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...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...
...freedoms as users of information have their complications; and we need to deploy better tools—starting with a strong dose of common sense—to make the best use of it all.Dan Gillmor is director of the Center for Citizen Media, which is affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and the University of California, Berkeley. He will be giving a talk, “Engaging with the News, Part I: The Daily Me and We,” tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Pound Hall 102 at Harvard Law School...
...Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School is teaming up with major players in the software industry to give greater control of personal information to individuals. The project, nicknamed “Higgins,” would issue identity cards to individuals that would contain information that they would then be able to share with others. John H. Clippinger, a senior fellow at the Berkman Center, said that the key to the Higgins system is that private information is located in “cells,” so an individual can choose what information...
...University Hall to review the recommendations of the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee (EPC).“We will...be resuming our discussion of the EPC’s proposals to change the date of concentration choice and to establish optional secondary fields,” Berkman Professor of Psychology and Council member Elizabeth S. Spelke wrote in an e-mail.Ulrich said the review is progressing at a “grassroots level now” and that individual professors need to develop a stake in the review before legislation reaches the full Faculty.“Nothing...
...frustrated students everywhere waiting for that all-important Facebook message to load, the University is offering a helping hand. Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has joined with a group at Oxford University to launch StopBadware.org, a site that aims to eliminate spyware and other performance-inhibiting programs. “Badware,” according to the website, is a broad category that encompasses adware, spyware, and other malicious programs. The site will collect individuals’ stories of their battles with the electronic nemesis. “We hope this will...