For more than two decades, anthropologists have wrestled with new digital technologies and their impacts on how their data are collected, managed, and ultimately presented. Anthropological Data in the Digital Age compiles a range of academics in anthropology and the information sciences, archivists, and librarians to offer in-depth discussions of the issues raised by digital scholarship.

This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Díaz shows how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and profit from software.

Prof. Merchant and the other Aggie Heroes were recognized at a reception held at the Chancellor's Residence on May 30. Please read about their contributions below at the following links:

Professor Colin Milburn was awarded the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. This is a career award for a whole body of scholarship, and past recipients have included luminaries in the field.

For more information on Prof. Milburn's achievement please see the following:

http://file770.com/?tag=iafa-distinguished-scholarship-award

Universidad Austral has signed the AOC through Rector Victor Cubillos, and Chancellor Katehi is expected to sign it as soon as Dr. Rojas gets back to campus. For more information, click here.

Faculty from the CSIS community have won a three-year Interdisciplinary Frontiers in the Humanities & Arts Award from UC Davis to launch a major research initiative, titled "Innovating Academic Publishing." The project will analyze crucial changes shaping the future of scholarly communication and include several talks and conferences in the upcoming months.

Professor of Philosophy Griesemer's keynote address "What Salamander Biologists Have Taught Us About Evo-Devo" took place in Sydney, Australia in September 2012.

Earlier in 2012, Dr. Griesemer also presented the Alberto Coffa Memorial Lecture at Indiana University: "On the Status of Hybrids: A Relational View of Individuality, Development and Units of Inheritance."

Looking forward, Dr. Griesemer will present the keynote address at the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice Conference in Toronto, Canada (June 26-29, 2013): "Model Taxa in Theory and Practice."

Professor of Management Beth Bechky presented a series of talks about her recent ethnographic work at a crime laboratory. In "Advocates for the evidence: Forensic science as boundary work," Professor Bechky focused on how the boundary work forensic scientists do with the legal system affects laboratory work.

As an invited guest of the Office of the Chief Economist, Professor Peter Lee recently presented a paper entitled "Patents and the University" at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. Professor's Lee's work-in-progress examines the intersection of academic science and the patent system and offers policy prescriptions for improving university patenting. In addition to presenting his work-in-progress, Professor Lee participated in meetings with the Chief Economist as well as other patent officials.

You can watch Professor Sunder’s book talk at the Berkman Center here:

You can also download an mp3 file of the talk directly here.

Professor Sunder also gave a book talk at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CTIP) on October 17.

Prof. Tim Choy recently participated in the "Futures of Nature" workshop in
Johannesburg, February 2-6, 2012, as part of a partneship between the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) and UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).

He also presented at the conference, "What's New about New Materialisms?" at UC Berkeley on May 4-5, 2012. 

Professor Chander delivered a lecture at Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School in Hangzhou, China in March. He spoke on his new paper, "How Law Made Silicon Valley." The paper examines law's role in the success of Silicon Valley.

He also delivered a lecture on his forthcoming book "The Electronic Silk Road" at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in late March. The book analyzes the rise of trade in services via the Internet, from Bangalore to Silicon Valley.

Professor Peter Lee recently presented a work-in-progress entitled "Transcending the Tacit Dimension: Patents, Relationships, and the Industrial Organization of Technology Transfer" at faculty workshops at George Washington Law School and the University of San Francisco School of Law.  The piece explores the roles of inventor-licensee relationships and organizational integration in transferring patented academic technologies to the private sector for commercialization.

Prof. Kenney was a panelist on a panel titled "Fostering Innovation Through Human Capital Policies” at the 2012 Fuqua School of Business Asia Business Conference in Durham, NC  on April 7, 2012.

Professor M. Kenney presented “What Might Emerge Out of the Current ICT Value Chaos.” at the BRIE-ETLA Conference, Espoo, Finland on August 29, 2011.