Category Archives: Conferences

Science and Video: a roadmap

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

Once again I find myself in the position of having collected slides from talks, and having audio from the sessions. I need a simple way to pin these together so they form a coherent narrative and I need a common … Continue reading →

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My Symposium at the AAAS Annual Meeting: The Digitization of Science

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

Yesterday I held a symposium at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington DC, called “The Digitization of Science: Reproducibility and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer,” that was intended to bring attention to how massive computation is changing the practice of science, particularly … Continue reading →

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Code Repository for Machine Learning: mloss.org

Posted on January 26, 2010 by vcs

The folks at mloss.org — Machine Leaning Open Source Software — invited a blog post on my roundtable on data and code sharing, held at Yale Law School last November. mloss.org’s philosophy is stated as: “Open source tools have recently … Continue reading →

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What's New at Science Foo Camp 2009

Posted on July 31, 2009 by vcs

SciFoo is a wonderful annual gathering of thinkers about science. It’s an unconference and people who choose to speak do so. Here’s my reaction to a couple of these talks. In Pete Worden’s discussion of modeling future climate change, I … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates to Development Researchers: Create and Share Statistics

Posted on June 8, 2009 by vcs

I was recently in Doha, Qatar, presenting my research on global communication technology use and democratic tendency at ICTD09. I spoke right before the keynote, Bill Gates, whose main point was that when you engage in a goal-oriented activity, such … Continue reading →

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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 →

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A2K3: Connectivity and Democratic Ideals

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

Also in the final A2K3 panel, The Global Public Sphere: Media and Communication Rights, Natasha Primo, National ICT policy advocacy coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications, discusses three questions that happen to be related to my current research. 1) … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Communication Rights as a Framework for Global Connectivity

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

In the last A2K3 panel, entitled The Global Public Sphere: Media and Communication Rights, Seán Ó Siochrú made some striking statements based on his experience building local communication networks in undeveloped areas of LCDs. He states that the global public … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Opening Scientific Research Requires Societal Change

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

In the A2K3 panel on Open Access to Science and Research, Eve Gray, from the Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, sees the Open Access movement as a real societal change. Accordingly she shows us a picture of … Continue reading →

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Legal Barriers to Open Science: my SciFoo talk

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

I had an amazing time participating at Science Foo Camp this year. This is a unique conference: there are 200 invitees comprising some of the most innovative thinkers about science today. Most are scientists but not all – there are … Continue reading →

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A2K3 Kaltura Award

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

I am honored and humbled to win the A2K3 Kaltura prize for best paper. Peter Suber posts about it here and gives the abstract. His post also includes a link to a draft of the paper, which can also be … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Technological Standards are Public Policy

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

Laura DeNardis, executive director of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, spoke during the A2K3 panel on Technologies for Access. She makes the point that many of our technological standards are being made behind closed doors and by private, largely … Continue reading →

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A2K3: A World Trade Agreement for Knowledge?

Posted on September 8, 2008 by vcs

Thiru Balasubramanian, Geneva Representative for Knowledge Ecology International presents a proposal (from a forthcoming paper by James Love and Manon Ress) for a WTO treaty on knowledge (so far all WTO agreements extend to private goods only). Since information is … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Access to Knowledge as a Human Right

Posted on September 8, 2008 by vcs

Building on the opening remarks, the second panel addresses Human right and Access to Knowledge. Caroline Dommen, director of 3D, an advocacy group promoting human rights consideration in trade agreements, emphasizes the need for metrics: how can we tell how … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Tim Hubbard on Open Science

Posted on September 8, 2008 by vcs

In the first panel at A2K3 on the history, impact, and future of the global A2K movement, Tim Hubbard, a genetics researcher, laments that scientists tend to carry out their work in a closed way and thus very little data … Continue reading →

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Access to Knowledge 3: Opening Remarks

Posted on September 8, 2008 by vcs

I’m at my first Access to Knowledge conference in Geneva and I’ve never felt so important. Walking to the Centre International de Conférences in Geneva I passed the UN High Commission for Refugees and I’m sitting in an enormous tiered … Continue reading →

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Vacations or "Vacations" :)

Posted on June 28, 2008 by vcs

I’m here at the Global Voices Summit in Budapest and I just listened to a panel on Rising Voices, a group within Global Voices dedicated to supporting the efforts of people traditionally underrepresented in citizen media. (See their trailer here). … Continue reading →

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Amartya Sen at the Aurora Forum at Stanford University: Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty

Posted on April 5, 2008 by vcs

This is a one day conference to commemorate Martin Luther King’s “The Other America” in his 1967 speech at Stanford, and heed that speech’s call to create a more just world. Mark Gonnerman, director of the Aurora Forum introduces the … Continue reading →

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Do you Know Where Your News Is? Predictions for 2013 by Media Experts:

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman Center, is moderating a panel on the future of news at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. The panelists were given two minutes and gave us some soundbites. Paul Steiger is Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica, a non … Continue reading →

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Media Re:public Forum Panel on Participatory Media: Defining Success, Measuring Impact

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Margaret Duffy is a Professor from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and she is speaking at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. She leads a Citizen Media Participation project to create a taxonomy of news categories and get a sense … Continue reading →

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John Kelly: Parsing the Political Blogosphere

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

John Kelly is a doctoral student a Columbia’s School of Communications, a startup founder (Morningside Analytics), as well as doing collaborative work with Berkman. He’s speaking Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. Kelly says he takes an ecosystem approach to studying the … Continue reading →

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David Weinberger: How new technologies and behaviors are changing the news

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

David Weinberger is a fellow and colleague of mine at the Berkman Center and is at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum discussing the difference the web is making to journalism: “what’s different about the web when it comes to media and … Continue reading →

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Robert Suro: Defining the qualities of information our democracy needs

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Robert Suro is a professor of journalism at USC and spoke today at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. His talk concerns journalism’s role in democratic processes and he draws two distinctions in how we think about journalism that often get conflated: … Continue reading →

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Richard Sambrook at the Media Re:public Forum

Posted on March 27, 2008 by vcs

I’m at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum and Richard Sambrook, director of Global News at the BBC is giving the first talk. He is something of a technological visionary and his primary concern is with how technology is affecting the ability … Continue reading →

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