Information Technologies, Cooperation and Conflict Across Boundaries
10/07/2001
A discussion with John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation; Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems; and Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Monday, July 16th, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley Campus (south side, east of the Haas Pavilion)
This talk is organized by the Social Science Research Council's program on Information Technology, International Cooperation, and Global Security (ITIC) in conjunction with its Summer Research Collegium being hosted at the University of California, Berkeley.
The ITIC program, a part of the SSRC's new initiative to address information technologies using social science, is directed by the ITIC Committee chaired by Dr. Sassen and consisting of:
- Hayward Alker, School of International Relations, UCLA
- John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation
- Dorothy Denning, Computer Science Department, Georgetown University
- Dieter Ernst, East-West Center
- ane Fountain, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
- Linda Garcia, Communication, Culture, and Technology program, Georgetown University
- Dina Iordanova, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester
- Margaret Keck, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
- Robert Keohane, Political Science, Duke University
- Rohan Samarajiva, Department of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology
- Nigel Thrift, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
- Steven Weber, Political Science, UC Berkeley
- and, Barry Wellman, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto.
The program is staffed by director Robert Latham and program assistant Deborah Matzner.
For further information
Deborah Matzner Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Ave. New York,
NY 10019 USA
tel: 212-377-2700 ext. 440
fax: 212-377-2727
