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Casting a Wider Net: Delivering News on the Censored Internet

Jan 27, 2012, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Karl Kathuria of the BBC World Service discusses the challenges of broadcasting the news to countries with governmental Internet censorship, like Iran and China.

Howard Rheingold<br />(photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2121488118/">Joi Ito</a>)

Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy

Jan 23, 2012, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy

Surveying the Changing Cultural Record

Jan 20, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

MIMS Application Deadline

Jan 6, 2012, 11:59 pm

CONNECT Code-A-Thon

Dec 15, 2011, 8:00 am to Dec 16, 2011, 6:00 pm

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 7, 2011, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Information Systems & Service Design: Project Presentations

Dec 6, 2011, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 5, 2011, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun. (Exhibition repeats on Wednesday, December 7.)

Ph.D. Application Deadline

Dec 2, 2011, 11:59 pm

Biomedical Libraries in the Next Decades: Open, Diffuse, and Very Personal

Dec 2, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

David Weinberger (photo by Leah Weinberger)

Too Big to Know: How the new dimensions of information are transforming business — and life

Nov 30, 2011, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

David Weinberger is one of the most respected thought-leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His new book, Too Big to Know, explores how the networking of knowledge is transforming expertise and decision-making in business, government, education, and science.

Networked Journalism and a Public Right to Hear in an Age of Newsware and APIs

Nov 21, 2011, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

The public “right to hear” has historically underpinned models of democratic freedom and press autonomy. What does a public right to hear mean in networked environments?

Europeana and Beyond: User Interaction and Collaboration in Multilingual Cultural Heritage Information Systems

Nov 18, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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?

Online Admissions Chat

Nov 16, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and learn more about life at the I School.

The Extreme Craft Roadshow

Nov 9, 2011, 6:10 pm to 7:30 pm

Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, a blog which vacillates gleefully between playful, provocative, and downright rude, presents a fast-paced hour of the website’s “greatest hits”, proving that the lines between art, craft, and design have become hopelessly blurred.

Information Access Old and New

Nov 4, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Nineteenth-century information-access techniques (indexing, cataloging, classification), implemented successfully in the 20th century (online catalogs, Medline, OCLC, etc.), now seem outmoded and irrelevant in the Web 2.0 era. Are today's techniques just old wine in new bottles? Or really new and different?

Three Social Studies

Oct 28, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Three doctoral students present research projects about information systems and Chinese migrant workers, the politics of information sharing in disaster relief, and what happens when online communities meet in real life.

Why PowerPoint Is the Biggest Software Pirate and How It Can Be Fixed

Oct 26, 2011, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Finding and using externally produced media is typically a cumbersome process. New software provides access to various legal sources of images built right into the creative workflow and automates the process of attribution.

Nuclear Forensics: A Scientific Search Problem

Oct 21, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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