A Decade in Internet Time: OII-iCS Open Plenary Session
in celebration of the Oxford Internet Institute’s tenth anniversary
Thursday 22 September 2011 16:30 – 18:30
Location: Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, Said Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP.
This public plenary panel is the centrepiece of the iCS-OII Symposium on A Decade in Internet Time, and the 10th Anniversary celebration of the OII. A distinguished panel has been asked to reflect on the defining developments of the past ten years and the key challenges and opportunities that the next decade may bring. We hope this special session will stimulate and inform debate over the future of the Internet and our field.
Chair: Bill Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies, Oxford Internet Institute
Speakers:
Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication, Technology and Society, University of Southern California, ‘Internet and the Network Society’
Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, ‘ Everything is Connected to Everything’
Andrew Graham, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, ‘The Internet: Looking Back and Looking Forward’
Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK, and Dean of the Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences, ‘A Web Wise World’
Professor Eli Noam, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University, ‘Next-Generation Policy Research for Next-Generation Internets’
Dame Stephanie Shirley BSc, CEng, FREng, The Shirley Foundation
18:30 – 19:30 Wine reception (Lobby, Said Business School)