Speaker: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (University of Oxford, U.K.)

Date: November 20, 2014 – Thursday

Time: 19:00

Venue: MBA Seminar Room, Hongkou Campus

Language: English

Speaker Biography: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (born 1966) is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He conducts research into the network economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the co-author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think (HMH, 2013) and author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton, 2009), which won the 2010 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book and the 2010 Don K. Price Award for Best Book in Science and Technology Politics, and has written over a hundred articles and book chapters.

Mayer-Schönberger’s research focuses on the role of information in the networked economy. Among other things, he has been studying data privacy, governance in virtual worlds, law and entrepreneurship, e-government, and (most recently) big data. He has been advocating a right to be forgotten in the form of expiration dates on personal information.