Title: Susan Crawford: Computers and Society lecture
Location: NYU\’s Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer St
Description: Susan Crawford joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School on July 1, 2008. She teaches internet law and communications law. Last year she was a visiting professor at Michigan and at Yale Law School (spring 2008). She is a member of the board of directors of ICANN and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22.
Start Time: 15:30
Date: 2008-12-01
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Title: Andrew Rasiej: “Democracy, Civic Action, and Politics in a Networked World”
Location: NYU’s Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer St.
Description:
Andrew Rasiej is a social entrepreneur and the Founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and community website about the intersection of politics and technology. He is also the co-founder of techPresident. He has served as an adviser to Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Tom Daschle, Congressman Dick Gephardt, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on the use of Information Technology for campaign and policy purposes. Mr. Rasiej also maintains the position of senior technology adviser for the Sunlight Foundation.
Start Time: 15:30
Date: 2008-11-19
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Title: Larry Lessig: “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”
Location: NYU\’s Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer St.
Description: Lessig delivers a lecuter in the Computer and Society series.
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school\’s Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
For much of his career, Professor Lessig focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Professor Lessig is the author of Remix (2008), Code v2 (2007), Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He serves on the board of many organizations including the Creative Commons project which he founded.
Start Time: TBD
Date: 2008-11-09
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Title: Douglas Rushkoff:
Location: NYU\’s Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street
Description: Douglas Rushkoff will be speaking at the Computers and Society lecture series at NYU.
Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author of ten best-selling books, a professor at NYU\’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and an award-winning documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values.
Start Time: 03:30
Date: 2008-11-05
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