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... Personally, this book is the perfect synthesis ofthe themes and topics that set me down the path of studying Internet policy in the late 1990s, and weaves together most ofthe major books and authors ... House Committee on the Judiciary, appearing with the General Counsels of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo He is the Chair ofthe Privacy & Defamation section ofthe American Association of Law Schools ... and other universities around the world THE NEXT DIGITAL DECADE: ESSAYS ON THEFUTUREOFTHE INTERNET 43 Dr Varian is a fellow ofthe Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American...
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... further advancing the state ofthe art in computer networking and paving the road to the Network oftheFutureThe MOMENT platform will provide the means to assess and report the quality ofthe ... development of a Network Theory In future networks, the randomness ofthe quality ofthe radio links, ofthe mobility of users and devices as well as ofthe topology ofthe networks has to be considered ... for the different players The focus is the control functions ofthe Internet – the neck ofthe hourglass, but for control Main Objectives Despite the phenomenal growth ofthe Internet over the...
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... access to these authors was the impetus for this book We began the grand task of asking these authors, many of them friends, to write about their vision for the future, based upon their respective ... one ofthe legacies ofthe recent crisis could be a greater willingness to listen to them Mark Roeder analyzes the role of information in the modern economy Roeder notes that the spread ofthe ... about the fallout from further fiscal deterioration The likely absence of further fiscal stimulus puts the burden of trying to revive the economy on the back of monetary policy Indeed, in the United...
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... influence In the same period, the international importance of other European languages, especially French, has declined Theriseofthe US Will the growth ofthe Internet help maintain the global ... VLACH The remainder ofthe world's 6,000+ languages Figure A language hierarchy for the European Union Figure The world language hierarchy TheFutureof English? 13 Summary The development ofthe ... town in the Netherlands, he is right in the centre ofthe main trend; he feels the strength of being exactly in tune http://www.sony.com/ Case Study Sign ofthe times In the 1960s Britain became...