Distinguished Lecture Series

Previous events

Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology affects businesses and how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
What does the ubiquity of computer-mediated transactions mean for economics? Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, discusses the implications for contractual efficiency, incentive alignment, data extraction and analysis, experimentation, personalization, and customization.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Judy Estrin, the CEO of JLABS, LLC, and author of “Closing the Innovation Gap,” talks about the importance of reigniting sustainable innovation in business, education and government

Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Economist John Rutledge discusses nonequilibrium thermodynamics, network failures and the information economy, and the role played by government officials and media in the neuroscience of fear, to demonstrate how the current global economic crisis is a network failure of the worldwide information system.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Oliver Guenther is Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. He discusses the privacy implications of the global IT infrastructure for physical objects carrying RFID tags with a unique Electronic Product Code.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Modeling & Managing Complex Systems:
A Case Study of Healthcare Delivery


Bill Rouse, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wednesday, November 5, 4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

<b><a href="/about/events/dls20081008">Blue Smoke, No Mirrors: Confessions of an Information User</a></b> &mdash; Wednesday, October 8, 4:00 pm<br /><br />Alan Kantrow explains what's wrong with today's information services and how to fix them

Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Enterprise Uses of Emerging Technologies
Wednesday, October 1, 4:00 pm

Jonathan Grudin discusses technology's early adopters and what the future holds for them.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

<b>Digital Exhibitionism: The Future of Relationships</b>, Andreas Weigend<br /><br />Wednesday, September 10, 4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Privacy in Context, Helen Nissenbaum
Wednesday, April 2, 4:00 pm

How should we understand the concept of privacy in the face of impossible demands for our personal information?
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Is the Web A Threat to Our Culture?
March 19, 4:00 pm

Join Andrew Keen and Paul Duguid in a debate about Web 2.0 , moderated by Geoffrey Nunberg.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

<b>Henry Jenkins</b><br>"Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Literacy Matters"<br>Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 4:00-5:30 pm

Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Mitch Kapor
"Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 3: Virtual Worlds"
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
South Hall
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

<b>Mitch Kapor</b><br>"Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 2: The Internet and the World Wide Web"<br>Wednesday, November 14, 2007<br>South Hall

Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Carl Malamud
"(Re-)Defining the Public Domain"
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 4:00-6:00 pm
202 South Hall
Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Mitch Kapor
"Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 1: The Personal Computer"
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
South Hall
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks
September 12, 2007, 4:00-6:00pm
South Hall

Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

<b>Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto</b><br>"Pilot Project for a Future University"<br>Wednesday, February 21, 2007<br>202 South Hall, 4:00pm-5:30pm

Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

"Democratizing Innovation"
Eric von Hippel, MIT
February 14, 2007, 4:00pm-5:30pm
202 South Hall

Friday, November 17, 2006, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

<strong>Manuel Castells, USC</strong><br /><em>Mobile Network Society</em><br />Friday, November 17, 2006, 12:30pm-2:00pm<br />202 South Hall