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John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society
2006 JSB Symposium: Gaming and Learning
- Featured Speaker: Steven Johnson
(author most recently of Everything Bad Is Good For You and The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World)
- Time: 2 p.m. Friday, October 13
- Place: Biomedical Science Research Building Auditorium
(at Huron and Glen on U-M's Central Campus)
The John Seely Brown Symposium is sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information. The centerpiece of the symposium is the John Seely Brown Lecture, which is supported by a five-year
gift from John Seely Brown → (a.k.a. "JSB"). Brown is an alumnus of U-M, having earned an MS in mathematics in 1964 and a Ph.D. in computer and communication sciences in 1972 from the University. He has been a strong supporter of SI for a number of years now.
Following the talk there will be a panel discussion with John Seely Brown; John Laird →, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the U-M; Douglas Thomas →, associate professor at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California; and Marianne Ryan, a doctoral student at the U-M School of Information. John L. King, vice provost for academic affairs at the U-M, will moderate.
The
first John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology
and Society was held at the University of Michigan on September
8 & 9, 2000.
The inaugural symposium featured a lecture by Stanford Professor
of Law Lawrence Lessig, titled "Architecting Innovation,"
and a panel discussion, "The Implications of Open Source
Software," featuring Brown, Lessig, and the William D. Hamilton Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems at SI, Michael D. Cohen.
The 2002 symposium
featured the second of at least five lectures by internationally
known scholars on the implications of technological advancement
for societies. Elizabeth M. Daley, Dean, University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television and Executive Director, Annenberg Center for Communication, USC, gave the JSB Lecture at that event. Her talk, on what is often termed "multimedia literacy," was titled "Screen as Vernacular: An Expanding Concept of Literacy."
If you would
like be kept abreast of new information on the John Seely Brown Symposium,
please e-mail jsbsymposium@umich.edu
and we will send you details as they become available.
Last updated: Oct 11, 2006
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Steven Johnson, author most recently of Everything Bad Is Good For You and The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, is featured speaker at the 2006 John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society.
The theme of the 2006 Symposium is "Gaming and Learning."
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