For more than forty years, the software development community has leveraged huge increases in computer chip performance and steady drops in chip prices to give consumers what they want: better products at lower prices. In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip (essentially [...]
Phase three of the White House's Open Government Initiative ends this Sunday, and with it a tripartite experiment on receiving public comment about how to make government more open. This is of course an important and monumental milestone. Never before have we seen the intersection of technology and public input [...]
Recently, CISAC hosted the World Copyright Summit in Washington,DC. Having been to my share of intellectual property conferences, I didn't expect to hear anything new or interesting. And while some panels did indeed beat the dead horse dead, a few panels and speeches presented new ideas and perspectives. Mark Heller, a Columbia Law School professor, introduced us to [...]
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, over 500 delegates from more than 55 countries are expected to come to DC for the 2nd World Copyright Summit. Yahoo!News reports that one big theme at the Summit will be the threat posed to artists by digital piracy. According to Kathy Garmezy, [...]
European parliamentary elections are now a mere 5 days away, but a lot of EU citizens seem to be completely uninterested in voting. According to an FT.com article, “[t]urnout in France, as elsewhere, looks likely to continue its steady decline after dropping to 43 per cent in 2004.” The FT [...]