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2000 John Seely Brown Symposium
John Seely Brown, former
vice president and chief scientist of Xerox and former
director of the Xerox Palo Atlo Research Center (PARC)
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The first John Seely Brown Symposium
on Technology and Society was held at the University of Michigan
on September 8 & 9, 2000, sponsored by the School of Information
and the U-M President's Information Revolution Commission.
Public Events
The inaugural symposium featured two
free public events:
- John Seely Brown Lecture
Introduction: Lee C. Bollinger, president of
the University of Michigan
Speaker: Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at
Stanford and special master to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson
in the U.S. v. Microsoft trial
Title: "Architecting Innovation"
- Panel discussion: "The
Implications of Open Source Software"
Speakers: John Seely Brown, Lawrence Lessig,
and U-M Professor of Information Michael D. Cohen
Speakers
John Seely Brown
A U-M alumnus for whom the Symposium is named, John Seely
Brown was until recently vice president and chief scientist of
Xerox and director of the Xerox Palo Atlo Research Center (PARC).
At Xerox, he was deeply involved in research on organizational
learning, ethnographies of the workplace, complex adaptive systems,
and techniques for unfreezing the corporate mind.
His entrepreneurial spirit has inspired
many and caught the attention of those who wish to aggressively
pursue meaningful change withi a stimulating environment. His
vision is noted inthe August 2000 issue of Wired magazine,
in which he is lauded as the "big brain" of Xerox.
In 1997, Bown authored Seeing Differently:
Insights on Innovation and his latest book, The Social
Life of Information, written with Paul Duguid, is now available.
In multimedia, he was an executive producer of the award-winning
film Art: Lunch: Internet: Dinner, which won a bronze
prize at Worldfest '94, the Charleston International Film Festival.
Michael D. Cohen
Michael
D. Cohen is professor of information at the University of
Michigan.
His research centers on processes of
learning and adaptation that go on within organizations as they
respond to their changing environments. His latest book, Harnessing
Complexity, was written with Robert Axelrod and published
by the Free Press in spring of 2000.
He is a member of the faculty group
that merged with U-M's former School of Information and Library
Studies to create the School of Information. He is also a founding
associate director of the Collaboratory
for Research on Electronic Work at U-M and served as an external
faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.
Lawrence Lessig, professor
of law at Stanford, delivered the inaugural John Seely Brown
Lecture on September 8, 2000. |
Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig is now professor of law at Stanford University.
Previously, he was Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for
Entrepreneurial Studies at Harvard Law School. He is one of the
nation's leading scholars of cyberspace and law, and is widely
known for his service as special master to Judge Thomas Penfield
Jackson in the U.S. v. Microsoft trial. His most recent
book is Code and Other Laws
of Cyberspace.
The centerpiece of the inaugural John
Seely Brown Symposium at SI was Lessig's talk "Architecting
Innovation." He writes of it, "We have experienced the
most extraordinary flourishing of innovation and creativity that
we have known. In this lecture, [I will link] that innovation
and creativity to aspects of the architecture of the Internet.
These architectural features should teach us something about how
innovation is made possible. And they should make us cautious
about the changes to this architecture that we are now observing."
Background
The John Seely Brown Symposium is sponsored
by the University of Michigan School of Information. The centerpiece
of the two days of events is the John Seely Brown Lecture, which
is supported by a five-year gift from John Seely Brown. Brown
is an alumnus of U-M, having earned an MS in Mathematics
in 1964 and a PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences in 1972
from the University. He has been a strong supporter of SI for
a number of years now, serving as a member of the School of Information
Advisory Board since 1996.
The 2000 symposium features the first
of at least five annual lectures by internationally known scholars
on the implications of technological advancement for societies.
Sponsors
The events of the John Seely Brown
Symposium, some public and some by invitation only, are sponsored
by the School of Information with the generous support of John
Seely Brown and the following organizations:
- Alliance for Community Technology (ACT)
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Lucent Technologies
- University of Michigan President's Information Revolution
Commission
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