Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society has generated a rushing river of ideas and discussions at the intersection of technology and society since its formation 10 years ago. The work has been so fundamental that Harvard announced this week that the Center, which is based in the law...
In the web counterrevolution that Jonathan Zittrain foresees, users will lose the ability to control content, companies will gain the power to censor data, and security will trump innovation. It’s a gloomy scenario that his new book, “The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It,” says is already underway....
THE INTERNET EXPLODED LIKE FEW other tech revolutions, and the digital clouds are still swirling with no indication of settling soon. But there's a problem. According to Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University, England, the seeds of the Net's destruction are...
Last year a new trojan was released into the wild that could rival commercial software in its sophistication. Dubbed 'Spamthru', the trojan ironically incorporates its own antivirus engine. When it takes ownership of a machine, it starts by cleaning out rival malware so that it has...
ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 2, 1988, a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student named Robert Tappan Morris Jr. used the Internet to transmit a small piece of software from a Cornell computer to an MIT one. Embedded in the MIT machine, Morris's software connected surreptitiously to other computers on the...
Ownership, all the business books agree, is a beautiful thing. Our president is a proponent of what he calls the "ownership society." Many of our nation's founding fathers believed that votes should be weighted according to how much land a man owned. A leader will encourage a sense of ownership...
News Advisory: -- Experts From NBC News, L.A. Times.com, Better Business Bureau,To Speak at Webwatch Conference at National Press Club -- Oxford/Harvard Professor Jonathan Zittrain to Keynote; PollReveals Web's Reputation at Risk, with Low Trust of Kids' Sites,Financial Sites Leaders from media, industry, law, consumer organizations andothers...
Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 22 AScribe Newswire -- Consumer Reports WebWatch will present findings from its national poll of Internet-savvy adults to the press, government, non-profit and private-sector executives at a one-day conference at the National Press Club Ballroom, Washington,...
YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following wasreleased today by Consumer Reports WebWatch: -- WebWatch to Reveal Results of Nationwide Poll Oct. 26 atConference at National Press Club, Washington, D.C. -- Harvard Law Professor, Noted Net Law Expert Jonathan Zittrainto Keynote Consumer Reports WebWatch will...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- June 22-24, 2005: TheBerkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School will hostILAW, a three-day program that will explore the changing legalsystems governing the Internet and the implications for internationalbusiness, entertainment, journalism, and government. Taught by some of the world's...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Berkman Center forInternet & Society at Harvard Law School will host ILAW, a three-dayprogram that will explore the changing legal systems governing theInternet and the implications for international business,entertainment, journalism, and government. Taught by some of the world's foremost experts on...
The Internet is increasingly the first place people turn for information. Health-related Web sites, for example, are now the third most popular online destination. But what if information found on the Internet causes harm? Is someone held responsible? Not under current U.S. product...
TNB Conference Jan. 26-28 SAN ANTONIO-TNB Card Services' 2005 Executive Card Conference will be held Jan. 26-28 at the Westin La Cantera Resort here. The 2005 Executive Conference is open to all TNB credit union executives and credit and debit card program managers and will feature economist Dr....
The Internet in China is filtered. This fact is found nowhere in Chinese newspapers, because the newspapers they read are filtered, too. Chinese citizens know about filtering only through gossip, or they put two and two together while surfing the Web and discover that certain sensitive...
"In some ways, the best protection is basically being a small fry--not worth the attention of the whale." --Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, regarding copyright laws that target big retailers rather than...
Penn State students heard Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain, who co-founded Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, say that music and movie industry groups are pressing computer and software makers to develop new technology that will restrict rampant illegal file sharing. He expects future...
Ruling the Root, Milton L. Mueller, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002, 301 pages. In the spring of 1998, the U.S. government told the Internet: Govern yourself. (1) This unfocused order--a blandishment, really, expressed as an awkward "statement of policy" by the...
By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 25--Researchers at Harvard have found that the French and German versions of the popular Google Internet search engine are quietly censoring information on controversial Web sites. ...
EUROPEMEDIA-C2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ A new Harvard study, released this week, reveals that Google, the world's most popular search engine, has removed over 100 controversial sites from some search result listings, reports CNET News. ...
Sep. 27--WASHINGTON--Microsoft's historic antitrust case is headed for an appeals court -- which is precisely where the software giant wants it to be. The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to review the case, voting 8-1 to let an appellate panel pore over a...
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