Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan Zittrain is a professor of law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as well as a professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Zittrain’s research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. Zittrain performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and Saudi Arabia, and as part of the OpenNet Initiative he has co-edited a series of studies of Internet filtering by national governments. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Internet Society, the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the board of advisors for Scientific American. His book, The Future of the Internet, was published in 2008.

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Peering into the future, what will the world look like if we apply the principles of cloud computing to human computing... See more
The US has struggled for centuries to determine the appropriate trade offs between security, privacy, transparency and... See more