October 22, 2008: Brewster Kahle in Ann Arbor, MI at the John Seely Brown Symposium

Brewster's coming to town to talk at the U.

Official announcement from the school of information

Brewster gave me a mug from Thinking Machines back in the WAIS days, I'm looking forward to the visit.

More details:

Wed, Oct 22, 3:00 - 5:30

Live Webcast - http://si.umich.edu/jsb
Submit your questions via e-mail.

Or attend in person:
Biomed Science Research Bldg Auditorium
(corner of Huron and Glen in Ann Arbor)

A leading proponent of open access to all knowledge will consider the
consequences of the consolidation of information into the hands of a few
private organizations when he delivers the keynote lecture at the fourth
John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society, sponsored by U-M's
School of Information.

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and director of the Open
Content Alliance (OCA), has been a critic of proprietary services like
the massive Google Books project, which does not make the books it scans
available to other search services.  The project recently scanned its
one-millionth volume from the University of Michigan libraries.

Following Kahle's talk, a panel of experts will comment on Kahle's ideas
and discuss the possibilities of "Library 2.0" -- the next generation of
libraries, which will capitalize on all that the digital age has to
offer to benefit patrons, including social networking, 24-hour services,
and user-created content.

The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a
public reception.

Please visit http://si.umich.edu/jsb to learn more about the event or to
view the Webcast. During Brewster Kahle's keynote talk and the Q&A session
that will follow it, submit your questions online to jsbsymposium@umich.edu.