A new group of (utterly wonderful) interns has arrived at the Berkman Center, asking lots of questions about what the place is about. I met with a big group of them, working on a few projects I’m involved with, this afternoon. There’s also a reporter who has been working on a story about the Center, … Read more
There’s enormous promise in the Open Library project, which we’re hearing about today at Berkman’s lunch event from Aaron Swartz. The idea is wonderfully simple: to create a single web page per book. That web page can aggregate lots of data and metadata about each book. In turn, the database can be structured to indicate … Read more
For those who missed it, David Berlind submitted to an interview — how’s that for being a good sport when the tables are turned! — for the Berkman homepage blog. Here’s a [snip]: Question: You mentioned in today’s luncheon series that you had an idea for a transparent workflow for journalists, but that the software … Read more
Prof. Jerry Kang, on the faculty of law at UCLA full-time and a Visiting Professor this year at HLS (check out his CivPro class), is focused on the problems raised by pervasive computing, which he thinks of as convergence of ubiqutous, embedded and animated. Prof. Kang calls it “PerC.” He’s brought his research to the Berkman … Read more