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...appointment of Jonathan Zittrain—who is currently a professor at the University of Oxford and a faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society—follows that of John G. Palfrey, Jr. '94, Zittrain's Berkman Center colleague who had previously been a clinical professor...
Zittrain will continue to serve as a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center, a research institute that he helped found...
...recent years, Zittrain and his colleagues at the Berkman Center have been working on a number of participatory projects, including the OpenNet Initiative—which "tracks Internet filtering by governments around the world"—and StopBadware—which "looks for participatory technologies to help discover bad code on the Internet and mark it with digital danger flares...
...Berkman Center was crucial: there's just no other place like it in the world," he said. "It's particularly exciting to be coming back at a time when the Berkman Center is going University-wide, and with fellows and faculty whose work spans so many different ideas and approaches...
...Zuckerberg about the theory that closed, proprietary networks like Facebook could stifle the Net's innovative spirit. That idea is the subject of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, a new book by Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He argues that the rise of gated, closed communities like Facebook, the advent of the iPhone and even the seemingly innocuous standards-setting of Google could draw nerd talent away from the disruptive kind of innovation that occurred on the wild and woolly Net. Zuckerberg pauses for a minute...