I School Lectures

Frederick R. Chang is the director of SMU’s Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security and the former director of research at the National Security Agency.

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

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.

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.

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

Dean's Lecture, with Jon Whittle of Lancaster University

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

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.

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.

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

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

Victoria Stodden is a scholar of law, statistics, and computational science policy, and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.

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?

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 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.

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

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

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