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24 Apr 2014

The FCC and the Future of Communication Policy: A Quello Center Communication Policy Forum

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 Watch the panel on the C-SPAN website. The Quello Center organised a DC Policy Forum about the future of the FCC and its role in the regulation of digital media. Moderated by Richard Wiley, the panel featured individuals with years of experience in the regulation of communication in a discussion that ranged across a wide array of issues. Moderator: Richard E. Wiley, Chairman of Wiley Rein LLP, a Washington, DC law firm, and is a former Chairman, Commissioner and General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (1970-77) Panelists: Rachelle Chong – Commissioner Chong had the honor of serving with Jim […]
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15 Nov 2013

Interview with Alessandro Acquisti, speaker for the 2013 Quello Lecture: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality

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Alessandro Acquisti is an associate professor at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the co-director of CMU Center for Behavioral and Decision Research. He investigates the economics of privacy. His studies have spearheaded the application of behavioral economics to the analysis of privacy and information security decision making, and the analysis of privacy and disclosure behavior in online social networks. Alessandro has been the recipient of the PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, the IBM Best Academic Privacy Faculty Award, multiple Best Paper awards, the Heinz College School of Information’s Teaching Excellence Award. He has […]
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06 Feb 2013

Johannes Bauer Receives 2013 Distinguished Faculty Award at MSU

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MSU has named Professor Johannes Bauer as the recipient of a Distinguished Faculty Award. Johannes has helped direct the Quello Center and is one of its major researchers. Professor Bauer has gained a reputation as one of the world’s leading scholars in the area of telecommunications policy, with a remarkable record of global engagement, sustained productivity and grant funding. Bauer’s research on the governance of complex network infrastructures has informed policy makers and scholars throughout the world. He has applied economic theory to analyze how malware evolves, which has led to new Internet security approaches, while concurrently developing a distinct […]
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05 Jan 2013

Steven Wildman Appointed As Chief Economist for the FCC

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FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced today the appointment of Steven Wildman to the position of FCC Chief Economist. Professor Wildman, an expert on communications and media issues, will commence his role in January 2013. Chairman Genachowski said, “I’m very pleased that Steve will be joining the Commission. He has a stellar record as an economist and has conducted important research on broadband adoption and spectrum management, among other topics. The Chief Economist’s role and office are critical to the agency’s work and its understanding of complex economic issues related to the communications sector. “I would also like to commend and […]
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08 Dec 2012

Professors Wietske Van Osch and Constantinos K. Cousaris Receive Best Paper Award at the 2012 International Conference on Information Systems!

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Professors Wietske Van Osch and Constantinos K. Cousaris Receive Best Paper Award at the 2012 International Conference on Information Systems! The International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) is the major annual meeting of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which has over 4,000 members representing universities in over 95 countries worldwide. It is the most prestigious gathering of academics and practitioners in the IS discipline. Each year, over 1,000 Information Systems academic professions participate in the conference program – the theme this year being Digital Innovation and the Service Economy – and two of our very own Department faculty received […]
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18 Aug 2011

Governance of Social Media: A Quello Center Workshop

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November 11 & 12, 2011, Georgetown University, Washington, DC For a large and growing portion of the population, social media of various types have become an integral part of daily life, and businesses based on social media have become a major economic force. Given their pervasive influence on institutions and society, it is time to start developing a more comprehensive framework to guide policy responses to the challenges raised by social media, which to this point have been addressed piecemeal as they become salient. This workshop is designed to stimulate thinking on what such a framework might look like, examining: […]
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11 Jul 2011

Quello Center Director & PhD Student Receive Award

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PhD student Sang Yup Lee and Quello Center Director Steve Wildman were awarded the inaugural Katherine B Snow Research Paper Award at the April 2011 conference of the International Telecommunications Education and Research Association (ITERA) for their paper, “The Online Casual Games Industry: A Multisided Platform Perspective.” This was the first “Katherine B. Snow Best Research Paper Award” given to any recipients. Dr. Wildman explains, “Sang and I both felt honored to be the first recipient’s of ITERA’s Katherine B. Snow Research Paper Award. Many of the analytical challenges raised by the explosion of internet based content and services converge […]
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