I School Lectures

Previous events

Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

“Your data will only be used in aggregated form.” — what does this statement mean, and why is it so often included in privacy policies? And does this practice actually protect your privacy?

Caring for Chronic Health Conditions: Designing for Collaborative Reflection

Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Gabriela Marcu designs health information systems that fit social practices and workflow, to alleviate the strain that chronic conditions place on our healthcare system.

Privacy and Inferences: Measurement, Detection, and Protection

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Jessica Staddon is a research scientist and privacy product lead at Google working on leveraging data for better security and privacy.

Skills Gap and Online Education

Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Lynda Weinman is co-founder and executive chair of lynda.com

Leveraging Workforce Science to Unlock Employee Value

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

It works for marketing. It works for finance. And now, big data and predictive analytics are working for HR.

Securing Cyberspace: A National Priority

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

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.

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

Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

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

Changing the Nature of Work

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 4:10 pm - 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!

Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 4:10 pm - 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

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

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

Sprinting with the Community

Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Dean's Lecture, with Jon Whittle of Lancaster University

Transforming Health Care in the Information Age

Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

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

Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense of Large Graphs

Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

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

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Dean's Lecture, with Robert Glushko

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

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 4:10 pm - 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

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 4:10 pm - 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

Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 4:10 pm - 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

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 4:10 pm - 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

Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 4:10 pm - 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

Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 4:10 pm - 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?