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Networks and Infrastructure

Although “the Internet” seems ethereal, it is in fact a network of networks that connects billions of users around the world. The capabilities of the Internet are dependent on the reach of those networks. Many governments worldwide are considering how to effectively and efficiently make robust networks available to their citizens to enable them to access the Internet.

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Research Articles

Title Author Year

The Challenge of Increasing Broadband Capacity

This paper looks at technology that increases the bandwidth of existing networks that carry broadband traffic.

 Dale Hatfield 2010

Dr. Generative or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone

This paper reviews Jonathan Zittrain's 2008 book, The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It

 James Grimmelmann, Paul Ohm 2010

National Broadband Plan, The

This paper considers problems the FCC will face in coming up with a national broadband plan for the United States.

 Gregory L. Rosston 2010

Master Switch, The: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

This book looks at how radio, television, and the telephone evolved, and argues that the Internet might be similar.

 Tim Wu 2010

Network Neutrality after Comcast: Toward a Case-by-Case Approach to Reasonable Network Management

Synopsis coming soon.

 Christopher Yoo 2009

Next Generation Connectivity

Synopsis coming soon

 Urs Gasser, Robert Faris, Yochai Benkler, Stephen Schultze, Laura Miyakawa 2009

An Antitrust Analysis of the Case for Wireless Network Neutrality

This article asks whether wireless firms should be regulated to improve competition.

 Gregory L. Rosston, Michael Topper 2009

Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability?

This paper asks if patents on communications technology make it hard for firms to build products that work together.

 Pamela Samuelson 2009

Free Speech and the Myth of the Internet as an Unintermediated Experience

This paper asks how best to protect free speech on the Internet.

 Christopher Yoo 2009

Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions

This looks at why bidders pay different prices for similar rights in FCC auctions for rights to use wireless spectrum.

 Jonathan Levin, Jeremy Bulow, Paul Milgrom 2009
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Woodrow Hartzog Discusses How Contact-Tracing Apps Could Reshape Surveillance

In an op-ed article for the Los Angeles Times, Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University, shares his insights into Google and Apple’s contact tracing project, and he discusses the “three concerns to keep in mind about relying on technology to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis.”

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Fact Sheets

Wireless and Mobile Communications

Wireless or “mobile” devices send information one-to-one (like mobile phones), one-to-many (like AM or FM radio), or many-to-many (like Wi-Fi Internet access). Wireless devices send and receive signals along the electromagnetic spectrum in the form of waves similar to visible light or sound.

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How Will COVID-19 Change the World by 2025? How Remote Learning Changes Education

"To close the digital divide, the federal government needs to view broadband like the US Postal Service when it was first developed, concentrating on connecting all citizens rather than just communities where the service makes economic sense." — Randal Picker, Professor of Law, University of Chicago

Randal Picker
Futurity
May 6, 2020

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