Events

Seán Ó Riain discusses how governments can encourage or hinder high tech growth and innovation, with the Irish high tech region as an example.

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

I School Professor Pamela Samuelson delivers the University of North Carolina's third annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Andrew Lih recounts colorful behind-the-scenes stories of how obsessive map editors, automated software robots, and warring factions have come to shape a complex online community of knowledge gatherers.

Philip Howard asks why technology advances more slowly in some societies than in others, and how policy-makers can help

David Clark, formerly the Internet's Chief Protocol Architect, discusses the reasons for the design of the Internet and possible implications if it had been built differently.