Posts filed under 'Berkman Luncheon Series'
Tim Wu is a policy advocate, a professor at Columbia Law School, and the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine, and in 2007 Wu was listed as one of Harvard’s 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine.
Here he discusses themes and ideas from his most recent book “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.”
Click Above for Video
..or download the OGG video format!
January 11th, 2011
In a few short years, app developers have already changed music’s role in our lives with new solutions for music discovery and recommendation, blog and news aggregators, music games, location-based listening, interactive remix apps, social music sharing, and countless other new music experiences.
However, most music application developers are locked out of the commercial music industry, unable to navigate the licensing maze, or to hire one of a few very well-connected deal makers necessary to launch a licensed service comprised of the same popular music available to larger players.
Jim Lucchese — CEO of Echo Nest and a former music lawyer — discusses the specific needs and vast potential of the growing music app development community, citing examples of new and innovative music applications, illuminating the licensing challenges holding back innovation in music, and offering a new way forward: the use of open developer APIs to forge a stronger digital music industry.
Download the MP3
…or download the OGG audio format!
January 4th, 2011
In a few short years, app developers have already changed music’s role in our lives with new solutions for music discovery and recommendation, blog and news aggregators, music games, location-based listening, interactive remix apps, social music sharing, and countless other new music experiences.
However, most music application developers are locked out of the commercial music industry, unable to navigate the licensing maze, or to hire one of a few very well-connected deal makers necessary to launch a licensed service comprised of the same popular music available to larger players.
Jim Lucchese — CEO of Echo Nest and a former music lawyer — discusses the specific needs and vast potential of the growing music app development community, citing examples of new and innovative music applications, illuminating the licensing challenges holding back innovation in music, and offering a new way forward: the use of open developer APIs to forge a stronger digital music industry.
Click Above for Video
…or download the OGG video format!
January 4th, 2011
The real challenge of community calendaring isn’t technical. It’s conceptual. Most people don’t know how they could (or why they should) be the authoritative publishers of their own data. This comes from a lack of understanding of some of basic concepts of computing, including:
The pub/sub communication pattern
Indirection (“pass-by-reference” vs “pass-by-value”)
Structured versus unstructured data
Data provenance
Service composition
Along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, these “Fourth R” principles will empower an informed and engaged 21st-century citizenry. As Jeannette Wing argues in her computational thinking manifesto, computer and information scientists are no longer the only ones who need to understand and apply these principles.
Jon Udell—senior technical evangelist for Microsoft—draws from the experience of developing elmcity—a project for publishing community calendar events in a simple, structured, subscribable format—to explore Fourth R principles, why they’re hard for most people to understand, how we can teach them, and why we should.
Click Above for Video
…or download the OGG video format!
December 7th, 2010
The real challenge of community calendaring isn’t technical. It’s conceptual. Most people don’t know how they could (or why they should) be the authoritative publishers of their own data. This comes from a lack of understanding of some of basic concepts of computing, including:
The pub/sub communication pattern
Indirection (“pass-by-reference” vs “pass-by-value”)
Structured versus unstructured data
Data provenance
Service composition
Along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, these “Fourth R” principles will empower an informed and engaged 21st-century citizenry. As Jeannette Wing argues in her computational thinking manifesto, computer and information scientists are no longer the only ones who need to understand and apply these principles.
Jon Udell—senior technical evangelist for Microsoft—draws from the experience of developing elmcity—a project for publishing community calendar events in a simple, structured, subscribable format—to explore Fourth R principles, why they’re hard for most people to understand, how we can teach them, and why we should.
Download the MP3
…or download the OGG audio format!
December 7th, 2010
In order to support youth in a community, who needs to communicate what information to whom, through which media? Which barriers are in the way of such communication, and how might these barriers be overcome? And what are the devil(s) in the details of just “adding tech”?
In the OneVille Project, students, teachers, parents, mentors, techies, and researchers are co-designing and pilot-testing a toolbox of open source “community communication tools” supporting students individually, across schools, and citywide.
Mica Pollock—an anthropologist of education and Somerville parent—shares her early thoughts on this collective effort to understand and improve a city’s ecosystem of communications.
Click Above for Video
…or download the OGG video format!
December 1st, 2010
In order to support youth in a community, who needs to communicate what information to whom, through which media? Which barriers are in the way of such communication, and how might these barriers be overcome? And what are the devil(s) in the details of just “adding tech”?
In the OneVille Project, students, teachers, parents, mentors, techies, and researchers are co-designing and pilot-testing a toolbox of open source “community communication tools” supporting students individually, across schools, and citywide.
Mica Pollock—an anthropologist of education and Somerville parent—shares her early thoughts on this collective effort to understand and improve a city’s ecosystem of communications.
Download the MP3
…or download the OGG audio format!
November 30th, 2010
We are witnessing escalating evidence of human destabilization of the climate and biodiversity loss. In the sustainability community, both activists and practitioners are increasingly turning to the internet to foster new lifestyles, consumption patterns and ways of producing. There has been an explosion of web-enabled innovations around consumption sharing and extra-market exchange in order to reduce footprint.
In this talk Juliet Schor—Professor of Sociology at Boston College and author of the new book “Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth”— discusses these innovations, highlighting cutting-edge examples where peer production and open-source practices accelerate the spread of sustainable practices in agriculture, consumption and manufacturing.
Click Above for Video
…or download the OGG video format!
November 18th, 2010
We are witnessing escalating evidence of human destabilization of the climate and biodiversity loss. In the sustainability community, both activists and practitioners are increasingly turning to the internet to foster new lifestyles, consumption patterns and ways of producing. There has been an explosion of web-enabled innovations around consumption sharing and extra-market exchange in order to reduce footprint.
In this talk Juliet Schor—Professor of Sociology at Boston College and author of the new book “Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth”— discusses these innovations, highlighting cutting-edge examples where peer production and open-source practices accelerate the spread of sustainable practices in agriculture, consumption and manufacturing.
Download the MP3
…or download the OGG audio format!
November 16th, 2010
The internet provides an unprecedented opportunity for social scientists to recruit a large pool of subjects quickly, cheaply, and virtually effortlessly. Online labor markets, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), is one place where social scientists can easily find subjects to participate in unique cooperation studies in exchange for cash (where pay depends on choices in the study, rather just a flat rate). These labor markets also facilitate field studies, where ‘subjects’ are unaware they are in an experiment, but instead think they are just completing normal work tasks.
Dave Rand—a Cooperation Fellow at the Berkman Center, as well as a Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics—describes designing and running experiments using MTurk, some successful experiments, and the lessons learned thus far.
(Click here for a pdf of Dave’s slides)
Click Above for Video
…or download the OGG video format!
November 3rd, 2010
Next Posts
Previous Posts
