FW: NCDG Spring 2005 Seminar Series

[Tom Johnson]

FYI for folks in the Boston area.

-tom

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NCDG Seminar Series

                                Spring 2005


January 12, 2005, Swiss Consulate, 420 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, Noon?1:30
p.m.*
Duncan J. Watts, Columbia University (videocast)
Comment by Stephen Borgatti, Boston College
Title: Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
(RSVP required)

February 7, 2005, Bell Hall, Noon ? 1:30 p.m.*
James S. Fishkin, Stanford University
Comment by Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University
Title: Realizing Deliberative Democracy: Online and Face to Face
Possibilities

March 14, 2005, Bell Hall, Noon ? 1:30 p.m.*
Pamela J. Hinds, Stanford University
Title: Dynamics in Internationally Distributed Teams

April 4, 2005, Bell Hall, Noon ? 1:30 p.m.
Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University
Title: Does Info Tech Energize Young Voters?  Experimental Evidence from
the
2002 and 2004 Elections

April 11, 2005, Bell Hall, Noon ? 1:30 p.m.
C. Suzanne Iacono, The National Science Foundation
Title: Cyber-Infrastructure for the People: Getting There From Here

April 13, 2005, Swiss Consulate, 420 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, Noon ? 1:30
p.m.*
John H. Holland, University of Michigan
Title: A Model of Language Acquisition and Evolution

*Co-sponsored with the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social
Networks


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[Parks, Raymond]

Tom Johnson wrote:

> FYI for folks in the Boston area.

   I'm not in the Boston area, but the two presentations mentioned below
in conjunction with Nick's MOO message reminded me of something.

> April 4, 2005, Bell Hall, Noon ? 1:30 p.m.
> Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University
> Title: Does Info Tech Energize Young Voters?  Experimental Evidence from
> the
> 2002 and 2004 Elections
>
> April 11, 2005, Bell Hall, Noon ? 1:30 p.m.
> C. Suzanne Iacono, The National Science Foundation
> Title: Cyber-Infrastructure for the People: Getting There From Here

   The original freenet, free-access community networks, was a program
advocated by Eric S. Raymond.  There are still lots of freenets in the
US and Canada, but the ubiquity of better 'net access is steadily
eroding that community.  Interestingly, USAID has sponsored freenets in
the FSU and elsewhere.

   The current freenet is a set of software program intended to help
those who face official censorship of the Internet and particularly the
World-Wide Web.  I don't know much about it, and I certainly haven't
assessed its security.

   In some ways, the successor of the old freenet is the wireless
community networks mentioned in a posting to this list over the weekend.

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