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Article on Online Advertising and Privacy in the May issue of Communications of the ACM

By Stuart Soffer on

The May 2011 issue of Communications of the ACM has a Viewpoint article entitled, "Economic and Business Dimensions: Online Advertising, Behavioral Targeting, and Privacy", written by Avi Goldfarb (U Toronto) and Catherine Tucker (MIT).

Also in this issue is an article by Tim Wu (CIS/SLS must have heard it last week) on "Law and Technology: Bell labs and Centralized Innovation."

The news is that these appear in a Computer Science academic journal. It's obvious that it should today. But forty years ago the legal and tech worlds (and Computer Science education) was not on each other's mutual radar.

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