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Dean's Lectures

Upcoming Events

Josh Lauer
Knowing, Judging, Calculating: Consumer Credit Surveillance and the Infrastructure of Prediction
Oct 11, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
The untold history of our modern credit scoring system and how it emerged from a 19th-century surveillance infrastructure with huge archives of personal information.

Previous Events

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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.
Lada Adamic
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Jennifer Pahlka
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.”
Susan Landau
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.
Eric Ries
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".
Marnie Webb
Using Technology for Social Good
Feb 2, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
What challenges and opportunities do grassroots civil society organizations face as they use technology to build their capacity, engage their community, and deliver needed programs?
Victoria Stodden
The Digitization of Science and the Degradation of the Scientific Method
May 5, 2010, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
As the scientific enterprise becomes increasingly computational, new techniques are necessary for transparency and trustworthiness.
Leighton Read
Why Do We Have to Pay People to Work?
Apr 28, 2010, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Can the information industry import the focus and attention of video games and the massive collaboration of online role-playing games into the workplace?
Eric Goldman
Regulating Reputational Systems
Apr 14, 2010, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Eric Goldman is an Internet lawyer and law professor at Santa Clara University
Alessandro Acquisti
Predicting Social Security Numbers From Public Data
Oct 14, 2009, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Unexpected privacy consequences in modern information economies, novel privacy risks associated with public information revelation, and ways that well-meaning information security policies can backfire.

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