[Asis-l] Charles Nesson to Address the Museum Computer Network

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded because of HTML.  Dick ]

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>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>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>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>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 at mcn.edu

Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD  20910
FAX: (301) 495-0810
PHONE: (301) 495-0900

http://www.asis.org