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Daniel J. Weitzner

• Research
• Teaching
• Writing & Presentations
• Work at W3C
• Other Activities

Research

I am Director of the MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group. Current projects include:

• Policy Aware Web access control project
• Transparent Accountable Data Mining Initiative (TAMI)

Teaching

Teaching at MIT:

• MIT 6.805 - Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier (every Fall)
• MIT 6.898 - Transparency and Accountability Architectures for the World Wide Web (Fall 2007)
• Semantic Web Bootcamp - IAP 2007

Selected Writing and Presentations

Information Accountability

• Information Accountability (alt link)
  Weitzner, Abelson, Berners-Lee, Feigenbaum, Hendler, Sussman
  Communications of the ACM, Jun. 2008, 82-87
  

IEEE Internet Computing Technology and Society Columns

• Beyond Secrecy: New Privacy Protection Strategies for Open Information Spaces (Sept/Oct 2007)
• Whose Name is it Anyway? Decentralized Identity Systems on the Web (July/August 2007)
• Free Speech and Child Protection on the Web (May/June 2007)
• From Home to Home Page: New Challenges to Basic Notions of Privacy and Property (March/April 2007)
• Twelve Billion Bargaining Chips: The Web Side of the Net Neutrality Debate (January/February 2007)
• In Search of Manageable Identity Systems (October/November 2006)

Public Public Policy Challenges of the Semantic Web

• Weitzner, Abelson, Berners-Lee, Hanson, Hendler, Kagal, McGuinness, Sussman, Waterman, Transparent Accountable Data Mining: New Strategies for Privacy Protection,; MIT CSAIL Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-007 [DSpace handle](27 January 2006).
• The Transparency Paradox: Privacy design strategies for open information networks (extended abstract)
• Testimony before the United States Senate Commerce Committee, Online Privacy and the Platform for Privacy Preferences
• Computerworld Columns on the Transparent Enterprise
  • Transparency Is Clearly on the Way (9 August 2004)
  • We Need to Know What We're Missing: Seeking More Transparent Spam and Content Filtering (27 September 2004)
  • Openness as a Privacy Protection Strategy (25 October 2004)
  • Buildings Become Information Systems (29 November 2004)

Semantic Web Technology

• Privacy, Provenance, Property and Personhood: Semantic Web Public Policy Challenges, Keynote Presentation at 4th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2005.
• Weitzner, Hendler, Berners-Lee, Connolly, Creating the Policy-Aware Web: Discretionary, Rules-based Access for the World Wide Web

Patent Policy

• Patents, Standards and the Dynamics of Innovation on the World Wide Web (PDF)
• Testimony before the US Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice Joint Hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy: Standards and Intellectual Property: Licensing Terms
• Letter to US Patent and Trademark Office urging re-examination of Eolas Patent ('906)

Work at W3C

• Technology and Society Domain Policy Director: Privacy, Security, Semantic Web
• Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences, Chair
• Patents and Standards Internet Group, Chair

Other Activities

• Web Science Research Initiative, Founding Director
• Software Freedom Law Center, Founding Member, Board of Directors
• Center for Democracy and Technology, Co-founder and Member, Board of Directors
• National Academy of Sciences, Study Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications