Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.

Career

Levy is a senior writer for Wired. Previously, he was chief technology writer and a senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has had articles published in Harper's, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Premiere, and Rolling Stone. He is regarded (along with Walter Mossberg) as a prominent and respected critic of Apple Inc.. In July 2004, Levy wrote a cover story (which also featured an interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs) which unveiled the 4th generation of the iPod to the world before Apple had officially done so, an unusual event since Apple is well known for its tight-lipped press policy.

Levy has won several awards, including the "Computer Press Association Award" for a report he co-wrote in 1998 on the Year 2000 problem.

In 1978, Steven Levy rediscovered Albert Einstein's brain in the office of the pathologist who removed and preserved it.

In 1984, he wrote a book called Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, in which he described a “hacker ethic”, which became a guideline to understanding how computers have advanced into the machines that we know and use today. He identified this Hacker Ethic to consist of key points such as that all information is free, and that this information should be used to “change life for the better”.

Levy received his bachelor's degree from Temple University and earned a Master's degree in literature from Pennsylvania State University. He lives in New York City with his wife, Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter, and son.

Books by Levy

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (2011)

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (2006)

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age (2001)

Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything (1994)

Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation (1992)

The Unicorn's Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius (1988)

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984)

External links

Steven Levy's website

iPod: I love you, you're perfect, now change- Salon.com article on Levy's 2006 book The Perfect Thing

Authors@Google: Steven Levy

Lebowski Podcast Episode 27 - Steven Levy's Wish List Interview with Steven Levy about The Big Lebowski and his interview with the Coen Brothers.

Lebowski Podcast Episode 27a - Steven Levy on Technology Chalupa and Steven Levy talk about blogging, twitter, internet security, etc.

References

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Matt Cutts works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. He is well known in the SEO community for enforcing the Google Webmaster Guidelines and cracking down on link spam. Cutts also advises the public on how to get better website visibility in Google as well as webmaster issues in general, and is generally an outspoken and public face of Google.

Career

Cutts started his career in search when working on his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matt got his Bachelor's degree at the University of Kentucky and Master's degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His field of study was computer graphics and movement tracking, then moved into the field of information retrieval, and search engines after taking two required outside classes from the university's Information and Library Science department. He co-oped at United States Department of Defense. He did not complete the Ph.D. before moving to Google, but did acquire a master's degree.

Before working at the Search Quality group at Google, Cutts worked at the ads engineering group and SafeSearch, Google's family filter. There he earned the nickname "porn cookie guy" by giving his wife's homemade cookies to any Googler who provided an example of unwanted pornography in the search results.

Cutts is one of the co-inventors listed upon a Google patent related to search engines and web spam, which was the first to publicly propose using historical data to identify link spam.

In August 2006, Cutts allegedly admitted to using the identity GoogleGuy in posts to web related boards, though Cutts later said he was quoted out of context.

In November 2010, Cutts started a contest challenging developers to make Microsoft Kinect more compatible with the Linux operating system. At the time, Microsoft had stated that the use of Kinect with devices other than the Xbox 360 was not supported by them.

References

Further reading

External links

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO – his personal blog

Matt Cutts on Twitter

2009 BusinessWeek profile

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Coordinates	12°58′0″N77°34′0″N
Name	Vinton Cerf
Birth date	June 23, 1943
Birth place	New Haven, Connecticut
Residence	USA
Citizenship	United States of America
Field	Computer science
Workplaces	IBM, UCLA, Stanford University, DARPA, MCI, CNRI, Google
Alma mater	Stanford University, UCLA
Known for	TCP/IPInternet Society
Prizes	National Medal of TechnologyPresidential Medal of FreedomTuring Award
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Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees, and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

In the early days, Cerf was a program manager for the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funding various groups to develop TCP/IP technology. When the Internet began to transition to a commercial opportunity during the late 1980s, Cerf moved to MCI where he was instrumental in the development of the first commercial email system (MCI Mail) connected to the Internet.

Vinton Cerf was instrumental in the funding and formation of ICANN from the start. Cerf waited in the wings for a year before he stepped forward to join the ICANN Board. Eventually he became the Chairman of ICANN.

In 1992 he co-founded, with Bob Kahn the Internet Society to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education and policy.

Cerf has worked for Google as its Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist since September 2005. In this function he has become well known for his predictions on how technology will affect future society, encompassing such areas as artificial intelligence, environmentalism, the advent of IPv6 and the transformation of the television industry and its delivery model.

Cerf also went to the same high school as Jon Postel and Steve Crocker; he wrote the former's obituary. Both were also instrumental in the creation of the Internet as we know it (see articles).

Since 2010, Cerf has served as a Commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, a UN body which aims to make broadband internet technologies more widely available.

Life and career

Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Muriel (née Gray), a homemaker, and Vinton Thurston Cerf, an aerospace executive. Cerf's first job after obtaining his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Stanford University was at IBM, where he worked for less than two years as a systems engineer supporting QUIKTRAN. He left IBM to attend graduate school at UCLA where he earned his M.S. degree in 1970 and his Ph.D. degree in 1972. During his graduate student years, he studied under Professor Gerald Estrin, worked in Professor Leonard Kleinrock's data packet networking group that connected the first two nodes of the ARPANet, the predecessor to the Internet, and "contributed to a host-to-host protocol" for the ARPANet. While at UCLA, he also met Robert E. Kahn, who was working on the ARPANet hardware architecture. After receiving his doctorate, Cerf became an assistant professor at Stanford University from 1972–1976, where he conducted research on packet network interconnection protocols and co-designed the DoD TCP/IP protocol suite with Kahn. thumb|right|Cerf playing Spacewar! on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1, ICANN meeting, 2007. Cerf then moved to DARPA in 1976, where he stayed until 1982.

As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982–1986, Cerf led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. Cerf rejoined MCI during 1994 and served as Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy. In this role, he helped to guide corporate strategy development from a technical perspective. Previously, he served as MCI's senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks, including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.

During 1997, Cerf joined the Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University, a university for the education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Cerf is hard of hearing.

Cerf joined the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1999, and served until the end of 2007.

Cerf is a member of the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov's IT Advisory Council, a group created by Presidential Decree on March 8, 2002. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy.

Cerf is also working on the Interplanetary Internet, together with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It will be a new standard to communicate from planet to planet, using radio/laser communications that are tolerant of signal degradation.

During February 2006, Cerf testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation's Hearing on “Network Neutrality”. Speaking as Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, Cerf blamed the anticompetitive intentions and practices of telecommunications conglomerates like Comcast and Verizon for the fact that nearly half of all consumers lack meaningful choice in broadband providers. Google made a bid in 2006 to offer free wireless broadband access throughout the city of San Francisco in conjunction with Internet service provider Earthlink, Inc. Vertically-integrated telecommunications incumbents like Comcast and Verizon opposed such efforts on the part of Silicon Valley firms like Google and Intel (which promotes the WiMax standard) as undermining their revenue in a form of "unfair competition" whereby cities would violate their commitments to offer local monopolies to telecommunications conglomerates. Google currently offers free wi-fi access in its hometown of Mountain View, California.

Cerf currently serves on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government. He also serves on the advisory council of CRDF Global.

Cerf is on the board of trustees of ARIN, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) of IP addresses for United States, Canada, and part of the Caribbean.

Cerf is on the board of directors of StopBadware, a non-profit anti-malware organization that Google has supported since its inception as a project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Cerf is on the board of advisors of The Hyperwords Company Ltd of the UK, which works to make the web more usefully interactive and which has produced the free Firefox Add-On called 'Hyperwords'.

During 2008 Cerf chaired the IDNAbis working group of the IETF.

Cerf was a major contender to be designated the nation's first Chief Technology Officer by President Barack Obama.

Cerf is the co-chair of Campus Party Silicon Valley, the US edition of one of the largest technology festivals in the world, along with Al Gore and Tim Berners-Lee.

Awards and honors

Cerf has received a number of honorary degrees, including doctorates, from the University of the Balearic Islands, ETH in Switzerland, Capitol College, Gettysburg College, George Mason University, Marymount University, University of Pisa, University of Rovira and Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), University of Twente (Netherlands), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Brooklyn Polytechnic, UPCT (University of Cartagena, Spain), Royal Roads University (Canada) and Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Further awards include:

Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year Award from UCLA

Prince of Asturias award for science and technology

Fellow of the IEEE, 1988, "for contributions and leadership in the design, development, and application of internet protocols"

Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1994, for "vision and leadership in the design, implementation, evolution, and dissemination of the TCP/IP computer communication protocol suite"

Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award, 1996

SIGCOMM Award for "contributions to the Internet [spanning] more than 25 years, from development of the fundamental TCP/IP protocols".

Certificate of Merit from The Franklin Institute, in 1996.

In December 1997 he, along with his partner Robert E. Kahn, was presented with the National Medal of Technology by President Bill Clinton, "for creating and sustaining development of Internet Protocols and continuing to provide leadership in the emerging industry of internetworking."

He received the Living Legend Medal from the Library of Congress in April 2000

Cerf was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) in 2000

Cerf and Kahn were the winners of the Turing Award for 2004, for their "pioneering work on internetworking, including .. the Internet's basic communications protocols .. and for inspired leadership in networking." In November 2005, Vinton Cerf and Kahn were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush for their contributions to the creation of the Internet.

He and Robert Kahn were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2006

Vinton Cerf was awarded the St. Cyril and Methodius in the Coat of Arms Order in July 2006

Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn were each inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) in May 2006

He and Robert Kahn were awarded the Japan Prize in January 2008.

Cerf was inducted into the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and given the Freedom of the City of London in April 2008.

Dr. Cerf was awarded an honorary membership in the Yale Political Union after keynoting a lively debate on the subject "Resolved: Online Communities are Real Communities." The motion passed. In celebration of the five year-anniversary of Youtube he was selected as a guest curator by the site, and chose the six videos on Youtube he found most memorable. In May 2011, he was awarded an HPI Fellowship as “[…]a tribute to his work for a new medium which influenced the everyday life of our society like no other one.”

Partial bibliography

Author

Zero Text Length EOF Message (RFC 13, August 1969)

IMP-IMP and HOST-HOST Control Links (RFC 18, September 1969)

ASCII format for network interchange (RFC 20, October 1969)

Host-host control message formats (RFC 22, October 1969)

Data transfer protocols (RFC 163, May 1971)

PARRY encounters the DOCTOR (RFC 439, January 1973)

'Twas the night before start-up (RFC 968, December 1985)

Report of the second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group, RFC 1109, August 1989

Internet Activities Board, RFC 1120, September 1989

Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network, RFC 1167, July 1990

Networks, Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991

Guidelines for Internet Measurement Activities, October 1991

A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY, RFC 1607, April 1, 1994

An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols, RFC 1790, April 1995

I REMEMBER IANA, RFC 2468, October 17, 1998

Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR, RFC 1217, April 1, 1999

The Internet is for Everyone, RFC 3271, April 2002

Co-author

Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication (IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 1974)

Vinton Cerf, Y. Dalal, C. Sunshine, Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program (RFC 675, December 1974)

Vinton Cerf, Jon Postel, Mail transition plan (RFC 771, September 1980)

Vinton Cerf, K.L. Mills Explaining the role of GOSIP, RFC 1169, August 1990

Clark, Chapin, Cerf, Braden, Hobby, Towards the Future Internet Architecture, RFC 1287, December 1991

Vinton Cerf et al., A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, RFC 1430, February 1993

Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28

Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S. Patent 6,418,138

Vinton Cerf et al., System for Distributed Task Execution June 3, 2003, U.S. Patent 6,574,628

Vinton Cerf et al., Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture (Informational Status), RFC 4838, April 2007

Notes and references

External links

A Protocol For Packet Network Intercommunication The IEEE paper Cerf co-wrote with Bob Kahn that describes TCP.

Oral history interview with Vinton G. Cerf. Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Cerf describes his involvement with the ARPA network, including his work for the Network Measurement Center at UCLA, and his relationships with Bolt Beranek and Newman, Robert Kahn, Lawrence Roberts, and the Network Working Group. Aso discusses development of the TCP/IP protocol, IPTO funding at Stanford University, his decision in 1976 to become a program manager for networking projects at IPTO, and the military use of IPTO networking projects.

Vint Cerf video lecture "Mobile and the Interplanetary Internet (Bundle Protocol on Earth and beyond)" at Aarhus University, Denmark

Vint Cerf video lecture "The Internet in 2035"

Vint Cerf video interview on the evolution of the Internet

Vint Cerf audio interview on The History of the Internet: Part I - Past - 16 minutes. Precursors & origins of the Internet

Vint Cerf audio interview on The History of the Internet: Part II - Present - 18 minutes. Internet Neutrality, Cloud Computing, Open Source / Collaboration

Vint Cerf audio interview on The History of the Internet: Part III - Future - 12 minutes. NASA's Interplanetary Internet, Speech & Gestural Interfaces, Quantum Entanglement

Internet Pioneers - Vint Cerf

ICANNWiki on Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf on "Freedom of the Internet", 45 mins., official web stream of presentation for Hungarian "TV University", March 2007

DeafLife features on Vint Cerf, November 1997

Vint Cerf lecture "Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century" for the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists at City University London in April 2008.

Vint Cerf on the future of the internet

Vinton Cerf on IPv6, video keynote for the German IPv6 summit 2008

Vinton Cerf Headline PTC's PTC'09 Conference January 2009. Video:Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

One hour radio interview about Google and the future of the internet on Entitled Opinions with Robert P. Harrison

Archive of 'Cerf's Up' webpages while at MCI, Inc..

Keynote Speaker at Internet Librarian 2009, October 2009

Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century discussion with Larry Smarr at University of California San Diego, April 2007

Video of interview What’s Next with the Internet at Churchill Club, January 2010

Keeping the Net Healthy discussion with Paul Mockapetris, Esther Dyson, and Bruce McConnell at The Commonwealth Club, October 2010

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Coordinates	12°58′0″N77°34′0″N
Name	Pradeep Sindhu
Birth date	September 4, 1953
Birth place	Mumbai, India
Known for	Co-founder, Juniper Networks
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon UniversityIndian Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Hawaii
Employer	Juniper Networks
Title	CTO , Juniper Networks Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Directors
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Pradeep Sindhu (1953, Mumbai, India) is the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer/ Vice Chairman of the Board of the Directors of Juniper Networks Inc. He was also the CEO of the company until 1996. Sindhu is considered a technical visionary in the field of high performance and networked computing.

Biography

Sindhu holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (1974) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1976) from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D (1982) in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University where he studied under Bob Sproull.

Work

Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARC for 11 years. Sindhu worked on design tools for very-large-scale integration(VLSI) of integrated circuits and high-speed interconnects for shared memory multiprocessors.

Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California. The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware on March 1998 in and went public on the 25th of June, 1999.

Sindhu was instrumental in the architecture, design, and development of the Juniper M40 data router while running the company.

Sindhu's earlier work was to subsequently influence the architecture, design, and development of Sun Microsystems' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which includes systems such as the SS1000 and SC2000.

References

External links

Pradeep Sindhu's entry on the Juniper Networks Website

Interview with Pradeep Sindhu

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Tim Wu (traditional Chinese: �?�修�?) is a professor at Columbia Law School, the former chair of media reform group Free Press, and a writer for Slate Magazine. He is also a former Bernard L. Schwartz and Future Tense fellow at The New America Foundation. He is best known for coining the phrase network neutrality in his paper Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, and popularizing the concept thereafter, leading in part to the 2010 passage of a federal Net Neutrality rule. Wu has also made significant contributions to wireless communications policy, most notably with his "Carterfone" proposal.

Wu's academic specialties are copyright and telecommunications policy. For his work in this area, Professor Wu was named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006. In 2007 Wu was named one of Harvard University's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine. His book The Master Switch was named among the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine, Fortune magazine, Publishers Weekly, and other publications.

On February 8, 2011 Columbia Law School announced that Professor Wu "[had] been named senior advisor to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for consumer protection and competition issues that affect the Internet and mobile markets." Having taken a leave of absence from Columbia, professor Wu began his new position, on February 14, at the FTC's Office of Policy Planning.

Background

Wu is an American citizen, but grew up in Toronto, Canada. His father is from the Republic of China (Taiwan) and his mother is British. They both studied as immunologists at the University of Toronto. Wu and his younger brother were sent to alternative schools that emphasized creativity. Wu's father died in 1980 and his mother bought him and his brother an Apple II computer using some of the insurance money, starting Wu's fascination with computers. He is married to Kate Judge.

Clerkships and academic career

Wu graduated from McGill University in 1995 with a B.Sc. in biochemistry and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1998. At Harvard, he studied under copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig. He worked with the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, after graduating law school, and before starting a clerkship with Richard Posner on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998-1999. Wu also clerked for Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court in 1999-2000. Following his clerkships, Wu worked at Riverstone Networks, Inc. (2000–02) and then entered academia at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Wu was Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia from 2002 to 2004, Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in 2004, Visiting Professor at Chicago Law School in 2005, and Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School in 2005. In 2006, he became a full professor at Columbia Law School and started Project Posner, a free database of all of Richard Posner's legal opinions. Wu called Posner "probably America's greatest living jurist."

Political contributions and activities

In 2003, Wu contributed to the Howard Dean and John Edwards presidential campaigns. During 2008, Wu served as an adviser to the Barack Obama presidential campaign.

Influence

Wu is credited with popularizing the concept of network neutrality in his 2003 paper Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. The paper considered network neutrality in terms of neutrality between applications, as well as neutrality between data and Quality of Service-sensitive traffic, and proposed some legislation to potentially deal with these issues.

In 2006, Wu wrote "The World Trade Law of Internet Filtering", which analyzed the possibility of the World Trade Organization treating censorship as a barrier to trade. In June 2007, when Google Inc. lobbied the United States Trade Representative to pursue a complaint against China's censorship at the WTO, Wu's paper was cited as a "likely source" for this idea. In 2006 Wu was also invited by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help draft the first network neutrality rules attached to the AT&T; and BellSouth merger.

In 2007, Wu published a paper proposing a "Wireless Carterfone" rule for mobile phone networks; the rule was adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for the 700 MHz spectrum auctions on July 31, 2007, with FCC Commissioner Michael Copps stating: "I find it extremely heartening to see that an academic paper—in this case by Professor Timothy Wu of Columbia Law School—can have such an immediate and forceful influence on policy." In November 2007 BusinessWeek credited Wu with providing "the intellectual framework that inspired Google's mobile phone strategy."

With his Columbia Law School colleagues Professors Scott Hemphill and Clarisa Long, Wu co-directs the Columbia Law School Program on Law and Technology, founded in 2007. In August 2007, in collaboration with the University of Colorado School of Law's Silicon Flatirons Program, the Columbia Law School Program on Law and Technology launched a Beta version of AltLaw, which he produced.

The Master Switch

Wu's 2010 book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires described a long "cycle" whereby open information systems becoming consolidated and closed over time, reopening only after disruptive innovation. The book shows this cycle develop with the rise of the Bell AT&T; telephone monopoly, the founding of the Hollywood entertainment industry, broadcast and cable TV industries, and finally with the internet industry. The book was named one of the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine, Fortune magazine, Amazon.com, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and others.

Selected publications

Book:

Tim Wu (2010) The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires New York Knopf (ISBN 0307269930, ISBN 978-0307269935)

Goldsmith, Jack L., and Tim Wu (2006) Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World New York: Oxford UP (ISBN 0195152662, ISBN 978-0195152661)

Articles:

(2007) Wireless Net Neutrality: Cellular Carterfone and Consumer Choice in Mobile Broadband, New America Foundation: Wireless Future Program. Working Paper No. 17, Newamerica.net

(2005) Copyright's Communications Policy, Michigan Law Review

(2004) The Broadband Debate: A User's Guide, Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law 3.69

(2003) Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law 2.2

Features:

"Airports". Timwu.org. Accessed August 24, 2008. (Personal Webpage review.)

"Keeping Secrets: A Simple Prescription for Keeping Google's Records out of Government Hands". Slate, January 23, 2006. Accessed August 24, 2008.

"Network Neutrality FAQ". Timwu.org. Accessed August 24, 2008. (Personal Webpage feature; hyperlinked articles by Wu and others.)

"No Ice". Timwu.org. Accessed August 24, 2008. (Personal Webpage feature.)

"Why You Should Care about Network Neutrality: The Future of the Internet Depends On It!". Slate, May 6, 2006. Accessed August 24, 2008.

Notes

Further reading and resources

Articles about Wu

Schneider-Mayerson, Anna "Wu-Hoo! Nutty Professor Is Voice of a Generation". The New York Observer, November 19, 2006.

Ante, Spencer. "Tim Wu, Freedom Fighter". Business Week, November 17, 2007.

Kim, Ryan. "Net Neutrality Guru to Speak at USF". "San Francisco Chronicle", January 25, 2008.

Audiovisual resources

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External links

Tim Wu – Faculty biography, Columbia Law School, Columbia University.

Profile at The New America Foundation

Tim Wu – Personal Website.

Tim Wu – Publications and papers by Tim Wu in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (abstracts; full texts).

Tim Wu on The Innovation Cycle at IIEA, 25 May 2009

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