Chancellor-Elect Holden Thorp speaks at a celebration reception for the campus community in Gerrard Hall after the UNC Board of Governors' election on May 8, 2008.
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An introductory review of the research relevant to the question- Can the high-level semantic descriptions of motion pictures found in existing systems serve the exploratory needs of the film discourse community?
DJ Spooky (Paul Miller) talks about the history of media and thoughts about media in culture. He discusses and demonstrates the unexpected side effects of free speech, law, and copyright while showing the power of remixed art. The future and meaning of remix culture is discussed.
Bob Sutor discusses the effect of open source and open standards on innovation and markets. Specific topics include the effects of open source alternatives on software markets, open standards and interoperability, the new social aspect of software and the open source community.
danah boyd gives an impromptu talk on the development and applications of social networking on the WWW with particular emphasis on young adults and implications for personal relationships. Includes Q and A session.
Gary Marchionini lectures in the Human-Information Interaction course on the four kinds of information (thing, thought, action, proflection), and on distinctions among information, communication, and interaction.
Chancellor Holden Thorp shares his vision for the University in his installation address. Dr. Thorp was installed as the 10th chancellor of the University on University Day, October 12th, the birthday of the nation's oldest state university.
![UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor-Elect Holden Thorp\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/cGLEy3UlF3s/2.jpg "UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor-Elect Holden Thorp\")
![Chancellor Thorp\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/rmduXUrIchs/2.jpg "Chancellor Thorp\")
