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Catherine Ahearn

Head of Content
Member of the Knowledge Futures Group | Alumna of the Boston University Editorial Institute and Middlebury College
Cambridge, MAhttps://kfg.mit.edu/0000-0003-3101-6382publicreations
All Pubs (90)Attributed Pubs (42)
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Frequently Asked Questions

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 29, 2018
in Community Journal of Design and Science

How To Become A Centaur

by Nicky Case
Published: Jan 08, 2018
Essay Competition Winner | The old story of AI is about human brains working against silicon brains. The new story of IA will be about human brains working with silicon brains. As it turns out most of the world is the opposite of a chess game: Non-zero-sum—both players can win.
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Example: Pub Formatting

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Dec 02, 2017
in Community MIT Press Open

Glossary

by John Palfrey
Published: Dec 05, 2017
in Community MIT Press Open

Case Studies

by John Palfrey
Published: Dec 05, 2017
in Community MIT Press Open

Recommended Reading

by John Palfrey
Published: Dec 05, 2017
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Systems Lessons of the Global Problematique: Valuing Connection

by Anjali Sastry
Published: Jan 22, 2018
Today, greenhouse gas emissions are rising again while questions about how to spur economic growth continue. I wonder, are we missing the connection? Might a move away from reduction help us to understand our shared options?
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Inviting Feedback

by Pip Mothersill
Published: Feb 04, 2018
We are designing increasingly complex ecologies, involving unpredictable human interactions, emotional experiences and intangible services, as well as the physical objects that we pick off the shelf.  We don’t just design forms, we now design platforms.
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Essay Competition Guidelines and FAQ

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 10, 2018
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Line-Drawing Exercises: Autonomy and Automation

by John Palfrey
Published: Dec 27, 2017
An existential worry lies beneath concerns about the future of AI. We as humans fear that we will lose our autonomy as we pursue automation with such abandon. It feels urgent that we examine what we care most about in humanity as we race to develop the science and technology.
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Resisting Reduction: A Manifesto

by Joichi Ito
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Published: Oct 13, 2017
Designing our Complex Future with Machines.
in Community Joi Ito's PubPub

Joichi Ito's Research Statement

by Joichi Ito
Published: Oct 16, 2017
Research statement submitted to MIT for Joichi Ito's Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences promotion case in March 2016.
in Community Joi Ito's PubPub

From the perspective of the microbes

by Joichi Ito
Published: Oct 13, 2017
in Community Joi Ito's PubPub

反マネーロンダリング法と出来の悪い著作権法との類似点と改正の必要性

by Joichi Ito
Published: Oct 13, 2017
in Community Joi Ito's PubPub

Reinventing Bookkeeping and Accounting (In Search of Certainty)

by Joichi Ito
Published: Oct 13, 2017
in Community Joi Ito's PubPub

簿記と会計の再発明 (確実性を求めて)

by Joichi Ito
Published: Oct 13, 2017
in Community Innovations

Warsaw: A City of Innovation and Change

by Michał Olszewski
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Published: Nov 14, 2017
Innovations Case Narrative: Warsaw, Poland
in Community Innovations

The Beta City: The City as a Business Matchmaker and Testing Ground

by Evert Bulcke and Bart de Wever
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Published: Nov 14, 2017
Innovations Case Narrative: Antwerp, Belgium
in Community Innovations

The Beta City: The City as a Business Matchmaker and Testing Ground

by Bart De Wever and Evert Bulcke
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Published: Nov 14, 2017
Innovations Case Narrative: Antwerp, Belgium
in Community Innovations

Winds of Change over Buenos Aires Nurturing Entrepreneurship in a Developing Megacity

by Mariano Mayer and Francisco Cabrera
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Published: Nov 14, 2017
Buenos Aires has made a particular effort to promote collaborative value creation.
in Community Innovations

Science and Practice for Thriving Cities

by Javier Gonzales and Luís M. A. Bettencourt
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Published: Nov 14, 2017
What is emboldening local governments to take on more than their immediate work? What is making it possible for cities and local governments to tackle perennial problems of equity and sustainable development?
in Community Innovations

Schlafly Beer and the Renaissance in St. Louis

by Tom Schlafly
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Published: Nov 16, 2017
Innovations Case Narrative: Schlafly Beer
in Community Innovations

Fostering ScaleUp Ecosystems for Regional Economic Growth

by Vincent Onyemah and Daniel Isenberg
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Published: Nov 16, 2017
Innovations Case Narrative: Manizales-Mas and Scale Up Milwaukee
in Community Innovations

Boosting Tech Innovation

by Hallie Applebaum , Michael Minges, and Victor Mulas
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Published: Nov 16, 2017
Ecosystems in Cities: A Framework for Growth and Sustainability of Urban Tech Innovation Ecosystems
in Community Innovations

Is Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Scaling?

by Keith Harrington
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Published: Nov 17, 2017
An Approach to Inventorying and Measuring a Region’s Innovation Momentum
in Community Innovations

Making Beautiful Places: Fostering Inclusive Innovation through Place-Based Ecosystem Development

by Lyndon Rego and Christopher Gergen
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Published: Nov 17, 2017
Innovations Case Narrative: Bull City Forward, Forward Cities, and Forward Impact
in Community MIT Press Open

Prefatory Material

by John Palfrey
Published: Dec 05, 2017
in Community MIT Press Open

BookBook Development Notes

by PubPub Team
Published: Dec 15, 2017
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

by Stewart Brand
Published: Jan 18, 2018
Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Death Star Thinking and Government Reform

by Jennifer Pahlka
Published: Dec 20, 2017
What’s the lesson too many people take from that first and most influential episode in Star Wars back in 1977? One incredibly well-placed shot into the thermal exhaust port and the entire apparatus of our oppression explodes spectacularly.
in Community MIT Press Open

Video Interviews

by John Palfrey
Published: Jan 18, 2018
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Big Idea Famine

by Nicholas Negroponte
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Published: Feb 02, 2018
Parse the title either way—I believe that 30 years from now people will look back at the beginning of our century and wonder what we were doing and thinking about big, hard, long-term problems, particularly those of basic research.
PubPub Help

General Information

by PubPub Team
Published: Mar 19, 2018
What is PubPub? Why does it exist? | What are some characteristics that make PubPub unique? | Who is PubPub for? | How do I start a community? | Dictionary of terms
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Versions (1): 
Dawit Tegbaru & 1 other
PubPub Help

Getting Started

by PubPub Team
Published: Mar 19, 2018
How do I: create my own community? | create a PubPub profile? | submit a pub to a community? | create pages? | format pages? | delete a pub? | delete a community?
in Community Peer Review Transparency

Draft, V1: Transparency in Standards and Practices of Peer Review

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Published: Mar 27, 2018
in Community Born Digital

NEH Grant Draft

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Published: May 09, 2018
in Community Peer Review Transparency

Draft, V2: Transparency in Standards and Practices of Peer Review

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Published: May 18, 2018
KFG Notes

The Future of Knowledge

by Danny Hillis, Samuel Klein, and Travis Rich
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Published: Jul 18, 2018
The philosophy of the Underlay.
KFG Notes

Patterns for Crystallizing Knowledge

by Samuel Klein
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Published: Jul 09, 2018
in Community Journal of Design and Science

设计即参与

by Kevin Slavin and ONES Piece
Published: Oct 17, 2018
in Community Journal of Design and Science

设计与科学

by Joichi Ito and ONES Piece
Published: Oct 17, 2018
设计能否推动科学的发展,而科学又能否促进设计的提升?
in Community Journal of Design and Science

启蒙时代已逝,「纠缠时代」万岁

by Danny Hillis and ONES Piece
Published: Oct 17, 2018
in Community Journal of Design and Science

纠缠时代

by Neri Oxman and ONES Piece
Published: Nov 04, 2018
in Community Journal of Design and Science

Between Living and Nonliving

by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Natsai Chieza, Ionat Zurr, Maholo Uchida, Justinas Vilutis, Lorrie LeJeune, and Amy Graves
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Published: Oct 30, 2018
CredCon 2018

Review Maps

by Travis Rich, Catherine Ahearn, and Gabriel Stein
Published: Nov 15, 2018
Moving from brand to process-based indicators of document quality.
KFG Notes

The Future of Knowledge and Publishing: A View from MIT

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Nov 25, 2018
KFG Notes

Improved import and review, PubPub communities in print, and more!

by Catherine Ahearn, Travis Rich, and Gabriel Stein
Published: Nov 27, 2018
KFG Notes

New page layouts for issues and chapters, tables of contents, submissions, and more

by Catherine Ahearn, Travis Rich, and Gabriel Stein
Published: Nov 27, 2018
KFG Notes

Custom homepages and download files

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Mar 04, 2019
Cruiskeen Catalogued

1960s

by Catherine Ahearn
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Published: Mar 11, 2019
Cruiskeen Catalogued

1950s

by Catherine Ahearn
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Published: Mar 11, 2019
Cruiskeen Catalogued

Digital Myles Letter of Support

by Catherine Ahearn, Tobias Harris, Martin Eve, Andy Byers, and Joe Brooker
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Published: Mar 11, 2019
PubPub Help

Example Communities + Capabilities

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 17, 2020
PubPub includes features to support the dynamic, iterative, multimedia, and often cross-disciplinary publication of scholarly work.
KFG Notes

KFG Spring 2020 Editorial Intern

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Dec 06, 2019
in Community Commonplace

AAP + scientific society letters, annotated

Published: Dec 20, 2019
We invite the community to annotate and comment on these letters, by the Association of American Publishers and a coalition of research and publishing organizations to the Trump administration.
in Community AfricArXiv

Proposal: Audio/Visual Preprints

by Obasegun Ayodele, Jo Havemann, Joy Owango, Nabil Ksibi, and Catherine Ahearn
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Published: Apr 17, 2020
in Community Frankenbook

Getting Started

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 28, 2020
in Community Phone & Spear

MAKING THINGS LIVELY

Published: Oct 12, 2020
in Community Commonplace

Commonplace Press Release

by Quincy Childs
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Published: Mar 30, 2020
The Commonplace is a space where people discuss the digital infrastructure and policies needed to distribute, constellate, and amplify knowledge for the public good.
in Community Annotated COVID-19 Papers

Knowledge Hygiene

by Quincy Childs and Catherine Ahearn
Published: Apr 22, 2020
in Community Commonplace

Commonplace Design Brief

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Apr 21, 2020
in Community Commonplace

Commonplace Content Types

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Feb 25, 2020
PubPub Help

Getting Started on PubPub: The First Steps to Creating Your Community

by Heather Staines and Catherine Ahearn
Published: Mar 25, 2020
This article is intended to walk you through the steps of creating a community, as well as the initial steps of establishing your homepage and site-wide settings.
Connections
Versions (1): 
Dawit Tegbaru
Cruiskeen Catalogued

1940s

by Catherine Ahearn
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Published: Mar 11, 2019
in Community Works in Progress

12. Interoperability of Distributed Systems

by Thomas Hardjon, Alexander Lipton, and Alex Pentland
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Published: Apr 30, 2020
in Community Works in Progress

13. Exchange Networks for Virtual Assets

by Thomas Hardjono, Alexander Lipton, and Alex Pentland
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Published: Apr 30, 2020
in Community Commonplace

Rapid sharing of COVID-19 research

by Jessica Polka, Dave O’Connor, Daniela Saderi, Richard Sever, Richard Wilder, and Catherine Ahearn
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Published: May 21, 2020
A conversation about the role of preprints, sharing, and collaboration hosted by ASAPbio and the Knowledge Futures Group, held on 31 March 2020 and transcribed here.
PubPub's Open Publishing Fest Sessions

Audio/Visual Preprints and the Mechanisms for Global Rapid Knowledge Exchange

by Catherine Ahearn
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Published: May 27, 2020
Friday, May 29th at 9am EDT
in Community AfricArXiv

Audio or video embed

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: May 29, 2020
Brief Description
in Community MIT Press Open

Pathways to PubPub

by Catherine Ahearn
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Published: Jun 04, 2020
A guide for MIT Press editors and authors for the effective use of the platform as a resource
KFG Notes

EM Interview Exercise

by Catherine Ahearn
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Published: Aug 04, 2020
in Community Frankenbook

Getting Started

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 28, 2020
in Community Frankenbook

Getting Started

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 28, 2020
in Community Frankenbook

Getting Started

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 28, 2020
in Community Frankenbook

Getting Started

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 28, 2020
in Community Frankenbook

Getting Started

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 28, 2020
in Community Peer Review Transparency

Transparency in Standards and Practices of Peer Review

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Published: May 28, 2018
Report of a Stakeholder’s Workshop & Recommendations for Action
Connections
Supplements (3): 
Appendix 1: A Taxonomy of Types of Peer Review and Objects Reviewed
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Appendix 3: Participants in the Workshop on Transparency in Standards and Practices of Peer Review
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Appendix 2: A Proposed Form of Signaling
in Community Commonplace

5 Things to Remember

by Sarah Gulliford (Kearns) and Catherine Ahearn
Published: Dec 20, 2021
An end-of-year roundup of all our favorite Things
KFG Notes

PubPub in Humanities Classrooms

by Catherine Ahearn
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Published: Nov 06, 2020
MIT SHASS | Thursday, November 5, 2020 @ 4:30pm EST
in Community Frankenbook

Getting Started

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 28, 2020
in Community Frankenbook

Getting Started

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 28, 2020
in Community Frankenbook

Getting Started

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: Jan 28, 2020
in Community 10 Year Reunion

Pontoon Boat Head Count

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: May 06, 2021
Can be changed!
in Community 10 Year Reunion

Scavenger Hunt Head Count

by Catherine Ahearn
Published: May 06, 2021
Can be changed!
in Community Commonplace

Clarivate, ProQuest, and our Resistance to Commercializing Knowledge

by Gabriel Stein, Travis Rich, Zach Verdin, and Catherine Ahearn
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Published: May 19, 2021
The dominant commercial models in scholarly publishing aren’t serving the academy or humanity well — extracting enormous profits from a mostly publicly-funded endeavor. But we have a window to stand up and support an alternative.
Connections
Commentaries (1): 
Sarah Gulliford (Kearns) & 1 other
in Community Commonplace

The Business of Knowing: Bringing about [infra]structural change to knowledge communication

by Catherine Ahearn and Sarah Gulliford (Kearns)
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Published: Jun 04, 2021
A call for contributions. Submissions close on Wednesday, June 23, 2020.
in Community Commonplace

It's all of our business

by Sarah Gulliford (Kearns) and Catherine Ahearn
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Published: Aug 19, 2021
A letter from the editors
PubPub Help

PubPub Community Services

by Sarah Gulliford (Kearns), Dawit Tegbaru, and Catherine Ahearn
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Published: Aug 04, 2021
in Community Commonplace

The Global Transition to Open: Structuring Library Sustainability Toward a More Equitable Knowledge Ecosystem

by Sharla Lair and Curtis Brundy
Published: Aug 17, 2021
A call for contributions. Submissions close on Monday, September 13, 2021.
Connections
Commentaries (1): 
Sharla Lair & 1 other
in Community Access 2 Perspectives

Open Infrastructure and Open Knowledge Cultures

by Catherine Ahearn and Jo Havemann
Published: Feb 18, 2023
A conversation with Catherine Ahearn about the hand-in-hand development of open infrastructure and a culture around open knowledge
Connections
Replies (1): 
Catherine Ahearn & 2 others
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