Monthly Archives: November 2008

Stuart Shieber and the Future of Open Access Publishing

Posted on November 23, 2008 by vcs

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Developing world, Economics, Intellectual Property, Open Science, Talks, Technology | 1 Comment

Craig Newmark: "no vision, but I know how to keep things simple, and I can listen some"

Posted on November 14, 2008 by vcs

Craig 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkman, Internet and Democracy, Media, Technology | 1 Comment

Sunstein speaks on extremism

Posted on November 3, 2008 by vcs

Cass 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, … Continue reading →

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