[Sci-tech-public] "Higher Ed in Networked Age" - Nov. 18 panel discussion

[Judy Spitzer]

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                          No More Teachers?  No More Books? :

                 HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NETWORKED AGE

      a panel discussion presented by Harvard Extension School featuring

                     Craig Silverstein (Google),  Sherry Turkle (MIT),

             Robert Darnton (Harvard),  David Weinberger (Berkman Center)

Wednesday, November 18,  4:00pm
Lowell Lecture Hall
Harvard University
Corner of Oxford & Kirkland Streets
This event is free and open to the public.

>Panelists include:
>                 Craig Silverstein, Google's "Employee #1" and 
> director of technology

>                 Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of 
> the Social Study of
>Science and Technology at MIT, author of The Second Self: Computers and
>the Human Spirit, and editor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With,
>as well as the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology
>and Self, and a featured media commentator on many network and cable 
>news programs.

>                 David Weinberger, PhD, fellow at the Berkman Center 
> for Internet and
>Society, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as
>Usual and Everything is Miscellaneous, and a frequent writer and blogger
>whose work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships,
>communication, and society

>                 Robert Darnton, Carl Pforzheimer Professor of 
> History and director of
>the Harvard University Library, a distinguished scholar whose writings
>include The Case for Books and a recent New York Review of Books article,
>"Google & the Future of Books," in which he reflects on the Google book
>digitization project
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>Moderated by:  Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer 
>Science at Harvard,
>co-author Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the 
>Digital Explosion
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>http://www.extension.harvard.edu/centennial/
>Harvard Extension School
>51 Brattle Street
>Cambridge, MA  02138
>(617) 495-4024
>www.extension.harvard.edu
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