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Alan Davidson was a visiting professor in STS a few years ago, giving a
first-rate series of lectures on the topic "Liberty by Design."
We are delighted that he will be back in our neighborhood soon for a
lecture that will bring us up to date on this theme. I hope you can
attend.<br><br>
Roz<br><br>
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<font size=5 color="#0000FF"><b>MIT Technology and Policy Program<br>
30th Anniversary Lecture Series on<br>
Current and Future Internet Policy Issues<br>
</font><font size=4>3:30-5 pm in Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101, reception
following<br>
Open to the MIT community and invited guests<br><br>
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Final lecture in Series<br>
Friday, May 12th<br>
</font><font size=6><i>"Internet Regulation and Design:<br>
A View from the Front Lines"<br>
</i></font><font size=5>Alan Davidson<br>
Washington Policy Counsel, Google Inc.<br>
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<u>Speaker Biography:<br>
</u>Alan Davidson is Washington Policy Counsel and the head of Google's
new Washington, DC Government Affairs Office. Prior to joining Google,
Mr. Davidson was Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and
Technology, a public interest group promoting civil liberties and human
rights online. Mr. Davidson led CDT's projects on free expression,
Internet governance, and digital copyright, and testified before Congress
on these issues. He has written and spoken widely on privacy, free
speech, encryption, and copyright online. Mr. Davidson is also an Adjunct
Professor at Georgetown University's program in Communications, Culture,
and Technology, teaching a graduate seminar on Internet architecture and
public policy. In 2004 he was a Visiting Scholar in MIT's Program on
Science, Technology, and Society.<br><br>
Mr. Davidson is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was Symposium
Editor of the Yale Law Journal. However, like many Googlers, he started
professional life as a computer scientist. He received an S.B. in
Mathematics and Computer Science and an S.M. in Technology and Policy
from MIT. Some of early jobs include working as a Senior Consultant at
Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he designed information systems for
NASA's Space Station Freedom Project. He has also worked on technology
and policy issues at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment
and for the White House.<br>
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Director of Special Projects, Technology and Policy Program, MIT
Engineering Systems Division<br>
Associate Program Director for M.Phil. Programs, Cambridge-MIT
Institute<br>
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Rosalind Williams<br>
Metcalfe Professor of Writing<br>
Director, Program in Science, Technology, and Society<br>
President, Society for the History of Technology<br>
Room E51-185<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139<br>
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