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Richard Benefield is deputy director of the Harvard University Art Museums. Before coming to Harvard in 1999, he held similar positions at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (1996-99), and the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University (1988-96). Prior to his museum work, he performed extensively and taught various music courses at Baylor University, Paris (TX) Junior College, Boston University, and Providence College. At the Harvard University Art Museums, he has led efforts to build the information technology staff and infrastructure. In April 2002, the Art Museums launched a searchable database of its collections, Collections Online, accessible on the Internet at www.artmuseums.harvard.edu


Derek Bok has been a lawyer and professor of law, dean of Harvard Law School, and president of Harvard University. He currently serves as 300th Anniversary University Professor and teaches a course called "Current Problems of American Government" at the Kennedy School of Government and a course at the Graduate School of Education called "Current Criticisms of Higher Education." Professor Bok's current research interests include the state of higher education and a project sponsored by several foundations on the adequacy of government in the United States in coping with the nation's domestic problems. He published a book on this subject entitled The State of the Nation in 1996 and a sequel entitled The Trouble with Government in 2001. He has also written several books on higher education. Professor Bok has served on the board of trustees of the World Resources Institute and the University of Massachusetts. He is presently chair of the board of overseers of the Curtis Institute, the national chair of Common Cause, chair of the Spencer Foundation, and faculty chair of the Hauser Center for the study of nonprofit organizations and philanthropy at Harvard.

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Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Harvard College Professor. His research is focused on intellectual, social, and cultural change in China since the seventh century. Professor Bol is also a founder of the East Asian Digital Consortium and currently leads several projects aimed at enhancing digital information linkages between East Asian and Western research centers. He also directs the China Historical Geographic Information Systems project, a collaboration between Harvard and Fudan University in Shanghai to create the first GIS for Chinese history. He has lectured widely in the China, Taiwan, and Japan, as well as in the United States. His publications include: Ways with Words, Culture and the State in Chinese History, Energizing China: Reconciling Protection And Economic Growth, "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China, Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China, Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching, Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage, and various articles on intellectual and cultural history.

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Jean Camp is an associate professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Before joining Harvard, Professor Camp was a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Her work is primarily in the interaction of technology, society, and the economy, with a special regard for issues of values and civil liberties. Her current research agenda concerns the economic, security, and privacy implications of quality of service (QoS) mechanisms, and the human-computer interaction implications of the human perception of the trustworthiness of computers. She is also a senior member of the IEEE, and an elected director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. She is the author of Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce and many articles on technical issues of social importance and on social issues with critical technical elements.

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Kim B. Clark, dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School, is also the George F. Baker Professor of administration. He has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1978. Professor Clark's research is focused on modularity in design and the integration of technology and competition in industry evolution, with a particular focus on the computer industry. He and Carliss Baldwin are co-authors of a new book on the topic entitled Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Other recent publications include "Managing in an Age of Modularity" (with C.Y. Baldwin, Harvard Business Review, September-October 1997). Earlier research has focused on the areas of technology, productivity, product development, and operations strategy with numerous publications on these topics.

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Robert C. Clark is dean and Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prior to becoming dean in 1989, Professor Clark taught corporate law and corporate finance at Harvard as a professor of law. He has also taught at Yale Law School and worked as an associate at the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray. Professor Clark is the author of the one-volume treatise, Corporate Law (1986), and numerous articles about corporate law, governance of financial institutions, and health care regulation. Under his tenure as dean, Harvard Law School has increased the size of its faculty, greatly expanded its curriculum, brought about major improvements to the physical campus, launched the Hale & Dorr Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, completed the largest capital campaign in the Law School’s history, and recently finalized a comprehensive strategic plan designed to shape the future of the Law School for the next 10 to 20 years. Professor Clark received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1972 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1971. He earned a B.A. from Maryknoll College in 1966.

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Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a leading historian of education, a nationally known expert on education research, and outgoing president of the Chicago-based Spencer Foundation. She was formerly a professor at New York University, where she served as chair of the Department of the Humanities and the Social Sciences and as director of the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education in the School of Education. Before joining the faculty at NYU, she taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, and was also a member of the Department of History. She is a member and former president of the National Academy of Education, has served as president of the History of Education Society and on the editorial boards of many journals, and is a member of many other professional associations. Dean Lagemann served on the Committee on the Scientific Principles of Education Research of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a trustee of the Russell Sage and Markle Foundations and former vice-chair of the board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences.

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John Deighton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 1994. His main research interest is in how interactive technologies shape the practice of marketing. Professor Deighton is editor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing, jointly with UC Berkeley Professor Russell Winer, which reports scholarly research in this emerging field. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Consumer Research. Recent Harvard Business Review articles include "How Snapple Got its Juice Back," "The Future of Interactive Marketing" and "Manage Marketing by the Customer Equity Test." Prior to joining the Harvard Business School, he was on the faculties of the University of Chicago, where he received the Hillel J. Einhorn award for excellence in teaching, and the Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College.

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Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings, which publishes a monthly technology-industry newsletter, Release 1.0, and sponsors two annual conferences, PC (Platforms for Communication) Forum in the U.S. and EDventure's High-Tech Forum in Europe. Ms. Dyson also writes a fortnightly column for the New York Times syndicate, Release 3.0. After graduating from Harvard in economics, Ms. Dyson began her serious career in 1974 as a fact-checker for Forbes and then rose to reporter. In 1977, she joined New Court Securities performing research, following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer, and renamed it EDventure Holdings. Ms. Dyson is involved as a trustee with many emerging organizations, including a two-year term as founding chairman of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international agency charged with setting policy with Internet's core infrastructure independent of government control. She remains an active player in discussions and policy-making concerning the Internet and society.

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William Fisher III received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst College and his graduate degrees (J.D. and Ph. D. in the History of American Civilization) from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984, he served as law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is currently Professor of Law and Director of the Harvard Program on Legal History. His academic honors include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1992-1993). In the spring of 1998, he led one of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's first online lecture and discussion series, Intellectual Property in Cyberspace. Currently, he serves as the Berkman Center's faculty director.

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Steven E. Hyman, MD, is provost of Harvard University and professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. From 1996 to 2001, he served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the component of the National Institutes of Health charged with generating the knowledge needed to understand, treat, and prevent mental illness. Prior to his position at NIMH, Dr. Hyman was professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of psychiatry research at Massachusetts General Hospital. His laboratory focused on mechanisms by which the neurotransmitter dopamine produced long-term changes in brain function by the regulating the expression of genes. He also taught neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and was the first faculty director of Harvard University's Interfaculty Initiative in Mind, Brain, and Behavior. In addition to research articles, Dr. Hyman has authored and edited several widely used basic and clinical textbooks. He is currently editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience. Dr. Hyman is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Nancy F. Koehn, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, is an authority on business history. Her research focuses on branding, business strategy, and connecting with customers in an age of technological innovation. She is currently working on a major study of women entrepreneurs—historical and present-day—who have helped shape the development of modern business. Before HBS, Professor Koehn was a lecturer in the University’s history and literature concentration and in the department of economics. She is the author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell, and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. She also contributed to: The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995; Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions; and Management Past and Present: A Casebook on American Business History. In 1998, the HBS Student Association selected Professor Koehn as one of two outstanding professors in the elective curriculum. In 2001, Business 2.0 named her one of 19 leading business gurus in the United States.

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Anthony L. Komaroff, MD, is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, senior physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and is editor-in-chief of Harvard Health Publications, a division of Harvard Medical School that is responsible for publishing information about health for the general public, in books, newsletters and on the Internet. From 1982-1997, Dr. Komaroff served as director of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was also vice president for Information Systems at Brigham and Women's Hospital and was administratively responsible for building an internationally-recognized hospital computer system. Dr. Komaroff is the founding editor of Journal Watch, a publication of the Massachusetts Medical Society/New England Journal of Medicine, and the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide. He serves on advisory committees for the Surgeon General of the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the U.S. Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences. In recognition of his work, Dr. Komaroff has received several research awards, and has been elected to fellowship in the American College of Physicians, the Association for Health Services Research, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Richard M. Losick is the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, a Harvard College Professor, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B. in Chemistry at Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon completion of his graduate work, Professor Losick was named a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is a past chairman of the Departments of Cellular and Developmental Biology and Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He received the Camille and Henry Dreyfuss Teacher-Scholar Award, and he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a former visiting scholar of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

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Christopher Lydon has been a distinctive voice in print, television, and radio journalism for more than 30 years. A national political correspondent for the New York Times, he covered the McGovern, Humphrey, Reagan, and Carter presidential campaigns in the 1970s. For nearly 15 years he was the host of "The Ten O'Clock News" on WGBH, Channel 2, public television. In 1994 with producer Mary McGrath, Mr. Lydon inaugurated "The Connection" on WBUR, public radio in Boston. Widely cited as the best talk show on the air, "The Connection" was carried by National Public Radio and more than 75 public stations around the country. Mr. Lydon also ran for mayor of Boston in 1993 in a citizens' campaign for radical school reform.

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Mark H. Moore is the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management and the director of the university-wide Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He also founded and served as chair of the Kennedy School's Committee on Executive Education Programs for more than a decade. Professor Moore's research interests are public management and leadership, civil society and community mobilization, and criminal justice policy and management. His publications include: Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government; Buy and Bust: The Effective Regulation of an Illicit Market in Heroin; Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Targets of Justice; From Children to Citizens: The Mandate for Juvenile Justice; and Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing.

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Dan Moriarty is assistant provost for university information systems and chief information officer at Harvard University. From 1998 to 1999 he was the chief information officer and dean for information technology at Harvard Medical School, where he was responsible for the planning and management of the School's activities in IT, continuing medical education, and consumer health publications. Prior to this he was also the chief information officer and associate dean at the Medical School. He is past director of the healthcare information systems practice at Applied Practice Management (APM, now part of CSC Index), where he was responsible for east coast operations. Prior to joining APM, he was president of JSI Information Systems, a software development company in Boston. Mr. Moriarty has taught at Harvard University for 10 years, most recently at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was course director for the school's executive healthcare information systems courses. He currently teaches competitive strategy in the graduate curriculum at the SPH.

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Charles Nesson joined the Harvard Law School Faculty in 1966 and is the William F. Weld Professor of Law. He is the co-founder and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. He has taught courses on evidence, ethics, criminal law, trial advocacy, and torts that have incorporated the latest technologies. Professor Nesson is well known as moderator for the Fred Friendly Seminars on public television. He has served as a public defender on the Massachusetts Defenders Committee and as counsel in the Woburn toxic tort case and various civil liberties cases. After law school, he clerked for Justice John Marshall Harlan of the United States Supreme Court and served as a special assistant to John Doar in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.

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Charles Ogletree is the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and a prominent legal theorist. He is currently of counsel to the Washington, D.C., firm of Jordan, Keys, Jessamy & Botts. His extensive national media experience includes moderating the nationally televised forum State of the Black Union, as well as several Fred Friendly Seminars on public television, and serving as NBC legal commentator on the O.J. Simpson case and as legal counsel to Professor Anita Hill during the Senate Confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas. Professor Ogletree is the co-author of the award-winning book, Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation of Police Conduct in Minority Communities. In 2001, he received the prestigious Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit from the Washington Bar Association. This past year, he was selected by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.

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John Palfrey is Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. A long-time affiliate of the Berkman Center, John comes to the Berkman Center from the law firm Ropes & Gray. John is a co-founder and a former officer of Analine.com, a Boston-based technology company. He also served as a Special Assistant at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton administration. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Charles River Watershed Association. He teaches, with Berkman Fellow Rebecca Nesson, Internet & Society: the Technologies and Politics of Control at the Harvard Extension School. John graduated from Harvard College, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School.

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John A. Quelch is senior associate dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Between 1998 and 2001 he was dean of the London Business School. Prior to 1998, he was the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and co-chair of the marketing area at Harvard Business School. In 2002, Professor Quelch became the non-executive chairman of the Massachusetts Port Authority, which oversees three airports and the maritime port of Boston. Professor Quelch is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the British American Business Council. He is a director of WPP Group plc and easyJet plc, and was previously a director of Reebok International Ltd. Professor Quelch has served as a consultant, seminar leader, and speaker for firms, industry associations, and government agencies in more than 40 countries. He has consulted to over 50 leading firms including AT&T, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Gillette, General Electric, IBM, Novartis, and Procter & Gamble. His publications include: Global Marketing Management, Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management, and Ethics in Marketing.

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Jeffrey F. Rayport is founder and CEO of Marketspace LLC, a research and consulting firm working with information industries companies. Marketspace is a unit of Monitor Group, the Cambridge-based strategic advisory services and merchant banking firm. He was previously on the faculty at Harvard Business School, researching new information technologies and their impacts on companies' service and marketing strategies. While at HBS, he developed the first e-commerce course at a top-tier business school in the nation. Dr. Rayport is co-author of three leading MBA textbooks on strategy in the networked economy. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Financial Times, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, and McKinsey Quarterly.

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Michael Shinagel is dean of continuing education and University Extension School and senior lecturer on English. Dean Shinagel recently stepped down as master of Quincy House, a position he assumed in 1986. In his more than 30 years of service at Harvard University, Dean Shinagel has been a teaching fellow in general education, tutor in English, associate director of the office for graduate and career plans, member of the board of freshman advisors, Peace Corps liaison officer, director of the Summer School, chair of dramatics, board member of the Harvard graduate society, president of the Harvard Faculty Club, and publisher of the Harvard Review. He has also held faculty positions at Cornell and Union College. Dean Shinagel's specialization is English literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century on which he is widely published. Among his many honors, Dean Shinagel is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an awardee of Doctor Honoris Causa (International University of Ecuador), and a listee in Who's Who in America, Directory of American Scholars, Twentieth-Century Authors, and Who's Who in American Education.

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John D. Spengler is the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, and director of the Environmental Science and Engineering Program in the Department of Environmental Health, at Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Spengler has conducted research in the areas of personal monitoring, air pollution health effects, aerosol characterization, indoor air pollution and air pollution meteorology. More recently, he has been involved in research that includes the integration of knowledge about indoor and outdoor air pollution as well as other risk factors into the design of housing, buildings and communities. Several new efforts are underway to investigate housing design and its effects on ventilation rates, building materials’ selection, energy consumption, and total environmental quality in homes. In addition, to his academic and research activities, Professor Spengler has been active in professional education workshops and short courses on topics that include pollution prevention and indoor environmental quality management for schools, offices and hospitals, and distance learning courses. He is co-editor of three books: Indoor Air Quality Handbook; Particles in Our Air: Concentrations and Health Effects; and Indoor Air Pollution: A Health Perspective. He is on the editorial board of the journal Indoor Air, and he is the President (2002) of the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences.

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Judy Stahl is the chief information officer at Harvard Business School. In this role, Judy leads the School's Information Technology Group that provides centralized technology client services, software application development and technology support for the School's faculty, staff, and students. After receiving her M.B.A. from HBS in 1996, Judy joined the IT Group as the Head of MBA Client Services in which she was the liaison between the IT Group and the MBA Program overseeing IT projects for the MBA faculty, administrators, and students. She then transitioned to the Head of Customer Services where she was responsible for delivery of customer service and technical support across the School. In January 1999, Judy took over as the director of the IT Group and moved into her present role in December 2001. Prior to her work at Harvard Business School, she owned a computer training and consulting company in Los Angeles, California. In addition to her M.B.A., Judy has her bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. You can learn more about the role of technology at HBS at http://www.hbs.edu/it.

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Lawrence H. Summers took office as 27th president of Harvard University in July 2001. Mr. Summers is the former Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard, and in the past decade served in a series of senior public policy positions, most recently as secretary of the treasury of the United States. Having received a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, Mr. Summers attended Harvard as a doctoral student in economics and completed his Ph.D. in 1982. He was named an assistant professor of economics at MIT in 1979 and an associate professor in 1982. He then went to Washington as a domestic policy economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. In 1983, he returned to Harvard as a professor of economics. Mr. Summers took leave from Harvard in 1991 to return to Washington as vice president of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank. In 1993, he was named as the nation's undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs and in 1995 was promoted to the department's number-two post, deputy secretary of the treasury. In 1999, Mr. Summers became secretary of the treasury. At the end of his term, he was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Medal, the treasury department's highest honor. In 2002, Mr. Summers was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. His many publications include Understanding Unemployment (1990) and Reform in Eastern Europe (1991, coauthored with others). He also edited the series Tax Policy and the Economy.

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Sidney Verba is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library. He is the author and co-author of a number of books on American and comparative politics, including Participation in America, which won the Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association, and The Changing American Voter, which won the Woodrow Wilson Prize. In 1993, Professor Verba won the James Madison Prize of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for a career contribution to the discipline; and in 2002, he was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize, an international prize for distinguished contribution to political science. In 1994, he was elected president of the APSA. Professor Verba is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a Guggenheim fellow. His current research interests involve the relationship of political to economic equality, mass and elite political ideologies, and mass political participation.

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Ami Vora is a senior at Harvard College majoring in computer science. Ms. Vora is the current president of the Harvard Computer Society, and has been a teaching fellow and tutor for computer science classes. She has also been active in theatrical and literary activities on campus, and is the current director of the Blues Department of the Harvard radio station. As a strong advocate of the Internet, Ms. Vora is concerned that digital rights management and Internet policies and legislation will affect the use of the Internet as a tool for communication.

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Jonathan Zittrain is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000. His research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role that is played by private intermediaries in Internet architecture. He currently teaches Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control, and has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom. He is also a fourteen-year veteran sysop of CompuServe's online forums.

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