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Dan Ariely
Author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics, Duke University
Visiting Professor, MIT Media Lab
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University and visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab. A behavioral economist, Ariely’s research has shown that we all succumb to irrationality in situations where rational thought is expected. He is an expert on how people actually act—and why they act—in all kinds of business and economic environments, and what this means for business innovation, strategy, marketing and pricing.
Ariely is the author of The New York Times best-seller, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins). In this groundbreaking work, Ariely presents often humorous and peculiar research findings that provide new insights into human behavior, which help us make better decisions as individuals, as corporations and as a society.
Ariely received a PhD in marketing from Duke University, a PhD and MA in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BA in psychology from Tel Aviv University.
He publishes widely in the leading scholarly journals in economics, psychology and business. His work has been featured in a variety of media including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Business 2.0, Scientific American, Science, CNN, NPR and he was interviewed for ABC’s 20/20.
As a speaker, Ariely has a natural and unique talent for turning his research into vignettes that are fun, relevant and engaging, and for delivering the results in a genuinely charming, original and often comical way.
Scott Charney
Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing
Microsoft Corporation
Scott Charney serves as Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, Engineering Excellence, and Environmental Sustainability. Trustworthy Computing is Microsoft's effort to help ensure secure, private and reliable computing experiences for everyone. As part of this effort, the Trustworthy Computing team works with business groups throughout the company to ensure their products and services adhere to Microsoft's security and privacy policies. It also engages with governments, industry partners and computer users on important security and privacy issues such as critical infrastructure protection, software assurance and identity management. Engineering Excellence is responsible for supporting Microsoft’s engineering community by providing Microsoft engineers with learning and development opportunities, as well as by discovering and propagating engineering best practices across the company and into the IT ecosystem. Finally, Environmental Sustainability focuses on using the power of software to help reduce mankind's impact on the environment, as well as managing Microsoft’s own environmental footprint.
Before joining Microsoft in 2002, Charney was a principal for the professional services organization PricewaterhouseCoopers. At PricewaterhouseCoopers he led the firm’s Cybercrime Prevention and Response Practice, providing computer security services to Fortune 500 companies and smaller enterprises. Before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, he served as Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. As the leading federal prosecutor for computer crimes from 1991 to 1999, he helped prosecute major hacker cases and co-authored numerous documents, including the Federal Guidelines for Searching and Seizing Computers, the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996, the federal computer crime sentencing guidelines, and the Criminal Division’s policy on appropriate computer use and workplace monitoring. He also chaired the Group of Eight nations Subgroup on High-Tech Crime, served as Vice Chair and Head of the U.S. delegation to the Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Global Cryptography Policy for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), was a member of the U.S. delegation to the OECD’s Group of Experts on Security, Privacy and Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Information Infrastructure, and was a member of the Clinton Administration’s Information Infrastructure Task Force, serving on the Privacy Working Group that published principles for handling personally identifiable information.
Charney started his professional career as an Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County, New York, ultimately serving as Deputy Chief of the Investigations Bureau. In addition to supervising 23 prosecutors, he developed a computer-tracking system that was later used throughout the city for tracking criminal cases.
Charney has received numerous professional awards, including the John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement in 1995 and the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in 1998. He was elected to the Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame in 1999. Among his other affiliations, he served on the American Bar Association Task Force on Electronic Surveillance, the Software Engineering Institute Advisory Board at Carnegie-Mellon University, and the Defense Science Board Task Force on Mission Impact of Foreign Influence on DoD Software. He currently co-chairs the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security.
Charney holds a law degree with honors from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, and bachelor degrees in History and English from the State University of New York in Binghamton.
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Associate Professor and Director of the Information and Innovation Policy Research Centre
LKY School of Public Policy/National University of Singapore Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Information and Innovation Policy Research Centre at the LKY School of Public Policy/National University of Singapore. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.
He has published seven books, most recently “Governance and Information Technology” with MIT Press, and is the author of more than one hundred articles and book chapters (most recently “Demystifying Lessig” in the Wisconsin Law Review) on the governance of information.
After successes in the International Physics Olympics and the Austrian Young Programmers Contest, Dr. Mayer-Schönberger studied law in Salzburg (Mag.iur, '88, Dr.iur '91), Cambridge (UK) and Harvard (LL.M. '89). In 1992 he received a M.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics, and in 2001 the venia docendi on (among others) information law. In 1986 he founded Ikarus Software, a company focusing on data security, and developed the Virus Utilities, which became the best-selling Austrian software product. The recipient of numerous awards for innovation and entrepreneurship, he was voted Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and Person of the Year for the State of Salzburg in 2000.
Dr. Mayer-Schönberger has chaired the Rueschlikon Conference on Information Policy in the New Economy, bringing together leading strategists and decision-makers of the new economy. He is the cofounder of the SubTech conference. and from 2003-2006 served on the ABA/AALS National Conference of Lawyers and, Scientists.
He is a frequent public speaker, and sought expert for print and broadcast media worldwide. He is also on the boards of numerous foundations, think tanks and organizations focused on studying the foundations of the new economy, and advises governments, businesses and NGOs on new economy and information society issues
REVIEW OF DELETE
Professor Mayer-Schönberger's new book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The digital realm remembers what is sometimes better forgotten, and this has profound implications for us all.
In Delete, Professor Mayer-Schönberger traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances. The written word made it possible for humans to remember across generations and time, yet now digital technology and global networks are overriding our natural ability to forget—the past is ever present, ready to be called up at the click of a mouse. Mayer-Schönberger examines the technology that's facilitating the end of forgetting—digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software—and describes the dangers of everlasting digital memory, whether it's outdated information taken out of context or compromising photos the Web won't let us forget. He explains why information privacy rights and other fixes can't help us, and proposes an ingeniously simple solution—expiration dates on information—that may.
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