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Five Nonobvious Ways Seattle Is Wired
I recently moved from San Francisco to Seattle. Among my concerns were (a) weather, (b) Mexican food, and (c) the technology sector. There is a sea of clouds…
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Angst vor den fliegenden Augen
"Es ist wie mit anderen Errungenschaften auch, die zunächst überwiegend vom Militär genutzt wurden", sagt Ryan Calo von der Washington State Universit…
Open Book Club: A Conversation With Neal Stephenson
CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo interviews Neal Stephenson, author of Readme. Topics include privacy, virtual economics and security. Beth Cantrell, Greg Lastow…
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Fair Use Prospers on Campus
Last week's decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust -- upholding the Mass Digitization Project (MPD) -- was a big victory for fair use. The MDP is a project…
BIG DATA: Professor Omer Tene Explains the Privacy Risks Behind the Buzz
Professor Omer Tene, privacy expert in law and technology, sat down with TAP to discuss the risks big data poses to privacy and the challenges to existing priva…
Prof. Shubha Ghosh - Hearsay Culture - Show #174 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technol…
Prof. Chris Sprigman - Hearsay Culture - Show #173 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technol…
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My Comments on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality and Quality of Service
(Cross-posted from netarchitecture.org) Earlier this summer, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) held a public consultation o…
Comments on the European Commission’s Public Consultation on Specific Aspects of Transparency, Traffic Management and Switching in an Open Internet
I welcome the opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s Public Consultation on Specific Aspects of Transparency, Traffic Management and Switching in a…
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Licensing Autonomous Cars
This post is about licensing partly autonomous cars. Not legally speaking, autonomous cars are those which can drive themselves without any human input, and par…
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CIS Affiliates 2012-2014 Announced
We are happy to announce the new 2012-2014 CIS Affiliates. The new affiliates are the following: Affiliate ScholarsMarvin AmmoriPeter AsaroRyan CaloDanielle Ci…
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Self-Driving Cars
A green light in California this week for self-driving cars. Not flooding the highways yet, no. But on their way. Cars where your hands are not on the wheel.…