This workshop is free and open to the public. To register, please RSVP to citp@princeton.edu with your full name and affiliation. Attendees registered by Friday, November 19, 2010 will receive lunch and a name tag.

The body of digital information held by various entities is both staggering and constantly expanding. Each day we hear new reports of newly digitized "dark" archives, enhanced digital tracing techniques, data privacy breaches, and aggregated data sets. At the same time, much historically important information goes unrecorded - at least in any usable or enduring digital form. How do we reconcile the many different constituencies, technologies, uses, and norms into sensible policy? This conference will gather leading experts from a variety of domains to discuss the challenges of "big data" and the attendant policy considerations.

Keynote Speaker: David Weinberger, Author of Everything is Miscellaneous and the forthcoming Too Big to Know

Dr. Laura DeNardis is the Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project. She is a scholar of Internet governance and architecture, teaches at Yale Law School, and is the author of Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (The MIT Press 2009), Information Technology in Theory (Thompson 2007 with Pelin Aksoy), and numerous book chapters and articles. Her upcoming edited collection, Opening Standards, the Global Politics of Interoperability, is in press and will be published by The MIT press in 2011. DeNardis received a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech, a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College.

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Barbara van Schewick is an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, an Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Van Schewick's research focuses on the economic, regulatory, and strategic implications of communication networks. In particular, she explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to these changes. This work has made her a leading expert on the issue of network neutrality. Her papers on network neutrality have influenced regulatory debates in the United States, Canada and Europe. In 2007, van Schewick was one of three academics who, together with public interest groups, filed the petition that started the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality inquiry into Comcast's blocking of BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer protocols. She has testified before the FCC in en banc hearings and official workshops.

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Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru is a security researcher in India who was recently named as a recipient of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 2010 Pioneer Award for his work revealing security flaws in India's paperless electronic voting machines. He has endured jail time, repeated interrogations, and ongoing political harassment to protect an anonymous source that enabled him to conduct the first independent security review of India's electronic voting system. Prasad spent a year trying to convince election officials to complete such a review, but they insisted that the government-made machines were "perfect" and "tamperproof." Instead of blindly accepting the government's claims, Prasad's international team discovered serious flaws that could alter national election results. Months of hot debate have produced a growing consensus that India's electronic voting machines should be scrapped, and Prasad hopes to help his country build a transparent and verifiable voting system.

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Keynote:
Andrew McLaughlin, White House Deputy CTO, Internet Policy
Panelists and Respondents:
Peter Eckersley, Senior Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Adam Langley, Google
Scott Rea, Senior PKI Architect, DigiCert
Ari Schwartz, Senior Internet Policy Advisor, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul Vixie, President, Internet Software Consortium

Hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy and the New America Foundation

This event is free and open to the public.

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• what recent CITP-affiliated undergrads are up to
• how we can help you find internships, jobs, and graduate studies
• research opportunities at the center
• upcoming events
• how to connect with our visiting scholars, who are experts in their fields
• other tech policy connections on campus

  Assuming there is sufficient interest, we may also have a Wii Tennis face-off.
  

Among the treasures discovered by the 1930s excavations at the ancient Roman city Antioch-on-the-Orontes (in modern-day Turkey) and its vicinity were numerous polychrome floor mosaics. One of these mosaics, depicting the drinking contest between Dionysos and Herakles, is one of the masterpieces in the Princeton University Art Museum's collection of ancient art. The mosaic originally decorated the pavement of the dining room in the eponymously named "House of the Drinking Contest," a third-century house in Seleucia Pieria, the port of the Roman city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes. The drinking contest and five other associated pavements were distributed to six museums, all but one in the United States.

The placement of the mosaics in museums has severed them from their original site and from each other. Excavation photographs show the mosaics in situ, but the absence of the original roofs and supporting walls altered the lighting conditions substantially. The ancient occupants would have seen sunlight as it entered the house over walls, through windows, and between columns, and moved across pavements during the course of the day and the arc of the year.

Computer science addresses the problem of the lost architectural and lighting contexts through a three-dimensional model that recreates the house and inserts the mosaics into the spaces that originally contained them. This computer model thus presents a graphic rendering of the hypotheses underpinning the architectural reconstruction. A programming script, which calibrates the sunlight to the latitude and longitude of Seleucia Pieria in the year 230 A.D., enables an accurate lighting simulation for the house and its mosaics. This simulation presents the lighting conditions at the summer and winter solstices of that year, and time-lapse videos allow the viewer to observe and study the movement of light throughout the house. Finally, the model places the viewer within the ancient spaces, thereby reconstructing and recontextualizing views from corridors within the house and from the house to the natural environment

Representatives from the Wikimedia Foundation will discuss the policies and principles that govern the operations of the Wikipedia community, along with new efforts to make Wikipedia more relevant to governance, debate, and teaching in the broader world of public policy. How are wiki disputes handled? What do the wiki guidelines of "be bold" and "so fix it" mean? What opportunities do professors have to incorporate wiki editing in their curricula? What is the Wikimedia Public Policy Initiative doing on Princeton's campus this year? Several Princeton faculty members will offer their reflections on these questions and others.

Wikimedia Foundation Presenters:
         Rod Dunican, Education Program's Manager
         Pete Forsyth, Public Outreach Officer
         Annie Lin, Campus Team Coordinator

Princeton University:
   Moderator:
         Ed Felten, Computer Science and Public Affairs
   Panelists:
         Paul DiMaggio, Sociology and Public Affairs
         Matt Salganik, Sociology
         Paul Starr, Sociology and Public Affairs

Computers are transforming all aspects of our society, from scientific research to the meaning of democracy. The notion of computation is fundamental in the understanding of our own intelligence and the fundamental laws of our universe.

The computer science major (AB or BSE) and the program in applications of computing are extremely flexible and can be stepping stones to grad school and a variety of careers, including high-tech, law, finance, and management consulting.

Come by to discuss the many opportunities.

This workshop explores how security and freedom both compliment each other and compete. A spectrum of security risks at different layers of the network beg for technical and governance solutions. Flash points like the recent Google-in-China developments highlight the nexus of security and speech. A growing discourse about internet freedom calls out for workable theories and models. This event will bring together technologists, policymakers, and academics to discuss the state of play and viable ways forward.

This workshop is free and open to the public. To register, please RSVP to citp@princeton.edu with your full name and affiliation. Registered attendees will receive lunch and a name tag.

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Professor Frischmann is an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago. He teaches in the areas of intellectual property and Internet law. Prior to academia, Professor Frischmann clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC.

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Brad Smith is the General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs for Microsoft.

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Dr. John F. Nash is a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University. Nash received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in equilibrium problems.

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All ACM / IEEE-CS meetings are open to the public. Students and their parents are welcome. There is no admission charge.

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Future Princeton ACM/ IEEE Computer Society Meetings:

Apr. 15 -The Foundations and Future of Information Search, Andrea LaPaugh, Princeton University.

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