Distinguished Lecture Series

Previous events

The Revolution Will be Digitized: How IT is Affecting Business and Competition

Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology affects businesses and how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.

Computer Mediated Transactions

Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

What does the ubiquity of computer-mediated transactions mean for economics? Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, discusses the implications for contractual efficiency, incentive alignment, data extraction and analysis, experimentation, personalization, and customization.

Sustainable Innovation

Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Judy Estrin, the CEO of JLABS, LLC, and author of “Closing the Innovation Gap,” talks about the importance of reigniting sustainable innovation in business, education and government

Lessons from a Road Warrior

Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Economist John Rutledge discusses nonequilibrium thermodynamics, network failures and the information economy, and the role played by government officials and media in the neuroscience of fear, to demonstrate how the current global economic crisis is a network failure of the worldwide information system.

Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things

Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Oliver Guenther is Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. He discusses the privacy implications of the global IT infrastructure for physical objects carrying RFID tags with a unique Electronic Product Code.

Modeling & Managing Complex Systems: A Case Study of Healthcare Delivery

Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Modeling & Managing Complex Systems:
A Case Study of Healthcare Delivery

Bill Rouse, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wednesday, November 5, 4:00 pm

Blue Smoke, No Mirrors: Confessions of an Information User

Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

<a href="/about/events/dls20081008">Blue Smoke, No Mirrors: Confessions of an Information User</a> — Wednesday, October 8, 4:00 pm Alan Kantrow explains what's wrong with today's information services and how to fix them

Enterprise Uses of Emerging Technologies

Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Enterprise Uses of Emerging Technologies
Wednesday, October 1, 4:00 pm

Jonathan Grudin discusses technology's early adopters and what the future holds for them.

Digital Exhibitionism: The Future of Relationships?

Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Digital Exhibitionism: The Future of Relationships, Andreas Weigend Wednesday, September 10, 4:00 pm

Privacy in Context

Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Privacy in Context, Helen Nissenbaum
Wednesday, April 2, 4:00 pm

How should we understand the concept of privacy in the face of impossible demands for our personal information?

Is the Web a Threat to Our Culture?

Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Is the Web A Threat to Our Culture?
March 19, 4:00 pm

Join Andrew Keen and Paul Duguid in a debate about Web 2.0 , moderated by Geoffrey Nunberg.

Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Literacy Matters

Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Henry Jenkins "Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Literacy Matters" Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 4:00-5:30 pm

Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 3: Virtual Worlds

Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Mitch Kapor
"Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 3: Virtual Worlds"
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
South Hall

Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 2: The Internet and the World Wide Web

Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Mitch Kapor "Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 2: The Internet and the World Wide Web" Wednesday, November 14, 2007 South Hall

(Re-)Defining the Public Domain

Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Carl Malamud
"(Re-)Defining the Public Domain"
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 4:00-6:00 pm
202 South Hall

Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 1: The Personal Computer

Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Mitch Kapor
"Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 1: The Personal Computer"
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
South Hall

Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks
September 12, 2007, 4:00-6:00pm
South Hall

Pilot Project for a Future University

Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto "Pilot Project for a Future University" Wednesday, February 21, 2007 202 South Hall, 4:00pm-5:30pm

Democratizing Innovation

Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

"Democratizing Innovation"
Eric von Hippel, MIT
February 14, 2007, 4:00pm-5:30pm
202 South Hall

Mobile Network Society

Friday, November 17, 2006, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Manuel Castells, USC Mobile Network Society Friday, November 17, 2006, 12:30pm-2:00pm 202 South Hall