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Mediator appointed in MS antitrust case
News He graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1959 with an English degree and graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. Along with the naming of a mediator, Judge Jackson invited...
[November 22, 1999, 8:35]
Harvard to steward popular blog tool
News The Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is the new keeper of the specification for a popular Web log tool. The Berkman Centre took over ownership of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 specification this week after...
[July 21, 2003, 15:46]
Is eBay the future of Web politics?
News A panel of Internet gurus gathered on Friday at the fifth annual Votes, Bits & Bytes conference in Cambridge, Massachussetts, held by the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School to discuss the impact of Internet business models...
[December 13, 2004, 10:45]
Google excludes controversial sites
News The Harvard report, prepared by law student Ben Edelman and assistant professor Jonathan Zittrain and scheduled to be released on Thursday, is the result of automated testing of Google's massive 2.5 billion-page index and comparing the results...
[October 24, 2002, 7:56]
Sunbelt ruffles spyware feathers
News Ben Edelman, a Harvard Law School student and spyware researcher, agreed. Kennedy, an attorney at Morrison & Foerster in Washington, DC and adjunct professor of cyberlaw at Catholic University Law School.
[November 11, 2005, 12:15]
Report to World Bank recommends open standards
News The report was by The Open ePolicy Group for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. The report was a collaborative effort of senior government officials from thirteen countries, representatives of global organisations...
[September 12, 2005, 18:00]
Digital copyright law on trial
News By suing on behalf of Edelman, who is a researcher at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center and a first-year law student there, the civil liberties group hopes to prompt the first ruling that would curtail the DMCA's wide reach.
[October 31, 2002, 8:30]
Cyberterrorism: Security versus liberty
News People pretty readily let go of privacy concerns as soon as security is involved," said Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of Harvard University Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. After all, no one predicted that flight school...
[August 27, 2002, 13:35]
Massachusetts continues OpenDocument debate
News This is a hugely important topic and clearly one that is attracting international attention," said John Paltry, professor of law and executive director at Harvard Law School's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society.
[December 15, 2005, 9:05]
Bloggers threaten revolt after Google swaps standards
News In the past, Winer has answered charges that he exerted undue control over RSS by pointing to its transfer from UserLand, a blog software company he founded, to the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where he is a fellow.
[February 12, 2004, 8:15]
Experts: Copyright law hurts technology
News Ben Edelman, a Harvard law student and researcher, filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against a filter company to defend his research into the company's encrypted lists of blocked sites. For example, security researchers have many more hurdles to overcome...
[March 3, 2003, 8:20]
Merger could end blog format war
News Dave Winer, a fellow at the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School who is commonly considered the arbiter of the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) format, proposed on his Scripting.com Web log that the format could merge with...
[March 10, 2004, 8:10]
Open source InfoCard rival gets heavyweight support
News The initiative also includes the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and Parity Communications, a company developing "social commerce" software that has been operating in stealth mode.
[February 27, 2006, 15:50]
Google warns of drive-by downloads
News According to a Google source, Google security researchers report compromised sites to StopBadware.org, a clearinghouse for web malware research run by Harvard Law School, Oxford University, and technology companies including Google, Lenovo and Sun.
[February 19, 2008, 13:58]
Will merger shut lid on open access?
News Lemley, along with Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig, has asked the Federal Communications Commission to add an "open access" requirement to its approval of AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne Group. Mark Lemley, a professor at the University of...
[January 11, 2000, 14:03]
Do the maths: HAL 9000 by 2018?
Blog For example, work at Indiana University, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Harvard Medical School has uncovered a "superhub", a structure between the two halves of the brain where many...
[July 4, 2008, 12:42]
Red Hat expands, funds OS projects
News Heavyweight backers include John Seely Brown, chief scientist of Xerox; John Gilmore, free software pioneer and architect of the first Sun workstations; Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Harvard; and Sim B.
[November 3, 1999, 15:26]
China bans AltaVista searches
News Just how much they tighten the controls reflects how sensitive they are to the presence of the Internet at that moment -- it follows the pulses of politics around the country," said Jonathan Zittrain, executive director of the Berkman Center for...
[September 10, 2002, 9:43]
A Year Ago: FTC witness list released in Intel case
News They include G Gervaise Davis, an attorney practising intellectual property law in California; Yale Patt, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan; patent attorney Donald Quigg; Frederic Scherer, a...
[February 22, 2000, 5:37]
Analysis: E-firms redefine the competitive landscape
News The highlight of the conference was a keynote by professor Jeff Rayport of the Harvard Business School, who provided new examples of successful e-commerce firms, in particular the fast-emerging auto sales Web sites in the US.
[May 14, 1998, 14:12]
