Dean's Lectures

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Patent Reform: Lessons Learned and What's Next for Startups

Sep 10, 2014, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Julie Samuels discusses recent battles for patent reform and recounts lessons learned.

Apr 23, 2014, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The new frontier in user interfaces is a constellation of wearable gadgets, tablets, smart phones, appliances, and more that can communicate with one another autonomously.

Online Ads and Offline Sales: Measuring the Effects of Online Advertising via a Controlled Experiment on Yahoo!

Feb 12, 2014, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Does online advertising actually work? Google scientist David Reiley says it does — but not in the way you expect. In this lecture, he reveals the surprising impact of online advertising on bricks-and-mortar sales.

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.

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