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Computer Science Colloquium Series
Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin G125
Speaker: Jonathan Zittrain
Title: Minds for Sale
Abstract: Cloud computing is not just for computing anymore: you can now find as much human mindshare as you can afford out in the cloud, too. A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace. What are some of the issues arising as armies of thinkers are recruited by the thousands and millions?
Bio: Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society and is on the board of advisors for Scientific American. Previously he was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University.
His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
He performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and Saudi Arabia in 2002, and now as part of the OpenNet Initiative he has co-edited a study of Internet filtering by national governments, “Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering,” and its sequel, “Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace.”
His book “The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It” is available from Yale University Press and Penguin UK — and under a Creative Commons license. Papers may be found at .
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