Mitchell Kapor
Opening Plenary
"The Open Source Society"
Monday, November 8
9:00am
Continental Ballroom
The dramatic successes of Linux, Apache and other open source software (OSS) projects have demonstrated alternative ways to bring to fruition large-scale undertakings outside the realm of corporate control.
My talk will look into the fundamental processes and patterns of coordination which make this possible, the challenges faced by OSS in expansion of its impact, and will include an examination whether open source represents a broader model for change in science, commerce, and politics.
About Mr. Kapor
Mitchell Kapor has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist. He founded Lotus Development Corp. in 1982 and with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation, created Lotus 1-2-3. Kapor co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, created and endowed the Mitchell Kapor Foundation, founded the Open Source Applications Foundation, and is a trustee of the Institute for Inclusive Work Environments
Mr. Kapor has served as a visiting scientist at MIT's Center for Cognitive Science and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab where he taught courses on software design, Democracy and the Internet, and digital community.
Mr. Kapor has written widely about the impact of personal computing and networks on society. He has contributed articles, columns, and op-ed pieces on information infrastructure policy, intellectual property issues, and antitrust in the digital era to publications such as Scientific American, The New York Times, Forbes, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and Communications of the ACM.
Lawrence Lessig
Closing Plenary
"Hacking the Law To Rebuild a Free Culture"
Wednesday, November 10
4:30pm
International Ballroom - North
In this talk, I will describe the way in which the law has been interpreted to remove the freedoms that digital technology has created -- for culture, and for science -- and sketch the response of some to hack the law to restore those freedoms. Building upon the model of the Free Software Movement, the Free Culture Movement aims to restore the potential -- for creativity and for democracy -- that technologists built.
About Mr. Lessig
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. Professor Lessig is chairman of the board of Creative Commons and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. He sits on the board of directors for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Public Library of Science. In 2002, Lessig was named one of Scientific American's "Top 50 Innovators," and the American Bar Association recently awarded him the Cyberspace Law Excellence Award.
From 1991 to 1997, Lessig was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He then became the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin before moving to Stanford in 2000.
Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and high technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, was published by Basic Books, and his most recent book, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, is available from Random House.
Last updated: June 28, 2004
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