Date: Tuesday, December 12; 3:00p

Location: G10 Biotech

Abstract:

Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of Computer Science, says that the future of the Internet is policy. Yochai Benkler agrees, and lays out those policy choices that will shape the future of the Net, layer by layer: physical, logical, application, and content.

Bio:

Yochai Benkler is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment. His particular focus has been on the neglected role of commons-based approaches towards management of resources in the digitally networked environment. He has written about the economics and political theory of rules governing telecommunications infrastructure, with a special emphasis on wireless communications, rules governing private control over information, in particular intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of U.S. constitutional law.

*co-sponsored by the Cornell Law School

For more information, please contact Tracy Mitrano.

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12-05-2006 Sarah