Projects | 2010 Institute Lecture
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor, Harvard Law School
Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
"Minds for Sale"
Cloud computing is not just for computing anymore: you can now find as much mindshare as you can afford out in the cloud, too. A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace. What are some of the issues arising as armies of thinkers are recruited by the thousands and millions? A fascinating (and non-scare-mongering) view is offered of a future in which nearly any mental act can be bought and sold.
When: February 18, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
Where: Teplitz Memorial Moot Courtroom in the Barco Law Building of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Watch lecture online: http://media.law.pitt.edu/video/021910_SFI_Lecture.mp4
Bio
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he co-founded its Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society. Previously he was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
He performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and Saudi Arabia in 2002, and now as part of the OpenNet Initiative he has co-edited a study of Internet filtering by national governments, "Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering."
His book "The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It" was released last year from Yale University Press and Penguin UK -- and under a Creative Commons license. Papers may be found at http://www.jz.org.
