisti
210 South Hall, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
How do companies use Facebook to investigate potential employees? And does Facebook facilitate illegal employment bias?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: David Ayman Shamma, Yahoo! Research
210 South Hall, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
David A. Shamma is a media artist and research scientist studying creative expression and sharing at Yahoo! Research.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: Victoria Stodden
210 South Hall, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Victoria Stodden is a scholar of law, statistics, and computational science policy, and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: Tarun Wadhwa
210 South Hall, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Digital identity systems are quietly reshaping the world, changing how we cross borders, conduct commerce, and interact with our governments. How can we understand the incredible opportunities of these technologies — along with their enormous challenges and risks?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: Ramesh Srinivasan
210 South Hall, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Ramesh Srinivasan reports on his fieldwork on technology, culture, and community-driven design from Egypt's Tahrir Square, the Zuni Nation of New Mexico, the Kyrgyz Steppe, and Rural India.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: Lada Adamic
210 South Hall, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Lada Adamic is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information and an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: Rhonda McEwen
202 South Hall, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
New media scholar Rhonda McEwen examines the context for the emergence of social media.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: Clark Quinn
202 South Hall, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Explore the future of learning design, where we look to transcend learning with truly transformative experiences, with Clark Quinn, Ph.D.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Dean's Lecture
Speaker: Pamela Samuelson
202 South Hall, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Pamela Samuelson explains why she thinks the failure of the Google Books Settlement was inevitable.