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Charles Nesson to Address the Museum Computer Network Conference
Posted by Raul Ruiz on Tuesday, February 04 @ 08:45:44 EST
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Anonymous writes "Cyberspace Visionary Charles Nesson to Address the Museum Computer Network Conference

The Museum Computer Network is pleased to announce that Charles Nesson will be the keynote speaker at its 31st annual conference, to be held in Las Vegas, November 5 - 8, 2003. A leading expert in cyberlaw and the impact of the Internet on Society, Prof. Nesson is a probing thinker and brilliant speaker. He will address the museum community for the first time and set the tone for this conference, Balancing Museum Technology and Transformation. Conference participants will deal directly with the impact of technology on how museums both present and participate in cultural heritage. Nesson’s keynote will undoubtedly challenge existing notions, stimulate new thinking, and provoke transformation in the way museum professionals approach technological opportunities in the future.

Charles R. Nesson is William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Co-Director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu, a research program which he founded to explore the implications of cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. It is Harvard University's first academic think tank devoted exclusively to the Net. www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,12376,00.html


Professor Nesson has participated in cases of national interest throughout his career. He was an organizer of the Lawyer's Military Defense Committee, which provided counsel to servicemen during the Vietnam War, and was counsel in prominent cases related to the war, including United States v. Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers case). Professor Nesson pioneered the use of technology in teaching at Harvard Law School, and has appeared in many of PBS', CBS' and Granada (U.K) Television's most acclaimed non-fiction series. In his book about the landmark W.R. Grace pollution litigation, A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr introduced Nesson and the crucial role he played in this historic legal drama in a chapter entitled “Billion Dollar Charlie.” Most recently, Prof. Nesson played an important role in Eldred v. Ashcroft, the Supreme Court challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

Prof. Nesson is co-editor of Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure (MIT Press, 1997), which investigates issues arising from national differences in law, public policy, and social and cultural values, in light of the emerging global information infrastructure, and includes detailed analyses of some of the most visible issues: intellectual property, security, privacy, and censorship.
Prof. Nesson was Chairman of Harvard's Internet & Society Conference this past November. (More information at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/i&s2002/index_flash.html)

Interview with Prof. Nesson, "The Debate Over Internet Governance," available at:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is99/governance/nesson.html#background


The Call for Proposals for MCN 2003 is available at:
http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/index.html

The Museum Computer Network is a nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies. Founded in 1967, MCN has not just been part of the vanguard implementing museum technology over the last decades, we are the vanguard. www.mcn.edu

For further information, please contact:

MCN Headquarters
232-329 March Road
Box 11
Ottawa ON K2K 2E1
CANADA
Tel: 613-254-9772
Toll free 888-211-1477
Fax: 613-599-7027
E-mail: info@mcn.edu "
 
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