Lunchtime Discussions

Everyone is invited, regardless of background or status. The discussions do not assume any specialized knowledge of technology, public policy, or any other field. The goal is to learn from each other.

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Lunches are Noon-1:30 in room 302 of the Computer Science Building, unless otherwise noted.

Food at noon. Discussion begins at 12:25 pm. Everyone invited.

Spring 2008
May 01 Marc E. Fiuczynski, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University, R&D Staff member, PlanetLab Consortium - Information Technology in Africa: A Journey from Grassroots Research to Policy Reform
April 24 Harriet Pearson, Chief Privacy Officer, IBM - How to Think about Privacy in a Web 2.0 (and Beyond) World
April 17 Future Directions of Policy Lunch
April 10 Case Study: “Phorm” — Online Marketing Through Network Hacks
April 4 Voluntary Collective Licensing for Music Downloads
Mar. 27 NJ Voting Machine Discrepancies
Mar. 13 JuicyCampus.com Debate
Mar. 6 Privacy Breaches, Technology and the Law
Feb. 28 Wiki-government
Feb. 21 The Surveillance Debate
Feb. 14 Crowdsourcing Wireless Coverage
Feb. 7 Enhancing Social Cyberspaces
Fall 2007
Dec. 13 Annual predictions
Dec. 13 Candidates’ Ignorance of Technology
Dec. 6 Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market
Nov. 29 Whose Space?
Nov. 8 Improving the Patent System
Oct. 25 Patent Tutorial
Oct. 4 Unlocking and Relocking the iPhone
Sep. 27 “State of the Art”? Staying up to date in the digital environment
Sep. 20 Computing in the Cloud
Spring 2007
May 3 The Future
Apr. 26 Healthcare and Privacy
Apr. 19 Blogger’s Code of Conduct
Apr. 12 The Myth of the Superuser
Apr. 5 EMI introduces DRM-free Music
Mar. 29 COPA, and protecting kids from bad content
Mar. 15 Software as a Service
Mar. 8 Wireless Network Neutrality
Feb. 15 Botnets and Public Policy
Feb. 8 Hannah Ross on e-Discovery
Fall 2006
Dec. 14 2006 in Review, 2007 Predictions
Dec. 7 Gadget Mania
Nov. 30 Second Life Copybot
Nov. 16 Open Source Economics
Nov. 9 YouTube
Oct. 12 Regulating Online Gambling
Oct. 5 HP Spying Scandal
Sep. 21 Diebold Electronic Voting Security
Spring 2006
May 4 Eszter Hargittai: The Role of Skill in Internet Use
Apr. 27 Cameron Wilson, ACM Policy Director
Apr. 20 Cory Ondrejka, Linden Labs
Apr. 13 Shirley Gaw
Apr. 6 Network Neutrality
Mar. 30 Wikipedia
Mar. 9 Online Reptutation Systems
Mar. 2 FaceBook, MySpace, and the risk of revealing too much
Feb. 23 Computing in the developing world
Feb. 16 US tech companies in China
Feb. 9 NSA eavesdropping program
Fall 2005
Dec. 15 The Sony CD DRM episode