[vox] Fwd: Potentially interesting talk this afternoon: Distinguished Lecture - James Boyle - Thursday 3:10pm - 1002 Giedt

[Brian Lavender]

Thanks for the heads up. That was a great talk!

brian

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:17:26AM -0800, Jason Moore wrote:
>    Cool talk happening this afternoon!
> 
>    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>    From: Carl Boettiger <[1]cboettig at gmail.com>
>    Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:11 AM
>    Subject: Potentially interesting talk this afternoon: Distinguished
>    Lecture - James Boyle - Thursday 3:10pm - 1002 Giedt
>    To: openscience <[2]openscience at ucdavis.edu>
>    -------- Original Message --------
>    Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:56:38 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
>    From: Phillip Rogaway <[3]rogaway at cs.ucdavis.edu>
>    To: Computer Science Seminars <[4]cssem at cs.ucdavis.edu>
>    Dear colleagues,
>    Just a reminder that we have a special treat tomorrow:
>    Prof. James Boyle will be coming to give a talk.  The event
>    is co-sponsored by the CS Department, the School of Law, and
>    the Center for Science & Innovation Studies.
>    Prof. Boyle is the Williams Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke.
>    He is also a board member of Creative Commons and a columnist
>    for the "Financial Times".  His essay "The Second Enclosure
>    Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain" is a
>    classic, and his latest book, "The Public Domain: Enclosing
>    the Commons of the Mind" (2008) is a wonderful (and scary) read.
>    I suspect Prof. Boyle will give an interesting and engaging talk.
>    Note the atypical location (1002 Giedt, the building
>    immediately north of Kemper) (we feared we wouldn't all fit
>    in Kemper this tims).  Hope to see you all there!
>    -phil
>    ------------------------------------------------------------------
>     UC Davis Dept. of Computer Science - Distinguished Lecture Series
>          INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
>                    Learning from the Software Wars
>                            James Boyle
>                          Duke Law School
>                 Thursday - Feb 10, 2011 - 3:10 pm
>                          1002 Giedt Hall
>                 Reception and refreshments to follow
>               afterwards in the Kemper Hall main lobby
>    ------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Over the last 40 years, software was forced -- reluctantly and with
>    some
>    conceptual violence -- into the conceptual boxes provided by
>    intellectual
>    property law.  What can we learn from the experience?  In this lecture,
>    James Boyle will argue that the "software wars" actually present some
>    deep lessons for the future of technology and the ways that law should,
>    and should not, regulate that future.
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture