E-business visionary to give Technology, Society and Public Policy lecture April 12

ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON

Author, scholar and “e-business visionary” Erik Brynjolfsson will discuss the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and employment at the next Technology, Society and Public Policy Lecture at Rice. His talk, “Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Accelerates Innovation, Drives Productivity and Irreversibly Transforms Employment and the Economy,” will be at 4 p.m. April 12 in Duncan Hall’s McMurtry Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Brynjolfsson, director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and professor at the MIT Sloan School, is a world-leading researcher focused on studying the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and employment. Businessweek named him among 25 e-business standouts with vision, tenacity, new ideas and ability to deliver on promises.

He is the author of “Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy” and “Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy.”

Brynjolfsson lectures worldwide on technology and strategy and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT.

The Technology, Society and Public Policy lecture series is jointly sponsored by the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Fondren Library and the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice.