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Making the High Tech Economy: Markets, States, and Publics

Apr 22, 2009, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Seán Ó Riain discusses how governments can encourage or hinder high tech growth and innovation, with the Irish high tech region as an example.

"The Economics of Open Access" and "Metadata, Sex, and Amazon"

Apr 17, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

ICTD 2009 Conference

Apr 17, 2009, 8:00 am to Apr 19, 2009, 5:00 pm

The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009), in Doha, Qatar

Sustainable Innovation

Apr 15, 2009, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Judy Estrin, the CEO of JLABS, LLC, and author of “Closing the Innovation Gap,” talks about the importance of reigniting sustainable innovation in business, education and government

Reflections on the Google Booksearch Settlement

Apr 14, 2009, 3:00 pm

I School Professor Pamela Samuelson delivers the University of North Carolina's third annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The Wikipedia Revolution

Apr 1, 2009, 4:00 pm

Andrew Lih recounts colorful behind-the-scenes stories of how obsessive map editors, automated software robots, and warring factions have come to shape a complex online community of knowledge gatherers.

Stuart Shieber on Open Access

Mar 30, 2009, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Stuart Shieber, head of Harvard University’s Office of Scholarly Communication, discusses Harvard's mandate of open access for its faculty members’ research publications.

The World According to grep: What Have We Been Searching For?

Mar 20, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Defending Your Civil Liberties in Cyberspace

Mar 17, 2009, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Editing Historical Papers in a Digital Environment

Mar 13, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Designing for the Future of Interactive Entertainment

Mar 11, 2009, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Lessons from a Road Warrior

Mar 11, 2009, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Economist John Rutledge discusses nonequilibrium thermodynamics, network failures and the information economy, and the role played by government officials and media in the neuroscience of fear, to demonstrate how the current global economic crisis is a network failure of the worldwide information system.

Explaining Inequality Within and Between Information Societies

Mar 9, 2009, 4:00 pm

Philip Howard asks why technology advances more slowly in some societies than in others, and how policy-makers can help

Group Tour of Remodeled Bancroft Library

Mar 6, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure (WESII 2009)

Mar 5, 2009, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm

Career Fair

Mar 4, 2009, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

The Internets We Did Not Build

Mar 4, 2009, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

David Clark, formerly the Internet's Chief Protocol Architect, discusses the reasons for the design of the Internet and possible implications if it had been built differently.

Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web

Feb 27, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration

Feb 23, 2009, 4:00 pm

Student Progress Reports and iSchools Conference report

Feb 20, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

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