On behalf of WISC (the Women in the School of Computing), we would like to invite you to participate in an informal round table discussion with Dr. Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science and Director of the Information Law Institute at New York University and Dr. Carol Miernicki Steeg, Vice President, Intellectual Property at PARTEQ Innovations, the technology transfer office of Queen’s University. Topics for discussion include (but are not limited to): privacy and social media, entrepreneurship, patents and intellectual property. More information can be found on the WISC event page.
The event will be held in Beamish Munro Hall (the ILC) Room 313. You will have a chance to sit with both Dr. Nissenbaum and Dr. Miernicki Steeg (30 minutes with each). The round table discussion will run from 10:30 – 11:30 followed by a (complementary) hot lunch served in Goodwin 524. There will be a chance for further discussion over lunch.
Everyone welcome — grads & undergrads!!! Free food — hot catered lunch!!!!
Please RSVP by mailing Wendy Powley — an RSVP is necessary to attend as we need to let the caterers know how many people will attend.
Dr. Nissenbaum will be also be giving the Brockington Lecture at Queen’s on March 18th at 5PM in the Agnes Etherington Art Center Atrium — “What Privacy Protects Online: The Trouble with MOOCs”. All are welcome at this event as well.
If you have any questions, please direct them to Wendy Powley.