John Palfrey, May 29, 2026, Cambridge, MA, USA Thank you, Dean Brown-Nagin, and all Radcliffe Institute staff for putting on such a wonderful day for us all. Thank you for the invitation to moderate this panel on leadership. Thank you most of all for the chance to be among the many, many people who have … Read more
We’ve heard from a number of people about an uneasy (and unfounded) sense that something is happening with respect to the RSS 2.0 spec. Just by way of clarification, nothing has changed from the perspective of Harvard, which is the owner and trustee of the RSS 2.0 spec. To review the bidding, a few years … Read more
Next week, on Tuesday, October 21, 2003, the Berkman Center is pleased to host Yossi Vardi, Principal of International Technologies Ventures and one of Israel’s leading venture capitalists, for his speech at Harvard Law School. Mr. Vardi is widely regarded as a leading thinker about the role of technology in society. His lecture will be held … Read more
The Chronicle will host a live session on Wednesday discussing scholars and blogging. An article highlights Harvard student Matthew Yglesias, noting how senior faculty in his field reference his blog without condescension, emphasizing a respectful acknowledgment of his work in academic circles.
The Globe story on the tough job of the college CIOs has some of the key issues outlined: e.g., how do you ensure the free expression of ideas over the university network while complying with the DMCA?