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He is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon
University. He is also a member of the CMU Usable Privacy and Security
Laboratory, a member of CMU Privacy Technology Center, and a member of CMU Cylab.
Prior to joining CMU Faculty, he researched with the Internet Ecologies group at
the Xerox PARC labs in Palo Alto (as intern); with the Human-Centered Computing
group at RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center (as visiting student); and at SIMS, UC
Berkeley, where he received a Master and a Ph.D. in Information Systems in 2001
and 2003. He received a Master in Economics from Trinity College, Dublin, in
1999; and a Master in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London
School of Economics also in 1999.
He received the PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing
Technologies and the IBM Best Academic Privacy Faculty Award.
He is a member of the program committee of several privacy and security
conferences and workshops (the complete list is available in my CV). He has
chaired the DIMACS Workshop on Information Security Economics and the WEIS
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security.
He has co-edited the book: Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices.
His research interests include: economics of privacy and information security,
economics of computers and AI, agents economics, computational economics,
ecommerce, cryptography, anonymity, and electronic voting.
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Michel was one of the internet pioneers in his home country of Belgium, creating two dotcom start-ups related to intranet/extranets and ineractive marketing, and was the eBusiness Strategy Director for Belgacom, the largest telco, until 2002. In 2003, he migrated to Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand, where he created the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives, a global cyber-collective for research into peer to peer dynamics in business and society. He co-edited a belgian scientific bestseller on the Anthropology of Digital Society and co-produced a 3-hour TV documentary: TechnoCalyps, the metaphysics of technology and the end of Man. The main body of P2P research is located at http://p2pfoundation.net.
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Danielle Citron is an Assistant Professor of Law, originally joining the faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2004. She teaches Civil Procedure, Information Privacy Law, LAWR I, and Appellate Advocacy. She was voted the "Best Teacher of the Year" by the University of Maryland law school students in 2005.
Professor Citron's scholarly interests include information technology's transformative effect on law and legal theory. Her article, "Minimum Contacts in a Borderless World: Voice over Internet Protocol and the Coming Implosion of Personal Jurisdiction Theory," appeared in the U.C. Davis Law Review in 2006. Her article, "Reservoirs of Danger: The Evolution of Public and Private Law at the Dawn of the Information Age," was published by the Southern California Law Review in 2007. Her most recent work includes "Technological Due Process," which will appear in the Washington University Law Review, and "Open Code Governance," which will be published by the University of Chicago Legal Forum.
Before teaching, Professor Citron worked as a litigation associate at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher. While at Willkie Farr, she served as a MFY Legal Services Fellow, representing clients in landlord-tenant matters. She served as a law clerk for two years for the Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Citron taught as an adjunct associate professor at Fordham University School of Law from 1997 until the spring of 2006.
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Dr. Urs Gasser is a Berkman faculty fellow and an associate professor of law at
the University of St. Gallen, where he serves as the director of the Research
Center for Information Law.
Before joining the St. Gallen faculty, Urs spent three years as a research and
teaching fellow at the Berkman Center, where he was the lead fellow on the
Digital Media Project, a multi-disciplinary research project aimed at exploring
the transition from offline/analog to online/digital media. At the Berkman
Center, Urs initiated and chaired the Harvard-Yale-Cyberscholar Working Group.
In the 2003/04 academic year, Urs was also a visiting researcher at Harvard Law
School.
Urs’ research focuses on legal frameworks aimed at regulating information and
communication processes, and on effects of structural changes in the information
environment on the legal system. Current research projects explore the
regulation of digital media (with emphasis on IP law), the anatomy of
informational standards, and information quality issues.
Professor William McGeveran specializes in information law, including
intellectual property, data privacy, communications and technology, and free
speech. His current research focuses on: digital identity and data privacy;
disclosure rules and norms in areas such as open records laws; and fair use and
the public domain in trademark and copyright law. He teaches civil procedure and
privacy courses. He regularly contributes to the "Info/Law" blog, available at blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw.
Professor McGeveran earned a J.D. magna cum laude from New York University and a
B.A. magna cum laude in political science from Carleton College here in
Minnesota. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, Professor McGeveran
was a resident fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
Law School. He previously clerked for Judge Sandra Lynch on the United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and practiced as an intellectual property
litigator at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. Before law school, Professor McGeveran
worked in national politics for seven years, primarily as a policy aide to
Democrats in the United States House of Representatives. He grew up in New York
City.
A Founding Editor of First Monday, the world's most widely read on-line peer reviewed journal, Rishab has studied and published on the way reputation works and motivates in online communities for over 12 years. Rishab leads the collaborative creativity group at UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands, and has conducted research collaborating with Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge & Tsinghua Universities, with funding from the US National Science Foundation and European Commission. He is a board member of the Open Source Initiative.
topAshish Goel is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University, and a member of Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford in 1999, and was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California from 1999 to 2002. His research interests lie in the design, analysis, and applications of algorithms. Professor Goel is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan faculty fellowship (2004-06), a Terman faculty fellowship from Stanford, and an NSF Career Award (2002-07).
Professor Goel is currently also the 3COM faculty development scholar in
Stanford's School of Engineering.
Eric Goldman is an Assistant Professor of Law at Santa Clara University
School of Law, where he is also Director of the school's High Tech Law
Institute. His research focuses on Internet law, particularly Internet
marketing and search engine issues. He has taught Cyberspace Law since
1995-96.
Before becoming a full-time law professor, Eric practiced law in the
Silicon Valley for 8 years, first as an Internet transactions attorney
at Cooley Godward LLP and then as General Counsel of Epinions.com, an
Internet start-up company. Prior to Santa Clara, he spent 4 years as an
Assistant Professor at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee,
WI.
He blogs on Internet law matters at the Technology & Marketing Law
Blog, http://blog.ericgoldman.org. He is a member of American Law
Institute.
Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf. He previously founded and sold three
Internet companies before age 30
From 2003-2006, Auren served as Chairman of Stonebrick Group and Chairman of
the Connector Group (Silicon Valley 100).
Auren was previously CEO of BridgePath Corporation, an enterprise software
company to recruiting and staffing firms that enabled collaborative placement
transactions. He sold BridgePath to Bullhorn in 2002. Auren founded Kyber
Systems, an Intranet development firm. He sold Kyber Systems to Human Ingenuity
in 1997 where he served as Vice President of Consulting. Auren was also a
non-employee co-founder of GetRelevant (sold to Lycos in 2002).
He the founder of the Silicon Forum and Dialog. Auren serves on the advisory
boards of MerchantCircle, Voxpop.tv, and the Pacific Research Institute.
He's an active angel investor in BrightRoll (where he is also a non-employee
co-founder), Meebo, Socializr, Edgeio, and Structural Wealth Management.
Auren served as an official election observer in Ukraine (2004) and the Republic
of Georgia (2003).
Auren Hoffman writes the Summation blog and is the co-author of the book 21st
Century Selling. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations
Research from UC Berkeley. He enjoys soccer, chess, and reading.
Darko Kirovski received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001. Since April 2000, he has been a researcher at Microsoft Research. His research interests include: Web services including reputation networks, reliable computing, system security, multimedia processing, and embedded system design. He has received the 1999 Microsoft Graduate Research Fellowship, the 2000 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference Graduate Scholarship, the 2001 ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation, and best paper awards at the ACM Multimedia 2002 and the IEEE MMSP 2006. He has authored more than 100 journal and conference papers and filed more than 40 patents.
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Mari joined the World Bank in 1992 where she managed and created some of the Bank's most innovative projects. Along with GlobalGiving co-founder Dennis Whittle and their teams, Mari organized the first series of strategic forums with the World Bank's president and senior management, and the first ever Innovation and Development Marketplaces. She also designed a range of investment projects in the Russia reform program, including a large-scale residential energy efficiency project, structural adjustment loans, and the World Bank's first legal reform project. In addition to her native Japanese, Mari also speaks Russian, German, Italian, and French. She has an undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University and did graduate work in Russian and Japanese history and politics at Harvard and Georgetown Universities. Mari also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
topHassan's PhD was from Carleton University (Canada) followed by postdoctoral work at NRC and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is a Senior Research Co-ordinator at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, and advisor to several other organizations. His value added combines technical skills, systems understanding, empathy, and creativity. As part of an ongoing research collaboration with Yi-Cheng Zhang, he is also writing a book on reputation systems and their impact on society. He is writing on positive developments at Worldchanging - bringing to a wider audience the tools, technology, customs, and groups that our civilization needs to keep moving forward.
Beth Simone Noveck is Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Information Law & Policy (http://www.nyls.edu/infolaw), New York Law School. She is McClatchy Visiting Assoc. Professor, Communication, Stanford University. She teaches intellectual property, First Amendment and the law of e-democracy and e- government. Her work focuses on the impact of new technology on institutions and organizations, exploring how computer networks and interfaces decentralize power. Noveck founded the “Do Tank” (http://dotank.nyls.edu) an R&D lab where students and faculty work across institutions to create legal and software code to foster collaborative problem-solving and governance. At the Do Tank lawyers innovate, harnessing the new tools of information and communications to the goals of social justice. Projects address, not only how law regulates technology, but how to wield technology to improve law teaching and practice, encourage participatory governance and enable collaboration within organizations and communities. Recently, the DoTank launched "Peer-to-Patent" (http://www.peertopatent) in cooperation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to open patent examination to public participation by scientific experts. Professor Noveck is the Founder of the State of Play annual conference on virtual worlds and co-editor of the NYU Press Book Series, Ex Machina: Law, Technology and Society. She is also the Founding Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society project. Professor Noveck graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor and Master of Arts. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. She pursued additional graduate work as a Rotary Foundation graduate fellow at Oxford University and earned a doctorate at the University of Innsbruck with the support of a Fulbright grant. She and her students blog at The Cairns Blog, available at http://cairns.typepead.com.
Vipul Ved Prakash is an experienced software engineer and
information security expert. He is the creator of "Vipul's
Razor", one of the first real-time, reputation-driven,
collaborative filtering systems to operate at Internet scale.
In 2001, Vipul moved from New Delhi to San Francisco,
where he co-founded Cloudmark Inc, to evolve the technology
and vision pioneered in Vipul's Razor. Cloudmark's messaging
security products have garnered critical acclaim and are
widely deployed in some of the largest ISPs around the
globe including Comcast, Earthlink, Time Warner Cable,
NTT, and UPC.
Vipul has written several open-source packages that are included
with popular UNIX distributions like Redhat, Debian and FreeBSD.
An avid technology writer, Vipul served on the editorial staff of
computing journals in India during the late 90s, and wrote a
column on Internet protocol design for PC World. His academic
papers have appeared in ACM Queue, First Monday and on Perl.com.
In 2003, MIT Technology Review named him amongst the "Top 100
Young Innovators in the World" for his work on Razor and
Cloudmark. Vipul is a frequent speaker at industry conferences
on security and computing.
He received his A.B. in English Literature from Washington University, where he was an early selection for Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. At Yale, Professor Solove won the university-wide scholarly writing Field Prize and served as symposium editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Following law school, Professor Solove clerked for The Honorable Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. After practicing law as an associate at the firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., Professor Solove began a second clerkship with The Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Solove began his law teaching career at Seton Hall Law School in 2000. He joined the George Washington University Law School faculty in 2004.
Professor Solove writes in the areas of information privacy law, cyberspace law, law and literature, jurisprudence, legal pragmatism, and constitutional theory. He teaches information privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature.
An internationally known expert in privacy law, Professor Solove has been interviewed and quoted by the media in over 100 articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and National Public Radio.
Professor Solove is the author of five books, including: THE FUTURE OF REPUTATION: GPOSSIP, RUMOR, AND PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET (Yale University Press, 2007), UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY (Harvard University Press, forthcoming spring 2008), The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (NYU Press, 2004) and Information Privacy Law (Aspen, 2006) (with Marc Rotenberg & Paul M. Schwartz), a casebook now in its second edition. Solove has written over 25 articles and essays, which have appeared or are forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, NYU Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and Duke Law Journal, among others. He has consulted in high-profile privacy law cases, contributed to amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, and testified before Congress. He serves on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and is on the board of the Law and Humanities Institute. Professor Solove blogs at Concurring Opinions, a blog covering issues of law, culture, and current events.
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Executive responsible for driving and executing the cross-company business and technical strategy for open standards and open source as they relate to software, hardware, services, vertical industries, and emerging markets. In particular, helps move IBM from its traditional technical and intellectual property approach to one where business exploitation of standards and open source for greater customer value is paramount, especially in vertical industries and emerging markets. Chairman of the IBM internal Corporate Standards Advisory Committee and the Open Source Steering Committee.
Works with partners, customers, government leaders and government agencies around the world to understand and adopt modern, business-savvy open strategies and policies. Leads the IBM team accelerating the adoption of the OASIS and ISO OpenDocument Format standard. Senior IBM spokesperson and evangelist for standards and open source, and a widely quoted and read global expert on these areas and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Named in 2006 as one of Computer Business Review’s “Open Source VIPs”. Presented the keynote address “Open vs. Proprietary: Issues and considerations in the software world” at the University of Texas School of Law conference on the Frontiers of Intellectual Property.
topBefore his tenure as the FTC commissioner, Mr. Thompson most recently held the position of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, where he was responsible for overseeing domestic spending and credit policies, including the operations of the Federal Financing Bank and the Office of Government Financing.
Mr. Thompson was responsible for creating the Office of Privatization, which among its activities, provides guidance on the privatization of federal assets and operations. Mr. Thompson was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary since April 1996. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary in August 1993.
Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Thompson served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel to the New York State Finance Agency and its four sister corporations. In addition, he was an adjunct associate professor at the Fordham University School of Law where he taught courses in municipal law and finance. Mr. Thompson also was an attorney with the New York firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom.
Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School. He also holds an M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. After graduating law school, Mr. Thompson served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge William M. Hoeveler in Miami, Florida.
Mr. Thompson has been active in a number of professional and civic organizations, including the Association of Black Princeton Alumni and the Executive Board of Practicing Attorneys for Law Students, a mentoring organization assisting African-American and Latino law students. He is a member of the bar in New York State and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Thompson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Charles and Eiko Suzaki Thompson of West Babylon, New York.
topRebecca Tushnet has had the extraordinary privilege of clerking for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia and Associate Justice David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court. She spent two years as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in Washington, DC, specializing in intellectual property. After two years at the NYU School of Law, she moved to Georgetown, where she teaches intellectual property, advertising law, and First Amendment law.
Her publications include "Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science" (Texas L. Rev. forthcoming 2007); "My Library: Copyright and the Role of Institutions in a Peer-to-Peer World" (UCLA L. Rev. 2006), "Copy This Journal: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It" (Yale L.J. 2004), and "Copyright as a Model for Free Speech Law" (B.C. L. Rev. 2000). Her work currently focuses on the relationship between the First Amendment and false advertising law. She has advised and represented several fan fiction websites in disputes with copyright and trademark owners. She is a member of the board of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting fanworks. She is also an expert on the law of engagement rings.
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Jonathan Zittrain is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. Professor Zittrain is a co-founder of HLS's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000.
Zittrain's research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom.