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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.htmlProfessor 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.eduFor further information, please contact:
MCN
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