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Jack M. Balkin
is
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment
at Yale Law School. Professor Balkin received his Ph.D in philosophy
from Cambridge University, and his A.B. and J.D. degrees from
Harvard University. He served as a clerk for Judge Carolyn D.
King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
and practiced as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine, and Moore in
New York City before entering the legal academy. He has been
a member of the law faculties at the University of Texas and
the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a visiting professor
at Harvard University, the Buchman Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv
University and the University of London.
Professor
Balkin is founder and director of the Information Society Project
at Yale Law School, an interdisciplinary center devoted to the study
of law and the new information technologies. He is a member of the
Advisory Board of the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA)
as well as a founding member of the Conference on Law, Culture,
and the Humanities.
A
prominent legal theorist and constitutional scholar, Professor Balkin's
work ranges over many different fields, from philosophy to politics,
from theories of cultural evolution to legal and musical interpretation.
His books include Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, The Laws
of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life, Processes of Constitutional
Decisionmaking (4th ed., with Brest, Levinson and Amar), and What
Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said. He lives in Branford,
Connecticut.
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Richard
Bartle Ph.D., co-wrote the first virtual world, MUD ("Multi-User Dungeon"), in 1978,
thus being at the forefront of the online gaming industry from its very
inception. A former university lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, he is an
influential writer on all aspects of virtual world design and development. As an
independent consultant, he has worked with almost every major online gaming
company in the U.K. and the U.S. over the past 20 years. Richard lives with his
wife, Gail, and their two children, Jennifer and Madeleine, in a village just
outside Colchester, England. He recently released his book "Designing Virtual
Worlds."
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Yochai
Benkler a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on
the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the
distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the
digital environment. His particular focus has been on the neglected role of
commons-based approaches towards management of resources in the digitally
networked environment. He has written about the economics and political theory
of rules governing telecommunications infrastructure, with a special emphasis on
wireless communications, rules governing private control over information, in
particular intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of U.S. constitutional
law. Previously, Benkler had been a professor at New York University School of
Law, where he was the Director of the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and
Policy and of the Information Law Institute .
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Bruce
Boyden is
a senior litigation associate in Proskauer's Washington, D.C.
office and a member of the Copyright and the Intellectual Property
& Computer practice groups. Bruce's practice is primarily
focused on Internet law and copyright issues arising from digital
media. He has represented entertainment industry clients in
developing and enforcing content protection technologies, and
has counseled companies in the software industry on the copyrightability
of computer programs. He has advised financial institutions,
health care companies, and other businesses in crafting online
privacy policies, shutting down fraudulent websites, obtaining
domain names from “cybersquatters,” navigating encryption export
controls, and defending against online defamation. Bruce is
an adjunct professor at Washington & Lee University, where
he teaches a class on Internet Law and Policy.
Bruce
also represents publishers and others in more traditional copyright
matters, including in appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court. In
addition to his Internet and intellectual property practice, Bruce
has experience with a wide variety of general commercial litigation
matters, including securities defense, contract disputes, and tort
claims. Bruce is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the
New York and District of Columbia Bars.
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Stewart
Butterfield President of Ludicorp Research & Development,
Ltd. is a recognized leader in the field of online development and design.
He directed the 11-member design group (creative/visual/UI, production & QA)
at Communicate.com, where he acted as design lead or managed teams on millions
of dollars worth of projects for companies like HSBC and Sears Travel. As a
principal, he led the re-branding, corporate development and growth — from
100,000 members to 600,000 in under five months — of Gradfinder.com, an alumni
community site. He has also had a long consulting interaction design career,
most recently with Telus, the CBC and The Economist.
Stewart founded The 5k competition, a lo-fi,
high profile design award which has been written about everywhere from
Playboy to Le Monde and Wired to USA Today. He is a
frequent speaker on design and technology topics at professional and academic
events across Europe and North America. In 2001 he was nominated for a Chrysler
Design Award. He has also served on the W3C's XForms working group, been active
in many professional organizations and was recently named to the International
Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and made a nominating judge in the Webby
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Edward
Castronova Edward Castronova obtained a BS in International Affairs from Georgetown
University in 1985 and a PhD in Economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1991. In between he spent 18 months studying German postwar reconstruction
and social policy at universities and research institutes in Mannheim,
Frankfurt, and Berlin. From 1991 to 2000 he worked as an Assistant and later
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at University of
Rochester. Since 2000 he has been an Associate Professor of Economics in the
College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton.
Professor Castronova has authored more than 20 articles in scholarly journals
and is currently preparing a book on synthetic worlds for the University of
Chicago Press. His paper "Virtual Worlds" is the most-downloaded economics paper
at the Social Science Research Network. Professor Castronova is married and has
a son. His hobbies include games and theater.
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Costikyan Greg Costikyan has designed more than 30 games, including 5 Origins Award
winners and the first online game to attract more than a million players. He has
written about games, game design, and game industry business issues for
publications including Wall Street Journal Interactive, the New York Times,
Salon, and Game Developer magazine. At present, he is Chief Creative Officer of
Unplugged, Inc, a mobile game publisher; games editor for the developer support
website of a major mobile phone manufacturer; and consultant and advisor to the
Themis Group, which provides community management and marketing services to the
massively multiplayer game industry. He has also published four science fiction
novels and a dozen short stories.
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Susan
Crawford For 10 years, Professor Crawford practiced law in Washington, DC, at Wilmer,
Cutler & Pickering, leaving there as a partner to teach at Cardozo. Her
practice, which included litigation, focused on intellectual property,
advertising, privacy, domain names, and e-commerce policy issues. Upon
graduation from Yale, she clerked for Judge Raymond J. Dearie, U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of New York. From 1996 to 1998, she taught
Copyright at Georgetown University. Professor Crawford has written extensively
on ICANN. Professor Crawford will be teaching Property I in the fall 2003
semester.
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Aaron
Delwiche Assistant Professor
in the Department of Communication at Trinity University,
has worked as a technology
consultant in both the private and public sectors; directed a team of interface
specialists at one of Hong Kong's leading web design firms; maintains an
award-winning site on propaganda analysis. Research interests include new media,
youth culture, and global civil society. Teaches media messages, multimedia
design and criticism, and video game theory.
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Julian
Dibbell author and journalist, has been writing about digital networks
and their cultural fallout for over a decade. His articles and essays — on
subjects ranging from hacker subcultures to blogger aesthetics to the politics
of virtual rape — have appeared in The Village Voice, Time, Feed, Wired, and
many other publications, both online and off, and have been reprinted in Best
American Science Writing 2002 (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2002), Reading Digital
Culture (Blackwell, 2001), Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture (Duke
University Press, 1994), and other anthologies. He is the author of My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion
in a Virtual World (Henry Holt, 1998), about the text-based online
role-playing game LambdaMOO, and is currently researching a book on the next
generation of massively multiplayer online games. In spring 2003, he and
Lawrence Lessig cotaught a course at Stanford Law School on the social structures
of virtual worlds. Currently working as a contributing editor at Wired magazine.
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Daniel
Egger Managing Partner at Eno River Capital. Has had
experience as an
entrepreneur and CEO of his own venture-backed data-mining software company.
While still a student at Yale Law School, his study of mathematics led him to
patent several data-partitioning algorithms for organizing and searching complex
databases. At Libertech, which he founded in 1992 to commercialize that
technology, Mr. Egger developed and marketed several leading-edge IT products,
including the V-Search data-visualization toolkit and the SiteSweeper Web site
quality control system. After selling Libertech in 1997, he began acting as an
advisor to and direct investor in other early-stage North Carolina IT companies,
including SciQuest.com. He and Paul Jones founded Eno River Capital in 1997 to
formalize their investments in the underserved Southeast early-stage venture
market.
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Mary
Flanagan was
born in 1969 in Milwaukee, USA. She holds an MFA from the University
of Iowa and studied film studies and experimental filmmaking. Currently
Flanagan's projects focus on networked and computer based art and
installation, popular culture, and computer gaming. Flanagan's work
has been shown internationally at venues including the the Whitney
Museum of American Art 2002 Biennial, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica,
Whitney Museum of American Art's Artport, the Moving Image Centre
in Auckland, Central Fine Arts Gallery, New York, the Guggenheim
Gallery Online at Chapman University, University of Arizona, University
of Colorado Boulder, New York Hall of Science, and galleries/events
in Spain, the UK, Norway, Japan, Denmark, Canada, Australia, France,
Italy, Slovenia, and the US.
Flanagan's
essays on digital art, cyberculture, and gaming have appeared in
periodicals such as Art Journal, Wide Angle, Convergence, and Culture
Machine, as well as several books. Her co-edited collection Reload:
Rethinking Women + Cyberculture was published by MIT Press in 2002,
and reskin is due in 2004. She is also the creator of “The Adventures
of Josie True,” the first web-based adventure game for girls, and
is collaborating on a new project to teach middle school girls computer
programming.
Her
projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the
Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the National Endowment for the
Arts. Flanagan was also a producer/designer at Human Code, an Austin
based software developer, garnering over 20 international awards
for titles produced for The Discovery Channel, Creative Wonders/ABC,
and Knowledge Adventure. She has taught media art and cybercultural
studies at SUNY Buffalo, Concordia University in Montreal, and the
University of Oregon. Flanagan teaches at Hunter College in Manhattan
and lives and works in New York.
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Michael
Froomkin Michael Froomkin is a Professor at the University of Miami
School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida, specializing in Internet Law and
Administrative Law. He is a member of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs in London and serves on the Advisory Boards of the
BNA Electronic Information Policy & Law Report and on the Editorial Board
of Information, Communication & Society. He is also a director of
Out2.com, an
Internet startup, and a founder editor of ICANNWatch.org.
Professor Froomkin writes primarily about the electronic commerce,
electronic cash, privacy, Internet governance, the regulation of
cryptography, and U.S. constitutional law.
Before entering teaching, Prof. Froomkin practiced international
arbitration law in the London office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He
clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C.
Circuit, and Chief Judge John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court,
Northern District of Illinois. Prof. Froomkin received his J.D. from Yale
Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of both the Yale Law
Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. He has an M.Phil in
History of International Relations from Cambridge University in England,
which he obtained while on a Mellon Fellowship. His B.A. from Yale was in
Economics and History, summa cum laude, phi beta kappa with Distinction in
History.
Prof. Froomkin's homepage can be found at http://www.law.tm and he
can be reached at froomkin@law.tm. He has just started a blog at
http://www.discourse.net
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Eric
Goldberg is a 25-year game industry veteran and serial entrepreneur, who
has run three game companies: he served as President and co-Founder of
Unplugged Games (2000-2002), a wireless game firm, for which he secured
distribution agreements with four of the five largest North American wireless
carriers; as President and Founder of Crossover Technologies (1989-2000), the
pioneering online game company; and as President of West End Games (1983-1987),
a role-playing and simulation game company, he published Star Wars,
Ghostbusters and Star Trek games.
Eric currently serves on the advisory boards of Unplugged, Vindigo,
Adega Solutions, the New York New Media Association; and, previously, NYU's
Center for Advanced Digital Applications. His other affiliations include AOL and
Warner Music Group. Crain's New York named him one of the 25 Top Players
Shaping Silicon Alley, and Silicon Alley Reporter named him to the "SAR
100". He has been a regular speaker at the Game Developers Conference, E3, the
Mobile Entertainment Summit, the Austin Game Conference, Internet World, CTIA,
the Conference Board, and other industry events.
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Dr.
David Greenfield, Ph.D., CEAP, LMFT is the Founder and CEO of
The Center for Internet Studies which conducts research and training
on Internet use and behavior, as well as providing consulting and
educational services for corporations, the legal community, families,
and, mental health providers. He is recognized as one of the world’s
leading authorities on Internet use and abuse, and is author of
Virtual Addiction: Help for Netheads, Cyberfreaks, and those who
Love Them as well as several professional articles and book chapters
on Internet Addiction.
Dr.
Greenfield’s research and clinical work on Internet addiction has
appeared on CNN, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News Channel, Good Morning
America, NBC National News, and the Maury Povitch show. He has been
featured in U.S. News and World Report, the LA Times, Redbook, Woman’s
World, USA Today, Shape Magazine, The Boston Post, The Philadelphia
Inquirer, The Washington Post, Working Woman, PC Computing, PC Magazine,
People, Newsweek, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Kiplingers,
Forbes as well as numerous other publications.
Dr.
David Greenfield is a practicing psychologist and business consultant,
with specialties in family psychology, business coaching and consulting,
and employee assistance and addictions treatment. He is also founding
partner of Psychological Health Associates, LLC. He received his
doctorate in psychology from Texas Tech University with a specialty
in marriage and family therapy. Dr. Greenfield's clinical and professional
expertise include: marital and family therapy (including child custody
evaluation and divorce mediation), addictions, and employee assistance.
He has developed specialization in the areas of addictions treatment,
brief/solution-focused therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization
Reprocessing (EMDR), as well as in the area of Internet abuse and
addiction problems. Dr. Greenfield provides coaching, training and
consultation to businesses on a variety of productivity and performance
related topics and is a past president of the Connecticut Psychological
Association.
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James
Grimmelmann is
a second-year student at Yale Law School. He graduated in 1999
from Harvard College with an AB in computer science; he has
worked as a programmer for Microsoft and as a freelance writer.
Most recently, he was a legal intern with the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. He is Managing Editor of LawMeme;
his personal weblog is The
Laboratorium. He has been playing computer games since
the age of 7 and programming them since the age of 11.
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Jimmy
Guterman Jimmy Guterman is editor-in-chief of Gaming
Industry News, Ziff
Davis Media's newsletter for gaming experts and top-level entertainment
professionals. Previously, he was founder and president of The Vineyard
Group, a consultancy, which counted among its clients Advance Publications,
Amazon.com, Forbes New Media, International Data Corp., Kagan and Associates,
Microsoft, New York Times Digital, Powerful Media, Primedia, Tribune
Interactive, TV Guide Online, and many other firms, including all major record
labels. He served as
publisher and editor of Media Unspun — a daily newsletter published by
the Industry Standard — the venture-backed successor to Media Grok. His
editorial positions include editor-in-chief of CD Review, senior editor
of INSIDE, and founding editor of Health-IT World. He has
contributed to more than 100 publications, among them Fortune, Harward
Business Review, Rolling Stone, and Wired. He has written five books,
some of which are still in print.
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Will
Harvey is the Founder and Executive Vice
President of There, Inc. Will is a seasoned entrepreneur with a
strong background in computer science, software, and video game
development. Will founded There in 1998 out of a small room in his
parent's house, where he recruited the technology team and built
an end-to-end prototype before raising capital to grow the company
and hire the management team.
Before
founding There, Will ran the dynamic media products at Adobe Systems,
including AfterEffects and Adobe Premier, the world's leading video
editing program. Will came to Adobe when Adobe acquired Will's previous
company, Sandcastle, which Will had founded to develop network technology
to enable low latency interaction over the internet. Prior to Sandcastle,
Will served as Vice President of Engineering at Rocket Science Games
in San Francisco, where he led the company's transition from full
motion video based games to games focused on interactivity.
Prior
to Rocket Science, Will founded and ran several successful game
development companies while simultaneously earning his Bachelor's,
Master's and Doctorate degrees in computer science from Stanford.
Will's doctoral thesis introduced several important search algorithms
which are now used commercially in manufacturing scheduling. Will's
game companies produced Platinum and Gold game titles including
Zany Golf, Immortal, and Music Construction Set, with combined sales
of over a million units. Will has filed 5 patents related to networking,
graphics, and automated scheduling. He wrote his first commercial
video game at the age of 15.
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Dan
Hunter is the Robert F. Irwin IV Term Assistant
Professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
where he teaches electronic commerce law and cyberlaw. He regularly publishes on
issues dealing with the intersection between computers and law, including papers
dealing with the regulation of the Internet, the use of artificial intelligence
in law, and high technology aspects of intellectual property. He is the
co-author of BUILDING INTELLIGENT LEGAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS published by Kluwer.
He has been editor or guest editor of a number of research journals, including
Journal of Law and Information Science, Computers and Law, and International
Journal of Applied Expert Systems.
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David
Johnson Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Yale College (B.A. 1967,
summa cum laude) and Yale Law School (J.D. 1972). In addition, he completed a year of post-graduate
study at University College, Oxford (1968).
Following graduation from law school, he clerked a year for Judge
Malcolm R. Wilkey of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia. Mr. Johnson joined Wilmer,
Cutler & Pickering in 1973 and became a partner in 1980. Mr. Johnson recently retired as a partner of WCP and is
devoting substantial time to the development of new types of “graphical
groupware” software products. His previous legal practice focused primarily on
the emerging area of electronic commerce, including counseling on issues
relating to privacy, domain names and Internet governance issues, jurisdiction,
copyright, taxation, electronic contracting, encryption, defamation, ISP and
OSP liability, regulation, and other intellectual property matters. He helped
to write the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, was involved in discussions
leading to the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, and has been active in
the introduction of personal computers in law practice.
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Peter
Judmaier studied information and communication technologies.
That is an irregular course of study at the Technical
University in Vienna and is concerned with the application
and effects of computer use in all aspects of life.
His special interests are Usability, Information Design,
eLearning and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. He
is a founding member of the backbone.interactive group,
which was formed in the early 1990's on the Institute
of Design and Technology Assessment on the Vienna University
of Technology. Backbone.interactive tries to realize
innovative entertainment concepts with educational background.
A 3D-adventure
game against dictatorship and fascism was their first
project. After that, not satisfied with society simulations
appearing in computer games, with Myzel they developed
a new concept for a virtual society. He
is currently working on eLearning projects for Sustainable
Product Development also at the Vienna University of
Technology.
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Ethan Katsh is
a graduate of the Yale Law School and has authored three books
on law and technology, Law in a Digital World (Oxford University
Press, 1995) The Electronic Media and the Transformation of
Law (Oxford University Press, 1989), and, with Professor Rifkin,
Online Dispute Resolution: Resolving Conflicts in Cyberspace
(2001). His articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal,
the University of Chicago Legal Forum, and other law reviews
and legal periodicals. His work has been the subject of a Review
Essay in Law and Social Inquiry (Summer 2002).
Since
1996, Professor Katsh has been involved in a series of activities
related to online dispute resolution. He participated in the Virtual
Magistrate project and was founder and co-director of the Online
Ombuds Office. In 1997, with support from the Hewlett Foundation,
he and Professor Rifkin founded the Center for Information Technology
and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts. In 2001,
he received a grant from the Markle Foundation to improve accessibility
to domain name dispute rulings. The domain name dispute database,
built in collaboration with the Cornell Law School Legal Information
Institute, became publicly available in May, 2003.
From
1997-1999, Professor Katsh mediated a variety of disputes online,
involving domain name/trademark issues, other intellectual property
conflicts, disputes with Internet Service Providers, and others.
In the Spring of 1999, he supervised a project with the online auction
site eBay, in which over 150 disputes were mediated during a two
week period. During the Summer of 1999, he co-founded Disputes.org,
which later worked with eResolution to become one of four providers
accredited by ICANN to resolve domain name disputes. He is also
an adviser to SquareTrade.com, an Internet start-up focusing on
online ADR.
Professor
Katsh chairs the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Expert Group on ODR and coordinated the 2002 and 2003 UNECE Online
Dispute Resolution Conferences. He has been Visiting Professor of
Law and Cyberspace at Brandeis University, is on the Board of Advisors
of the Democracy Design Workshop, serves on the legal advisory board
of the InSites E-governance and Civic Engagement Project. and is
a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
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Kay Jonathan
Kay is Editorials Editor of the National Post newspaper. In
addition, he is a foreign-affairs columnist for the National
Post op-ed page, a Contributing Editor to the National Post
Business Magazine and a regular contributor to Commentary magazine
in New York City. His free-lance articles have appeared recently
in Harper's, The New Yorker, Saturday Night, Salon.Com, The
New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles
Times, the New York Post, the Washington Times and National
Review Online. He appears regularly on current event television
shows such as CBC's counterSpin, Global Television's national
news and PBS' The Editors. In April, 2002, he was awarded Canada's
National Newspaper Award for Critical Writing.
Jonathan
was born and raised in Montreal, Que. He graduated from McGill University
in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Economics
and Japanese Language. Following short employment stints in Australia
and Japan, Jonathan returned to McGill's Engineering Department
as a computer programmer and postgraduate student, receiving a Master's
Degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1994. Jonathan then studied
at Yale Law School, where he received his law degree in 1997. Before
joining the National Post, Jonathan worked as a lawyer with the
New York City office of Goodman Phillips Vineberg. During this time,
His practice area consisted primarily of U.S. tax analysis of international
corporate transactions. Jonathan became a member of the New York
bar in 1998.
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Sean Uberoi Kelly is a Research Software Developer in the Social
Computing
Group at Microsoft Research (MSR), in Redmond, Washington. He
is currently
the lead developer for Wallop, a social/communications
application for
sharing personal media within social networks. He was
previously a researcher
and developer for MSR's Virtual Worlds Group,
developing immersive content,
user authoring tools, audio, and
multi-user interfaces. He graduated from
Princeton University in 1992
with a BA in English Literature and Visual Arts,
afterwards working in
architecture and design in New York City, and as a
songwriter, guitarist
and producer for Atlantic Records in Los Angeles, where
he specialized
in production on emergent digital audio systems. In 1995 he
attended the
University of Vermont for Computer Science, before completing a
Masters
in Interactive Telecommunications at New York University's Tisch
School
of the Arts in 1998.
Prior to MSR he worked extensively in immersive
and
projected real-time virtual environments with Jaron Lanier, as a
web
developer creating on-line university and educational community
sites
and user-generated knowledge databases, and in designing
sensor-based
interfaces to interactive displays. While at NYU he co-founded
eTonal
Media, a multimedia music education web network and on-line
retailer,
with eTonal CEO Christopher Sung, and consulted to the Virtual
Worlds
Group at MSR. He relocated to seattle and joined MSR full-time in
1998.
He was the Lead Developer for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research
Center's HutchWorld, a network community for
Seattle-based
post-operative transplant recipients and care-givers, and
developed
synchronized and persistent 3D animation systems across
multiple
desktops on the latest Virtual Worlds Platform source release.
From
2000-2001 he was an adjunct professor at NYU/ITP, teaching a design
and
prototyping class entitled "The Multi-User Experience".
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Eddan
Katz is
a Resident Fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale
Law School for the 2003-4 academic year. Eddan received his
J.D. at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley in 2002, with a
Certificate in Law and Technology and honors in Intellectual
Property Scholarship. He received the Sax Prize for Excellence
in Clinical Advocacy for his public interest work with the Samuelson
Clinic for Law, Technology, and Public Policy spanning over
two years. Eddan was the principal student in the creation of
the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse project with the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF) , where he interned during law school,
drafted public comments on behalf of the Center for Democracy
and Technology in a proposed FCC rulemaking on wireless privacy,
and helped write Amicus briefs on behalf of the Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM) and another on behalf of Intellectual
Property professors in cases involving the anti-circumvention
provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). He
was also executive board member for three years of Boalt.Org,
a student technology activist web site.
In
2002-2003, Eddan was a research associate for Prof. Pamela Samuelson
as a visiting scholar at the School of Information Management and
Systems (SIMS) at Berkeley, and was her research assistant for the
two years previous while at Boalt Hall. While at SIMS, he organized
the Law and Technology of Digital Rights Management (DRM) Conference
at Berkeley, and did extensive research on the history of Intellectual
Property and constitutional theory of copyright. He also organized
EFF's Digital Mix multimedia celebration of Illegal Art and published
"Revolution is not an AOL Keyword" on the Berkeley Intellectual
Property weblog, which has since been made into a T-shirt through
the public domain license under which it was released.
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Raph
Koster After completing an MFA in creative writing, joined Origin in 1995 as part of
the original Ultima Online team. While there released Ultima Online and Ultima
Online: The Second Age, and served as lead designer for Ultima Online Live (the
ongoing service for this online RPG) until 1999. Was lead designer for an
unannounced and later cancelled project until 2000. Joined Verant Interactive at
the Austin office in 2000.
Writes and speaks frequently on online game and community issues, and
maintains a website of writings at http://www.legendmud.org/raph/. Several of
his writings, such as "The Laws of Online World Design" are frequently
referenced in the industry.
Panel: The State of the Art: Designing Games, Designing Values
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Nimrod Kozlovski is the author of the book The Computer and the Legal Process (Israeli Bar
Association Press, 2000) and numerous articles on the Internet and privacy law,
computer search and seize and electronic evidence. He was a lecturer in cyberlaw
and e-commerce at Tel-Aviv University and the Tel-Aviv College of Management
where he also previously taught tort and corporate law as a teaching assistant.
After receving his L.LB and L.LM degrees from Tel-Aviv, he clerked for Hon.
Gavriel Kling, Israeli Federal District Court, and Hon. Dr. Michael Chesin of
the Israeli Supreme Court. Currently, an LL.M candidate, Yale Law School (class
of 2002), Nimrod also serves as a member of the Israeli governmental e-commerce
committee and as an advisor to the legislative committee on e-signature.
Panel: Games in Government
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Greg
Lastowka is an attorney in the intellectual property
litigation group at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia. He has published several
articles in legal and popular journals on the application of intellectual
property laws to new media. Greg is a graduate of Yale University ('91) and a
returned Peace Corps volunteer (Turkmenistan '94 to '96). While serving in
Turkmenistan, he co-wrote the first Turkmen-English Dictionary. He later
attended the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 2000), where he was a
Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar, an articles editor of the Virginia Law Review, and
was elected to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he clerked for the
Honorable Walter K. Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit.
Panel: Gaming Communities and their Governance: Political Culture in the Gamespace
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