Main Page/ICP Team

Professor

Yochai Benkler

Berkman Fellow and Project Coordinator

Carolina Rossini
ICP Wiki Username: WikiSysop

Research Assistants

• Brendan Ballou

Brendan Ballou is a research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, focusing on the Institutional Cooperation Project. Previously he has worked on the Open Net Initiative and Jonathan Zittrain's Future of the Internet blog. Beyond the Berkman Center, Brendan has been involved with Public Knowledge, Free Culture, and One Laptop Per Child. Brendan is also an avid runner, a terrible cook, and an okay stand-up comic.

Brendan was a Research Assistant from XXX to XXX, and contributed to research on Biotechnology - Genomic and Proteomics.

• Silas Bauer

Silas Bauer completed his Masters Degree in Energy Policy in May 2009 while working on the Cooperation Project at Berkman. His thesis addressed the economic and political factors affecting the success of US and European renewable energy subsidy programs and proposed policy options to spur growth in US green jobs and the renewable energy industry. He has worked and volunteered in both the private and public sector in the areas of renewable energy policy and energy efficiency consulting. He just completed his first triathlon at the half-ironman distance, is an avid cyclist and full-time bicycle commuter and is an occasional marathoner and shorter distance runner. In his former career he worked with high school students in the over-stressed world of college admissions, spending his afternoons as a coach for the school's rowing team.

Silas was a Research Assistant from XXX to XXX, and contributed to research on Alternative Energy.

• Andrew Clearwater

Andrew Clearwater is a research assistant with the Cooperation Research Group at the Berkman Center. He is the president of the Maine Association for Law and Innovation and part of a working group that provides legal and economic research related to offshore wind development to the Maine Task Force on Wind Power. He has recently worked for the University of Maine Office of Research and Economic Development aiding in the technology transfer process and focusing on alternative energy. In 2007 he was awarded the Bride Family Fellowship to study the technology transfer process by splitting his time between a research computing group, business incubator, and intellectual property clinic. Andrew has written about trademark protection of open source software. He has been active in the Maine Center for Law and Innovation which aids inventors with free legal services to lower the transaction costs of innovation. Andrew earned a BA in Anthropology and Sociology and is currently completing his JD.

Andrew was a RA from XX to XX, and contributed to research on Alternative Energy and on Diagnostic Kits

• Mac Cowell

Mac is developing cheap, reliable, and simple molecular biology techniques and DIY-equipment for amateur biotechnologists. He is one of the founders of a community of amateur biologists called [diybio.org], for people who want to understand, and in some cases, re-engineer the living world, in a safe, economic, and fun way.

Mac was a RA from XX to XX, and contributed to the research on Diagnostic Kits

• Erhardt Graeff

Erhardt Graeff is a research assistant within the Institutional Cooperation Research Group project and a recent MPhil graduate from the University of Cambridge, where he focused on sociological theory and qualitative examination of rural internet use and social capital. In various forms/fora, he has researched and written on digital divides, e-government, networked public spheres, new media literacy, and Wikipedia. Occasionally, he flexes his web programming skills gained while an IT student at Rochester Institute of Technology, but right now he would rather work on his Russian than his Ruby.

Research Assistant from XX to XX, and contributed to the research on Educational Materials

Research Associate

• Michael Steffen

Michael contributed to the research on Telecommunications

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