Tag: Berkman Center for Internet & Society

  • Science & Tech

    Hyper-public spaces

    A symposium sponsored by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society explored the design of public and private spaces in the digital realm.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard at 375

    The University gets ready to celebrate its classic values, as well as its recent innovative momentum in the sciences, public service, diversity, internationalism, and the arts. Oct. 14 will be the launch of the official 375th anniversary.

  • Arts & Culture

    The digital pioneers

    A Harvard center helps to write the script as the arts and humanities confront an emerging age of digital scholarship.

  • Science & Tech

    Digital drive

    Across the University, digitization is rapidly changing the nature of scholarship, opening doors to information and collaboration, and redefining research and education.

  • Health

    Obesity rate will reach at least 42%

    Researchers at Harvard University say America’s obesity epidemic won’t plateau until at least 42 percent of adults are obese, an estimate derived by applying mathematical modeling to 40 years of Framingham Heart Study data.

  • Nation & World

    Bright ideas

    Harvard authorities across many fields offer their ideas on how to get the nation’s lagging economy back on track.

  • Campus & Community

    HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain appointed to SEAS faculty

    Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 has been appointed to the faculty of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as professor of computer science.

  • Science & Tech

    Berkman Center helps launch StopBadware campaign

    The problems caused by badware have very serious implications, both for every day use of computers, and for the long-term viability of the open Internet. On Jan. 25, 2006, the…

  • Science & Tech

    Report documents importance of playlists

    Drawing from an early-adopter survey conducted through Gartner, Harvard College student Derek Slater and Mike McGuire, Gartner research director, found that consumer-to-consumer recommendation tools, like playlists, enable consumers to actively…

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard Law School researchers track China’s Web filtering policies

    “We’re hoping to make clear what’s blocked and what’s not—something only previously understood piecemeal,” said Professor Jonathan Zittrain, faculty co-director of the Berkman Center. “With the right data, we can…