Lunchtime Discussions

Everyone is invited, regardless of background or status. The discussions do not assume any specialized knowledge of technology, public policy, or any other field. The goal is to learn from each other.

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Lunches are usually on Thursdays, 12:30 -1:30 pm in Conference Room 306, 3rd Floor of Sherrerd Hall, unless otherwise noted.

Food at 12:30 pm. Discussion begins at 12:45 pm. Everyone invited.

Upcoming Lunches

Fall 2009
Dec 03 Amir Goldberg - Culture Mining: How Can We Use the Internet to Open the Black Box We Call ‘Culture’?
Dec 08 TUESDAY - 12:15 PM - Lewis Shepherd - Federal Government Technology: Way Ahead and Far Behind
Dec 17 Deven Desai - Individual Branding: How the Rise of Individual Creation and Distribution of Cultural Products Confuses the Intellectual Property System
April 15 Michael Schudson - Between Narrative and Database: Intimations of a New Journalism

Past Lunches

Fall 2009
Nov 19 Paul Laskowski - The Economics of Virtualization
Nov 17 TUESDAY - 12:15 PM - Balachander Krishnamurthy - On the Internet Someone Knows You Are a Dog
Oct 29 Laura Forlano - Activist Infrastructures: Alternative Models for Building Municipal and Community Wireless Networks
Oct 20 TUESDAY - 12:15 PM - Beth Noveck - Open Government: Instilling a Culture of Transparency, Participation and Collaboration in Public Institutions
Oct 15 Jens Grossklags - Privacy, Notice and Incentives in the Market for Consumer Software
Oct 06 TUESDAY - Charles Perrow - Computer Systems Security as an Organizational Problem
Oct 01 Betsy Masiello - Privacy in the Age of Information Abundance
Spring 2009
April 30 Jorge Schement - Salsa, Piñatas, and La Migra: Latinos and the Challenges of Information Policy
April 23 Jerry Brito - Crowdsourcing Accountability
April 17 Friday Forum - 12:15 PM: Jens Grossklags: Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Job Talk - “Secure or Insure? Security Investment (failures) in Five Economic Environments”
Mar 26 Open Thread - Round robin discussion of Center members’ latest projects and interests
Mar 19 Frank Corrado and Grayson Barber - Internet Defamation: Chilling Effects and Remedies
Mar 12 Adam Thierer - The Future of the First Amendment in an Age of Technological Convergence
Mar 05 Rebecca MacKinnon - Cyber-ocracy or Cyber-tarianism? The Internet in China
Feb 26 Edward Felten - Debugging our Cyber-Security Policy
Feb 12 Edward Tenner
Feb 05 Ben Peters - The Free Market Failure of the Soviet Internet
Fall 2008
Dec 11 David Molnar - Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Security and Privacy
Dec 04 Building a Transparent and Trustworthy Government — Washington, DC Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra
Nov 20 Timothy Lee - The Future of Driving
Nov 13 Christian B. Hicks - Giant Robots, Circumvention and the DMCA: StorageTek v. CHE
Nov 6 Post Election Discussion
Oct 23 Matt Salganik, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and CITP Faculty Affiliate: Community-generated and community-sorted information
Oct 16 Vivek Pai, Assistant Professor of Computer Science: Cache Storage for the Next Billion
Oct 09 Molly Steenson: Shared and Sometimes Stealthy: Urban India’s Mobile Phone
Oct 02 Joshua Goldstein: Internet, Democracy and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sept 25 U.S. v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later. Ed Felten will speak about how the Microsoft antitrust case is seen, ten years after it began, and on a recent conference at Harvard on that topic.
Sept 18 Pablo Hinojosa: CITP Visiting Research Collaborator. He works for ICANN as member of its Global Partnerships team, responsible for implementing internationalization strategies for this organization.
Spring 2008
May 01 Marc E. Fiuczynski, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University, R&D Staff member, PlanetLab Consortium - Information Technology in Africa: A Journey from Grassroots Research to Policy Reform
April 24 Harriet Pearson, Chief Privacy Officer, IBM - How to Think about Privacy in a Web 2.0 (and Beyond) World
April 17 Future Directions of Policy Lunch
April 10 Case Study: “Phorm” — Online Marketing Through Network Hacks
April 4 Voluntary Collective Licensing for Music Downloads
Mar. 27 NJ Voting Machine Discrepancies
Mar. 13 JuicyCampus.com Debate
Mar. 6 Privacy Breaches, Technology and the Law
Feb. 28 Wiki-government
Feb. 21 The Surveillance Debate
Feb. 14 Crowdsourcing Wireless Coverage
Feb. 7 Enhancing Social Cyberspaces
Fall 2007
Dec. 13 Annual predictions
Dec. 13 Candidates’ Ignorance of Technology
Dec. 6 Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market
Nov. 29 Whose Space?
Nov. 8 Improving the Patent System
Oct. 25 Patent Tutorial
Oct. 4 Unlocking and Relocking the iPhone
Sep. 27 “State of the Art”? Staying up to date in the digital environment
Sep. 20 Computing in the Cloud
Spring 2007
May 3 The Future
Apr. 26 Healthcare and Privacy
Apr. 19 Blogger’s Code of Conduct
Apr. 12 The Myth of the Superuser
Apr. 5 EMI introduces DRM-free Music
Mar. 29 COPA, and protecting kids from bad content
Mar. 15 Software as a Service
Mar. 8 Wireless Network Neutrality
Feb. 15 Botnets and Public Policy
Feb. 8 Hannah Ross on e-Discovery
Fall 2006
Dec. 14 2006 in Review, 2007 Predictions
Dec. 7 Gadget Mania
Nov. 30 Second Life Copybot
Nov. 16 Open Source Economics
Nov. 9 YouTube
Oct. 12 Regulating Online Gambling
Oct. 5 HP Spying Scandal
Sep. 21 Diebold Electronic Voting Security
Spring 2006
May 4 Eszter Hargittai: The Role of Skill in Internet Use
Apr. 27 Cameron Wilson, ACM Policy Director
Apr. 20 Cory Ondrejka, Linden Labs
Apr. 13 Shirley Gaw
Apr. 6 Network Neutrality
Mar. 30 Wikipedia
Mar. 9 Online Reptutation Systems
Mar. 2 FaceBook, MySpace, and the risk of revealing too much
Feb. 23 Computing in the developing world
Feb. 16 US tech companies in China
Feb. 9 NSA eavesdropping program
Fall 2005
Dec. 15 The Sony CD DRM episode