Word: berkman
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...first motion, put forth by Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke, also a Council member, calls for “an optional secondary field allowing students to receive recognition for focused coursework in one area outside of the concentration...
Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society fellow David D. Weinberger questioned the changing nature of authority in the internet age in a discussion entitled “The Authority of Wikipedia” last night. “In order to have authority at Wiki[pedia] you must be willing to negotiate what you consider to be the truth,” said Weinberger, who is also an author and a blogger. Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that is written and edited by the public. The site—www.wikipedia.org—is known...
...Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke ’71, the EPC member who presented the proposal, said that the committee intended for secondary concentrations to serve students who have a desire to study more than one field without having to also complete the integrated thesis required of joint concentrators...
...active readers, ambitious experiments like CampusTap will never compare to the vibrant House life of entry-ways and dining halls.“In blogs, people express slightly different personas than in real space,” says Harvard Law School professor John G. Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.Nevertheless, Palfrey is optimistic about Harvard’s blogging community. “Blogs represent a kind of learning that can be done in public and across communities,” he says. Palfrey believes that sites like CampusTap are using technology to break down...
...initial planning meeting, “we were all very enthusiastic,” he said. Many professors said they expect that the concentration choice delay proposal will be passed in some form this spring, along with an EPC proposal to create secondary fields, which would function like minors. Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke will introduce this proposal to the faculty tomorrow. Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, who is also a member of the General Education Committee, said he thinks most faculty members are ready to vote on the EPC proposals...