From anita1 at MIT.EDU Mon Mar 1 10:28:54 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:28:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] This Friday Evocative Objects Symposium Message-ID: Hi all, Hope you can make it to the Evocative Objects Symposium coming up this Friday. Sandy is representing the group at the 4:15pm panel. Hope to see you there! Anita ------------------------------------ MIT Initiative on Technology and Self http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/techself/ Evocative Objects 2004 Symposium Friday March 5, 2004 MIT, Killian Hall Morning Session (Killian Hall - 14W - 111) 8:00-8:30 Breakfast 8:30-9:00 Sherry Turkle, MIT, Science, Technology, and Society Director of the Initiative on Technology and Self Welcome: Things We Think With 9:00-10:00 Mitchel Resnick, MIT, Media Lab Stars of My Childhood 10:00-11:15 Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, MIT, Media Lab Caroline Jones, MIT, Architecture; and Krzysztof Wodiczko, MIT, Architecture A Conversation: Are Aesthetic Objects Transitional Objects? 11:15-11:30 Break 11:30-12:30 Tod Machover, MIT, Media Lab My Cello: Listening, Touch, and Evocative Music 12:30-2:00 Real/Faux Lunch (Media Lab Atrium - E15) Everyone is encouraged to bring examples of their favorite real and faux objects -- from Mont Blanc to Prada. Afternoon Session (Killian Hall - 14W - 111) 2:00-3:00 Anne Pollock, MIT, History and Social Study of Science and Technology Technology to the Heart: Experiences of Internal Defibrillators 3:00-4:00 David Gordon Mitten, Harvard University, Classical Art and Archaeology Archaic Native American stone three-quarter-grooved axehead, from Holmes County, Ohio. Date: around 3400 B.C. 4:00-4:15 Break 4:15-5:30 Working Group Leaders MIT Initiative on Technology and Self Panel and audience discussion: What have we learned about Evocative Objects? 6:00 Reception (MIT Faculty Club - E52-6th Floor) From anita1 at MIT.EDU Tue Mar 9 14:30:20 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:30:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Itself] Special STS Seminar: Liberty by Design (fwd) Message-ID: Please feel free to pass this announcement on to others who may be interested in attending. Liberty by Design: The Internet as a Technology of Freedom and Control Emerging Internet Technology and Policy Issues A 4-session seminar Offered by Alan Davidson, Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT Tuesdays: March 16 & 30 and April 13 & 27, 2004 4:00 - 6:00PM, Room E51-151, MIT Old conventional wisdom states that the Internet is an unstoppable force for freedom. The new conventional wisdom is that the Internet can be a powerful tool of control. Largely by happenstance, the original design of the Internet open, decentralized, and extensible has supported Western democratic ideals: free expression, individual privacy, and participation by a diversity of speakers, creators, and technology developers. Today many of these values are now threatened by policy choices being debated in government and technology choices being debated by product developers and technology standards bodies. How do we reconcile these competing visions of the Internet’s potential? This series will explore the ways in which the Internet's potential as a technology of freedom is being influenced by current technology and policy debates and seek to chart a path for developing an Internet designed with liberty in mind. Seminar 1 Tuesday, March 16, 2004 · Free Speech by Design: Next Generation Internet Content Regulation - The free flow of information online is today threatened as national governments develop new ways to regulate Internet content and as new gatekeepers from ISPs to search engines emerge as attractive targets for content regulation. Can policy and technology choices serve to preserve free speech online? Seminar 2 Tuesday, March 30 · Privacy by Design: The Golden Age of Government Surveillance - Information technology is giving government ever greater capabilities to observe the private activities of the citizenry. Efforts are underway to expand legal surveillance authority (like the controversial US Patriot Act) and create new surveillance technologies (like “guaranteed tap-ability” for Internet phone calls.) How can new imperatives for national security be reconciled with growing threats to personal privacy? Seminar 3 Tuesday, April 13 · Privacy by Design: Corporate Data Collection in the Digital Age - Consumers face a rising tide of information collection about their personal lives, from better corporate database to new technologies like RFID, cell phone location tracking, and ubiquitous networks of embedded computers. How can law and product design serve to protect privacy in the face of marketplace data collection? Seminar 4 Tuesday, April 27 · Fair Use by Design: Copyright and Creative Production - The threat of digital piracy has led copyright owners to seek laws that mandate new technological locks for their content threatening to constrain valuable uses of information and create new gatekeepers over content online. Can the public interest in access to content and innovation be reconciled with these efforts to protect content online? Alan Davidson is Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington, DC public interest organization working to promote civil liberties and human rights on the Internet. Mr. Davidson, a graduate of MIT, received an S.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science and an S.M. in Technology and Policy. He attended law school at Yale, where he was Symposium Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Mr. Davidson is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and a Visiting Scholar this semester at STS. Kris Kipp Project Manager Program in Science, Technology, and Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Mass. Ave., E51-185 Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 617-253-9759 Fax: 617-258-8118 Email: kipp at mit.edu