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Advanced Web-based technologies now allow consumers to either keep files and functions on the desktop, or to buy those services from firms running computer servers elsewhere. Researchers featured on TAP explore the implications of these trends for pricing, competition, and security of content and services delivered and housed remotely.

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TAP Academics

Susan Athey
Stanford University
Competition Policy and Antitrust, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Internet, Search and Advertising, Media and Content, Artificial Intelligence

Erik Brynjolfsson
Stanford University
Innovation and Economic Growth, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Future of Work

Jacques Crémer
Toulouse University
Interoperability, Intellectual Property, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Open Source, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing

Jon Crowcroft
University of Cambridge
Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Internet, Networks and Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence

Neil Gandal
Tel Aviv University
Interoperability, Intellectual Property, Open Source, Standards, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing

Urs Gasser
Harvard University
Interoperability, Intellectual Property, Copyright and Trademark, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence

James Grimmelmann
Cornell University
Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Copyright and Trademark, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Internet, Search and Advertising, Media and Content

Christopher Millard
Queen Mary University of London
Privacy and Security, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing

John Palfrey
Harvard University
Interoperability, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing, Internet, Media and Content

Randal Picker
University of Chicago
Intellectual Property, Privacy and Security, Competition Policy and Antitrust, Copyright and Trademark, Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing

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Cloud Computing

“Cloud computing” describes how computer-related services and software increasingly have been provided over the Internet and other networks since the late 1990s.

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Apple Watch, iPhone 6 Raise Privacy Risks

"It’s a reminder that anything you put in the cloud – even things you think are gone after deleting them – can still be there." — Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington

M. Ryan Calo
U.S. News
September 10, 2014

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Usage Patterns and the Economics of the Public Cloud

Airlines raise and lower prices to ensure that supply and demand are roughly equivalent. But cloud computing service providers usually do not use “peak load” pricing. So far, cloud providers rarely vary prices with demand because datacenter traffic loads are stable.

By: R. Preston McAfee, Aadharsh Kannan, Cinar Kilcioglu, Justin Rao

April 3, 2017

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