Dean's Lectures

Upcoming Events

Equitable Algorithms: A Social Welfare Function Approach

Oct 31, 2018, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how and why algorithms can be designed for fairness.

GDPR: Big Data, Big Responsibility

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes big responsibilities for organizations.

Previous Events

Analytics 3.0: Big Data and Small Data in Big and Small Companies

Sep 18, 2013, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Dean’s Lecture with Tom Davenport of Babson College, co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics

Sprinting with the Community

Sep 4, 2013, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Dean's Lecture, with Jon Whittle of Lancaster University

Transforming Health Care in the Information Age

Apr 10, 2013, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jack Cochran, MD, FACS, is the executive director of The Permanente Federation

Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense of Large Graphs

Nov 28, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The Discipline of Organizing: The Intellectual Intersection of the Information Schools

Oct 3, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Dean's Lecture, with Robert Glushko

Personality-Targeted Design: Theory, Experimental Procedure, and Preliminary Results

Sep 12, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Oded Nov is an assistant professor of management at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. His talk will introduce a framework for personality-targeted design, much like a medical treatment based on a specific genetic profile.

Empowering Libraries, Archives, and Museums with Crowd-sourced Human Computation and Linked Open Data

Apr 25, 2012, 4:10 pm to 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.

An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks

Apr 4, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How do companies use Facebook to investigate potential employees? And does Facebook facilitate illegal employment bias?

Social Substrates: People and the data they make

Feb 29, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

David A. Shamma is a media artist and research scientist studying creative expression and sharing at Yahoo! Research.

The Credibility Crisis in Computational Science: An Information Issue

Feb 1, 2012, 4:10 pm to 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.

The Digital Transformation of National Identity

Nov 16, 2011, 4:10 pm to 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?

Digital Diversity: Exploring Global Media By Starting With Culture and Community

Oct 19, 2011, 4:10 pm to 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.

Information Dynamics in a Socially Networked World

Oct 5, 2011, 4:10 pm to 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.

Mediating the Social: Consequences for transition, design, critique and praxis

Apr 27, 2011, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

New media scholar Rhonda McEwen examines the context for the emergence of social media.

Harnessing Magic: Learning Experience Design

Apr 20, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Explore the future of learning design, where we look to transcend learning with truly transformative experiences, with Clark Quinn, Ph.D.

Why the Google Book Settlement Failed – and What Comes Next?

Apr 13, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Pamela Samuelson explains why she thinks the failure of the Google Books Settlement was inevitable.

Health Care and the New Economy

Mar 16, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Scott Young, M.D., discusses how the US health care system is responding to health care reform and the economic downturn with patient-centricity, health information technology, and integrated delivery systems.

Towards a Citizen Internet: the Opportunity for Civic Software

Mar 9, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, discusses how hackers and designers can help re-craft government and build a “citizen Internet.”

Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies

Feb 28, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Susan Landau is a fellow at Harvard University and the author of Surveillance or Security? and Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption.

The Lean Startup: Innovation Through Experimentation

Feb 23, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog "Startup Lessons Learned".

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