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.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) 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.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: [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).