Back in February Harvard adopted a mandate requiring its faculty member to make their research papers available within a year of publication. Stuart Shieber is a computer science professor at Harvard and responsible for proposing the policy. He has since been named director of Harvard’s new Office for Scholarly Communication.
On November 12 Shieber gave […]
Archive for November, 2008
Stuart Shieber and the Future of Open Access Publishing
Published November 23rd, 2008 in Developing world, Technology, Talks, Economics, Conferences, Intellectual Property and Open Science. 0 CommentsCraig Newmark: “no vision, but I know how to keep things simple, and I can listen some”
Published November 14th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media and Berkman. 1 CommentCraig Newmark was visiting the Berkman Center today and he explained how founding Craiglist brought him to his current role as community organizer. But these are really the same, he says.
In 1994, Craig was working at Charles Schwab where he evangelized the net - figuring that this is the future of business for these types […]
Sunstein speaks on extremism
Published November 3rd, 2008 in Technology, Media, Statistics, Economics and Law. 0 CommentsCass Sunstein, Professor at Harvard Law School, is speaking today on Extremism: Politics and Law. Related to this topic, he is the author of Nudge, Republic.com 2.0, and Infotopia. He discussed Republic 2.0 with Henry Farrell on this bloggingheads.tv diavlog, which touches on the theme of extremism in discourse and the web’s role is facilitating […]
