IP: Hundt-Farber -- Keynote Colloquy: The Future of the Internet as a Universal Medium, or, Can Public Policy Revive the Telecom Boom? February 7-8, 2002 in Pittsburgh

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

        The Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society 
(InSITeS) at Carnegie Mellon University is staging a conference, 
"Information Technology and Legal Regulation: Promise and Pitfalls -- A 
Summit Meeting on Law, Information Technology and Society," February 7-8, 
2002 in Pittsburgh.  The keynote event for the conference will be the 
following free, public session on Thursday, February 7, from 12:30-2:

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Keynote Colloquy: The Future of the Internet as a Universal Medium, or, Can 
Public Policy Revive the Telecom Boom?

        Reed E. Hundt, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company and Former 
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

and

        David J. Farber, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of 
Telecommunications and Professor of Business and Public Policy, University 
of Pennsylvania, and Former Chief Technologist, Federal Communications 
Commission

In his memoir of FCC chairmanship, Reed E. Hundt, now senior advisor to 
McKinsey & Company, describes a "communications revolution" that "energized 
the entire American economy" and bore significant responsibility in the 
1990s for "[t]he miracle of low inflation, high growth, and continued 
consumer confidence."  According to the former Chairman, a host of FCC 
policies helped fuel the revolution by spurring entrepreneurship, 
competition, and public interest benefits.  With the U.S. economy now in 
recession and the telecom sector in the doldrums, Mr. Hundt and former FCC 
Chief Technologist David J. Farber, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of 
Telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering 
and Applied Science and Professor of Business and Public Policy at the 
Wharton School, address how the telecom boom can be resuscitated by public 
policy to make the Internet a universal medium.

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Other panels will combine cyberlawyers and Carnegie Mellon technologists 
discussing:
- Emerging E-Commerce Technologies and the Law
- Homeland Security and Cybercrime - Challenges and Opportunities in Law 
and Technology
- The Future of Internet Governance
- Intellectual Property and New Technologies
- Legal Challenges of Large Data Sets
- Law and Standard-Setting Processes
- Challenges and Opportunities in Wireless Telecommunications
- Risk Management and E-Business Insurance Issues

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For registration and fee information for events other than the Hundt-Farber 
colloquy, e-mail Dr. Dorothy Bassett, bassett () andrew cmu edu.




--On Tuesday, January 22, 2002 3:07 PM -0500 David Farber <dave () farber net> 
wrote:


> > Did we get anything I can send out



Peter M. Shane
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Public Policy and
Director, Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society
(InSITeS)
H. J. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
412-268-5980
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