Philippe
Aigrain |
is in charge of
free /
open source software actions in the European Commission
Information Society Technologies Research Programme. In prior
lives, he has done research on computer processing, indexing,
retrieval and interaction for audiovisual media (video, music,
still images). His fields of interest also include the history,
economy and sociology of information exchanges. |
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James Boyle |
is Professor of Law at the Duke Law School, North
Carolina. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard and
Pennsylvania Law School, and specialises in the law of
information. He has published Shamans, Software and
Spleens and numerous press articles. |
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Michael Century |
has been a policy adviser to the Government of Canada
on the cultural applications of ITC, and was the
author of a major report to the Rockefeller Foundation
on innovation in digital culture. |
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Bill Cornish |
is Professor of Law at Cambridge University, a Fellow
of the British Academy and author of several books on
the law of intellectual property, patents and
copyright. |
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Rishab Aiyer Ghosh |
is International and Managing Editor of
First Monday,
the peer-reviewed Journal of the Internet, and Programme
Leader at the
International Institute of Infonomics. He has written
widely on the non-formal socio-economic and legal
structures of the Internet, and in 1994 developed the
Cooking-pot Market model of non-monetary
economics to explain the functioning of collaborative
development. |
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Mark Greco |
is a printmaker, illustrator and lecturer. |
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John Howkins |
Chairman of the Conference, is Chairman of the
webcasting company
Tornado Ltd., Director of Equator Group plc and author of
several books on the communication society. His next book
The Creative Economy will be published in June 2001. |
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Tim Hubbard |
is Head of Human Sequence Analysis at the
Sanger Center, founded
to further the knowledge of genomes, particularly through
large scale sequencing and analysis. He is Joint Head of the
open source genome annotation project
Ensembl, a joint project
between the Sanger Centre and the European Bioinformatics
Institute (EMBL-EBI).
He is co-author of
SCOP, Structural Classification of Proteins Database,
and is also co-organiser of CASP, the biannual competition
to critically assess protein structure prediction
methods. |
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Christopher Kelty |
is an anthropologist with special interests in
Internet healthcare and in the cultural, economic and
political aspects of free software in the US, Germany
and India. |
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Geert Lovink |
is a media consultant, publisher and producer of radio
programmes. He has worked in Berlin and Budapest and
is now based in Australia. His book Uncanny
Networks will be published in March 2001. |
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Roger Malina |
is an astronomer and editor: he is Director of the
CNRS-Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, and
former Director of the NASA EUVE Observatory at the
University of California, Berkeley.
Since 1981 he has been the Executive Editor of
Leonardo Publications
(http://mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo),
which document the work of artists and
researchers involved in the application of contemporary
science and technology in the arts. He is a member of
the International Academy of Astronautics. |
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Robin Mansell |
is Professor of New Media and the Internet at the
London School of Economics. She is known for her work
on the social, economic and technical issues arising
from new technologies. |
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Glyn Moody |
read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he
was also awarded a PhD in Quantum Mechanics. He started writing
Getting Wired, a weekly page about the business use
of the Internet that appears in Computer Weekly, the
UKs top technology title, in 1994. His work has also appeared
in The Economist, New Scientist and many national
newspapers. He has published four books, of which
Rebel Code (Penguin 2001) is the most recent. |
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Antoine Moreau |
is an artist and founder of Copyleft and of the
newsgroup fr.rec.arts.plastiques for information about
art and artists. |
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Alok Nandi |
is a lecturer, writer and director in the
new media,
including mixed media.
He is preparing installations for Porto 2001. |
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John Naughton |
is leader of the Going Digital project at the Open
University and a fellow of Wolfson College,
Cambridge. He runs the Press Fellowship Programme and
is involved in the creation of Open Source teaching
materials. |
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Anne Nigten |
is Managing Director of the V2 Laboratory in
Rotterdam. She is a visual designer and lecturer in
the audio-visual arts. |
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Drazen Pantic |
is the founder of OpenNet, the Internet department of
Radio B92 in Belgrade. He has lectured and published
widely on the use of the Internet to support
independent media and free expression. |
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Bruce Perens |
is a software engineer turned business person, primary
author of The Open Source Definition, the
formative document of the Open Source movement, and
founder of Linux Standard Base and the Open Source
Initiative. |
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Simon Pope |
is an artist, lecturer, producer and software designer. |
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Hannu Puttonen |
is a Finnish film-maker and writer. The most recent
documentary film by Puttonen, The Code (2001),
is about the free software movement, most specifically on the
GNU/Linux phenomenon, featuring Linus Torvalds, Richard M Stallman
and Eric Raymond. Earlier works include two documentaries on
British songwriters Billy Bragg (Mr. Bragg Goes to
Moscow) and Momus (Man of Letters).
Puttonen lives in Helsinki. Besides directing documentary
films, he makes experimental radio plays and lectures on
media art at the University of Lappland. |
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Richard Stallman |
is the founder of the GNU free operating system, the
principal author of the GNU C compiler and other
programs, and holds an honorary doctorate at the Royal
Institute of Technology in Sweden. |
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Marilyn Strathern |
is Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge and Professor
of Social Anthropology. She specialises in the
anthropology of kinship, ownership and gender. |
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Justin Watts |
is a solicitor and a partner in the London intellectual
property specialists Bristows. He is a chartered engineer and
holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Cambridge
University. He specialises in software, electronics and IT
patent litigation and has been involved in many cases testing
the relationship between patents, standards, and competition
law in the IT field. |
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Martha Woodmansee |
is at the English Department of Case Western Reserve
University, Ohio, and has written several books on
authorship and intellectual property. She is
especially interested in the collaborative nature of
creative production. |
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Bob Young |
has twenty years experience in computer industry
finance and marketing and has been recognised among
Business Weeks top entrepreneurs. He
is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Red Hat Center, now
known as the
Center for
the Public Domain. |
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