Open Source Workshop Panelists

John R. Allison
John R. Allison is The Spence Centennial Professor of Business Administration,
McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, and Professor of Intellectual Property Law, McCombs School and College of Engineering. His primary research and teaching interest is intellectual property (trade secrets, patents, copyrights, trademarks). Most of his research during the past 10 years has involved empirical studies of the patent system and innovation, using data extracted from large numbers of patents.

Current projects in progress include the following: John R. Allison, Abe Dunn (UT Economics Dept.), & Ronald J. Mann (UT Law School), Patents and Business Models for Software Firms; John R. Allison, Arti Rai (Duke University) & Bhaven Sampat (Columbia University), University Software Patents: Trends, Open Source, & Commercialization; and John R. Allison & Mark A. Lemley (Stanford University), The Effects of Precedent on Patent Infringement Litigation (tentative title).

A partial list of recently published or accepted articles includes the following: John R. Allison & Starling Hunter (MIT Sloan School), On the Feasibility of Reforming Patent Quality One Technology at a Time: The Case of Business Methods, Berkeley Technology Law Journal (Forthcoming, June 2006); John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley (Stanford University), Kimberly A. Moore (George Mason Univ.), & R. Derek Trunkey (George Mason Univ.), Valuable Patents, 92 Georgetown Law Journal 435-479 (2004); John R. Allison & Emerson H. Tiller (Northwestern University), The Business Method Patent Myth, 18 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 987-1084 (2003); John R. Allison & Emerson H. Tiller (Northwestern University), Internet Business Method Patents, in Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy 259-280 (Wesley M. Cohen & Stephen A. Merrill eds. 2003); John R. Allison & Mark A. Lemley (UC-Berkeley), The Growing Complexity of the United States Patent System, 82 Boston University Law Review 77-144 (2002); John R. Allison & Mark A. Lemley (UC-Berkeley), Who's Patenting What? An Empirical Exploration of Patent Prosecution, 53 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 2099-2174 (2000); John R. Allison & Mark A. Lemley (UC-Berkeley), Empirical Evidence on the Validity of Litigated Patents, 26 American Intellectual Prop. Law Ass’n Quar. Journ. 185-277 (1998).

John W. Bagby
John W. Bagby is Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and Co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy. He has taught courses and received teaching awards in the law of information sciences & technology, business law, entrepreneurship, regulation, and intellectual property to undergraduates, M.B.A.s and graduate students at Penn State, Univ. of Cincinnati, Univ. of Kansas, the Univ. of Texas - Austin as well as in various executive education programs. He has published numerous articles on these topics in journals in law, economics, business and engineering. Professor Bagby’s interdisciplinary research is sponsored by various agencies covering projects on tort and product liability reform, tort data management, technology transfer, information science and intelligent transportation systems. He has co-authored numerous college texts and served as special editor for the American Business Law Journal's Cyberlaw issue (2003). He served as a Visiting Fellow at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, chair of the ITSA Legal Issues Committee, Chair of the ABA's Task Force on 'Bots (database protections) as well as on numerous university committees and was elected for three terms to Penn State’s University Faculty Senate.

Oren Bracha
Oren Bracha is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law. Bracha is a legal historian and an intellectual property law scholar. His forthcoming book "Owning Ideas" is a comprehensive intellectual history of American intellectual property law in the ninteenth century. Bracha was a law clerk for Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel. During his time at Harvard Law School he worked on various projects for the Berkamn Center for Internet and Society. His fields of interest include intellectual property, cyberlaw, legal history and legal theory.

Patrick Burkart
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Texas)
Principal Investigator for the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute's three-state study of competition in local telephone service and broadband. Co-authored "When Creators, Corporations, and Consumers Collide: Napster and the Development of On-Line Music Distribution" in Media Culture & Society. Researched a video game design lexicon with the Digital Media Collaboratory, UT-Austin. Worked with Web technology companies, including Excite's online communities, Deja.com's newsgroups, and Interwoven's content management software engineering group. Before coming to Texas A&M, he was a Lecturer for "Information Society," "New Communication Technologies," and "Intro to Research Methods" classes at UT-Austin.

Edward A. Cavazos
Ed Cavazos is a partner in the Austin office of Andrews Kurth LLP and an adjunct professor at The University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches Software Licensing. His practice involves advising his clients with regard to wide variety of issues including their key strategic transactions, technology licensing, and general technology-related business matters. In particular, Ed regularly handles drafting and negotiating complex licensing agreements (including joint development and OEM deals), technology transfer transactions (including licensing agreements with private and public institutions) and distribution and marketing alliances. He routinely counsels his clients on open source licensing issues, and he has a national practice representing technology companies developing new open source-based business models. In addition to his transactional practice, Ed has extensive litigation experience in both state and federal courts in matters involving intellectual property, e-commerce and similar issues. Ed is a graduate of the University of Texas (B.A. Philosophy) as well as the University of Texas School of Law (J.D.).

Erin M. Defossé
Erin Defossé is the Director of Technology Sectors of the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and the Director of ATI Wireless, the wireless business acceleration program of ATI. He is responsible for identifying promising early stage companies, admitting them into the ATI, and providing them with the necessary strategic guidance to help them achieve their growth objectives. Erin works closely with companies across a variety of areas in information technology and has a special focus on those that deliver products and/or services using wireless technology. Erin previously spent seven years as the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Isochron Data Corporation, a provider of wireless data communication and enterprise software solutions for the management of remote devices and equipment. Prior to Isochron, Erin co-founded and was President of Navtrax, a developer of wireless tracking systems, and spent over five years as a spacecraft mission design engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Erin currently serves as Board Member of Monebo Technologies, gNumber, Affinegy, and Bigfoot Networks. He also is the Chairman of the Austin Wireless Alliance, the wireless industry association of Central Texas.

Erin holds an MBA and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas and an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.

Larry Huston
Larry Huston, Vice President of Innovation, at Procter and Gamble leads P&G’s “ Connect + Develop” innovation strategy with the objective of insourcing 50% of the company’s concepts, products, packages, devices and technology innovations from outside of P&G from Global sources.

Connect + Develop is a new innovation business model for the 21st century that has been commented on quite extensively by the business press and is one of the strategies that has led to turbocharging P&G’s innovation output. The approach utilizes approaches for defining future growth opportunities, linked to global talent networks, supported by carefully designed “how to succeed” capabilities.

Over the last four years, innovation productivity has increased by 60% at P&G, product introduction success rates now exceed 75%, and P&G stock price has doubled. Larry has led the effort to increase P&G’s external innovation insourcing from 10% of total innovations to over 35%. Connect + Develop has now resulted in over 100 product innovations in the market during the last 30 months, generating $ Billions in new top line sales.

Henry W. (Hank) Jones, III
Henry W. (Hank) Jones, III is a 26-year lawyer, consultant, executive, trainer, writer, adjunct teacher, and speaker. Jones has served on the senior management teams of three publicly traded, global technology vendors in blended business/legal roles, including as Vice President, Intellectual Property Development of U.S. Robotics (then a $3.5B USD revenue consumer and industrial products vendor). He has also worked for 3Com, Accenture, QMS, and Ashton-Tate (pre and post IPO).

Hank’s open source work includes assisting vendors, law firms, users, executives, and projects with strategy, process design, product roadmaps, compliance audits, risk management, partner/supplier audits, product/tech. acquisitions, due diligence, license selection, pre-merger planning, post-merger integration, executive coaching, disputes, litigation, training, and other issues. He works globally from an Austin base, as MemphisHank@aol.com.

Hank been quoted on open source issues by Fast Company and The Deal’s TechConfidential. He represented over 100 software, e-commerce, services, peripherals, data, and other i.t. vendors and users, including shareware and open source practitioners.

His articles on open source issues, risks, and best practices have appeared in Enterprise Open Source Journal, Linux Journal, Software Business Online, Upgrade (bimonthly magazine of SIIA.net), DarwinMag.com, Software Development Forum newsletter, Contract Management, and The Sterling Report.

He has guest-taught at the MBA programs of the University of Texas at Austin, Kellogg (Northwestern Univ.), and other schools. Hank lead and spoken on national, regional, and offshore panels and published on open source issues since ’99, including OSBC 2004, SDForum’s Open Source Summit (2003), Software 2005, Open Group, SWInvest, Software Quality Institute, First Tuesday (Prague), Budapest Engineering University (Hungary), Austin Software Council, TPEN, SXSW, and the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals.

Tony Lanagan
Tony Lanagan is the Director of Engineering Design Services at National Instruments Corporation. In this capacity, he is responsible for driving the strategy and delivery of key technologies that are used in the design flow for both hardware and software products for NI’s global R&D department. He has a broad background in the design and development of hardware, software, and ISO 9001 methodologies. Tony holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas and specializes in operating system technologies.

Karl Reiner Lang
Karl Reiner Lang holds a PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin (1993) and is currently Associate Professor in Information Systems at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), in New York City. He has held previous positions at the Free University of Berlin in Germany and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) in Hong Kong. He has also taught in the MBA program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1999, he was a visiting Professor at the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) at the University of Texas at Austin. His research has been appeared in leading journals and conferences. Karl's recent paper, Open Source Culture and Digital Remix: A Theoretical Framework, will appear in the Journal of Management Information System in the Fall 2006 issue. His current research interests include open source culture, information-based strategies, digital services and the evolution of virtual communities, and mobile commerce. Karl lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Richard MacKinnon
Richard MacKinnon is the President of Austin Wireless, a Texas non-profit organization with the dual roles of public education and community-network operation. Austin Wireless is perhaps best known for its Austin Wireless City Project, an ad hoc volunteer organization with the mission of improving the quality and availability of public free WiFi in Austin. Operating since Fall 2000, the community-owned network includes 100 hotspots and over 80,000 registered users who combine for over 20,000 monthly connections. There are also hotspots in 42 other cities and 4 countries that have joined the network, now accounting for nearly a third of the traffic.

Richard is also founder and CEO of Less Networks, a company which provides commercial-grade Free WiFi solutions to Municipalities and Libraries, Hospitality, and Food Service industries. It’s the only Free WiFi solution built around a Customer Relationship Management system that helps venues attract new customers, build repeat business and increase customer loyalty.
Austin Wireless City Project
Less Networks

Vijay Mahajan
Professor Vijay Mahajan holds the John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in Business in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his BTech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and his M. S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Management from The University of Texas at Austin. He served as the Dean of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India from 2002-2004.

Over the course of his career, Professor Mahajan has researched and written extensively on product diffusion, marketing strategy, and marketing research methodologies. His work appears in such top-tier academic journals as the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Management Science, and Harvard Business Review. He has written and/or edited ten books. He was the editor of the Journal of Marketing Research, the leading research journal of the American Marketing Association, from 1995-1997. He also served as the Associate Dean of Research, Graduate School of Business, at The University of Texas at Austin from 1991-1994. He has given research presentations at more than one hundred universities and research institutions worldwide. He has consulted for both government and industry, and offered executive development programs in the United States, Asia, Europe, and South America. Currently, he is recognized by ISIHighlyCited.com for being one of the most highly-cited researchers in the Business/Economics in the world.

He has been the recipient of the best research paper awards from the Journal of Retailing (1982, 1985), the Journal of Marketing (Maynard Award, 1990), the International Journal of Research in Marketing (1995, 2004) and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (Sheth Foundation Award, 2004). The Graduate School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin recognized him twice with the CBA Foundation Award: in 1991 for Outstanding Research Contributions for his longtime contributions to the marketing discipline, and in 1996 for Research Excellence during the academic year. His book, Convergence Marketing (Prentice Hall), was named 1 of the 30 best business books of 2002, by Soundview Executive Book Summaries®, and selected as 1 of 5 finalists for the 2003 Berry AMA Book Prize for best book in marketing.

Professor Mahajan received the 2005-2006 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur for outstanding and seminal contributions to academics, specifically in the area of marketing studies. He also received the American Marketing Association (AMA) Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award (1997), the oldest and most eminent award in the field, for distinguished academics and practitioners who have demonstrated leadership and sustained impact on the evolving profession of marketing. He received the AMA Marketing Research Special Interest Group Gilbert Churchill Award in 1999, recognizing lifetime achievement in marketing research. In 2000, the AMA instituted the Vijay Mahajan Award for Career Contributions to Marketing Strategy to be presented annually to an educator for sustained contributions to marketing strategy literature. His doctoral students, co-authors, and colleagues endowed this award. Professor Mahajan was recognized by the Indian Culture Center of Austin, Texas, on The Indian Independence Day in August 2002, for his contributions to the Indian Community of Austin, Texas.

Ronald Mann
Ronald Mann is a nationally recognized scholar and teacher in the fields of commercial law and electronic commerce. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, where he graduated first in his class and was the managing editor of the Texas Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Joseph T. Sneed on the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. After three years in private practice, he worked for the Justice Department as an Assistant for the Solicitor General of the United States. He joined the faculty in January 2003 after six years at the University of Michigan Law School, where he was the Roy F. & Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law. Mann founded the Texas Center for Law, Business and Economics, where he currently serves as co-director. He also is a member of the American Law Institute and recently served as the reporter for the amendments to Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He is the author of the first law-school textbook on the subject of electronic commerce and has written extensively about the role of intellectual property in the software industry, focusing especially on empirical studies of venture-backed software firms.

Walter F. McDonough, Esq.
General Counsel, Future of Music Coalition
Walter F. McDonough is the General Counsel and one of the founders of the Future of Music Coalition. The FMC is a non-profit research institute that examines the law, economics and technology of the music business and is renowned for its annual policy conference. Mr. McDonough also serves as a board member on the United States performing rights society Sound Exchange and the Alliance of Artist and Recording Companies. He has written for several publications, including Performer magazine, and been interviewed by National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered" and "Eye on the Media", the Washington Post, Billboard, Music Business International, the Tennessean, and the Boston Globe, among others. Mr. McDonough has traveled throughout North America to speak at the American Bar Association’s Annual Intellectual Property Conference, Canadian Music Week, Pop Montreal, MUTEK, NEMO, CMJ, the Nashville Independent Music Conference, the Future of New Orleans Music Conference, South by Southwest, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Law School and the University of Alberta. Mr. McDonough is also an attorney who represents, among others, the Dresden Dolls and Mission of Burma. He is an adjunct professor of copyright law at Suffolk University Law School. Mr. McDonough was an associate at Carroll Guido & Groffman in New York City, one of America's leading music law firms, a former assistant Massachusetts Attorney General and a law clerk for the Honorable Edward F. Harrington of the United States Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Xuan-Thao Nguyen
Xuan-Thao Nguyen is a Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas. She is a co-author of the forthcoming Treatise, Intellectual Property and Information Licensing Law (BNA) and Casebook, Intellectual Property and Information Licensing: Theories and Practice (Aspen). Professor Nguyen’s book publications include Treatise, Intellectual Property Taxation (co-author with Professor Jeff Maine) (BNA 2003) and Casebook, Intellectual Property Taxation: Problems and Materials (co-author with Professor Jeff Maine) (Carolina Academic Press, 2004). Her law review articles appear in U.C. Davis Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Hastings Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, American University Law Review, George Mason Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, Loyola Chicago Law Journal and Albany Law Review. Her scholarships have been cited in In re Steelbuilding.com, 415 F.3d 1293 (Fed. Cir. 2005); Interstellar Starship Services, Ltd v. Epix, Inc., 304 F.3d 936 (9th Cir. 2002); Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. v. Las Vegas Sports News, 212 F.3d 157, 175 (3d Cir. 2000); and Pharmacia Corp. v. Alcon Laboratories, Inc., 201 F.Supp.2d 335 (N.J.D.C. 2002).

R. Anthony Reese
R. Anthony Reese is Thomas W. Gregory Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in copyright, trademark, and Internet aspects of intellectual property law. He teaches Copyright; Introduction to Intellectual Property; Trademark; Intellectual Property in Cyberspace; Digital Copyright; and Intellectual Property Theory. He was a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School in 2004-2005 and will be a Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law in 2006-2007. He regularly teaches copyright law in international programs organized by the University of British Columbia; St. Peter’s College, Oxford University; and the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Prof. Reese has published numerous articles on copyright law and digital copyright issues in a variety of U.S. and foreign law reviews and collections, including articles about liability of technology developers for copyright infringement by technology users, copyright’s first-sale doctrine, digital technological protection measures, the public display right in copyright law, copyright and Internet music transmissions, and state sovereign immunity and intellectual property law. He is a co-author of the casebook INTERNET COMMERCE (Radin, Rothchild, Reese & Silverman 2d ed. 2006) and will be a co-author with Paul Goldstein of a new edition of COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK AND RELATED STATE DOCTRINES.

After receiving his B.A. degree in Russian Language and Literature from Yale University in 1986, Prof. Reese worked for several years in international educational exchange, including two years teaching in the People’s Republic of China for the Yale-China Association. Prof. Reese earned his J.D. degree with distinction from Stanford University in 1995 and is a member of the Order of the Coif. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, he practiced law in San Francisco for several years, and was a Research Fellow for the Program in Law, Science and Technology at Stanford Law School in the 1998-99 academic year.

Prof. Reese is also Special Counsel to the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP.

His Web site is at http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/treese.

Ken Rozendal
Ken Rozendal is the lead architect for the Linux on eServer development organization in IBM's Linux Technology Center (LTC). Previously, he was lead architect for the LTC's kernel development organization. He has been involved with Linux kernel development for six years and with operating system kernel development for a total of seventeen years. Ken has participated in every Linux Kernel Summit. Ken has undergraduate degrees in Physics and Computer Science and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University
of Texas at Austin.

Petri I. Salonen, Ph.D. (Econ.)
Dr. Salonen earned a doctorate in Information Systems Science from the Helsinki School of Economics. His doctoral thesis, "Evaluation of a Product Platform Strategy for Analytical Application Software" provides software businesses a fresh view of software development using a product platform strategy. Dr. Salonen has earned Master of Sciences degree in Accounting from the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Salonen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer Tellus International, Inc (http://www.tellusinternational.com).

Marc-David L. Seidel
Marc-David L. Seidel is an assistant professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.B.A. and B.A. from Cornell University, and previously was on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Sharon Strover
Dr. Strover, Professor in the Radio-TV-Film Department at the University of Texas, teaches communications and telecommunications courses, directs the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute, and chairs the Department of Radio-TV-Film Department. Some of her current research projects examine statewide networks and advanced broadband services, the digital divide, rural broadband deployment, e-government, telecommunications infrastructure deployment and economic development in rural regions, and market structure and policy issues for international audio-visual industries. Dr. Strover has worked with the U.S. Federal Communication Commission, The Appalachian Regional Commission, the Office of Technology Assessment, the Rural Policy Institute, the Ford Foundation, the European Union, the Texas Public Utility Commission, the Department of Information Resources and Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Agriculture, the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board, and the Aspen Institute, among other organizations. She currently chairs the national Rural Policy Institute’s Telecommunications Panel, and is the incoming chair of the Communication Law and Policy Division of the International Communication Association. Dr Strover also served as a member of Internet2’s Network Policy and Planning Advisory Committee. She received her doctoral and master’s degrees from Stanford University and her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Don Turnball
Don Turnbull is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Don's teaching and research focuses on designing Web information architectures, information systems analysis, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Systems. Previously, Don was the Director of Advanced Development at
Outride, Inc., a Xerox PARC spin-off company acquired by Google. He continues to consult with industry, most recently involving Semantic Web development and Web search design. See http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~donturn/ for more information.

Anthony Tsai
Managing Director, Global Innovation Centers, Global Operations

RESIDENCE: Menlo Park, CA
DATE OF BIRTH: February 2, 1958
EDUCATION: BS Industrial Engineering 1981 Stanford University

POSITIONS HELD AND DATES:
1981 - Corporate Date Center Supervisor (Analyst), Cincinnati
1983 - Corporate E-Mail Manager (Systems Analyst), Cincinnati
1985 - Sales Planning – New Business Development , Cincinnati
1987 - Section Manager, Sales Management Systems, Cincinnati
1989 - Design Manager, Logistics Systems, St. Bernard Plant
1990 - Section Manager, Laundry & Cleaning Products NA Logistics Systems, SWTC
1991 - Associate Director, L&CP NA Management Systems, SWTC
1995 - Associate Director, Technology Services Worldwide, Corporate Intranet Startup, Cincinnati
1997 - Director, Information Technology, Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA); Brussels, Belgium
1999 - Director IT, Global Home Care; Brussels, Belgium
1999 - Marketing Manager Febreze, Global Home Care Design; Brussels Belgium
2000 - Marketing Manager Febreze, Western Europe; Geneva, Switzerland
2001 - Director IT, Global Fabric & Home Care; Brussels, Belgium
2003 - Manager/VP IT, Global Fabric & Home Care and Corporate Function IT; Brussels, Belgium
2004 - Manager/VP IT, Global Household Care, Brussels, Belgium
2005 - Manager/VP IT, Information & Decision Solutions (IDS) & Shared Services, Global Household Care, Brussels, Belgium
2006 - Managing Director, Global innovation Centers, Global Operations, Menlo Park, CA

LOCAL AND NATIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Stanford Alumni Engineering Association (1981- )
University Bible Fellowship Board (1981- )
Founder Information Technology Multi-Cultural Multi-National Team (1984- )
Global Director, P&G Asian Talent Development (1999- )
The Research Board – WE CIO Roundtable (2002-2005)
Business School Program Advisor – UT Austin (2004- )
Executive Lecturer MIT Sloan School “The Secrets of Branding” (2005)
Net Impact Executive Lecturer “Innovation in Developing Markets” (2005)
Stanford Business School Case Lecturer “SK II an Asian Market Success Story” (2006)

Molly S. Van Houweling
Title: Acting Professor of Law
Office: 347 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-643-2670
Email Address: msvh@law.berkeley.edu

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling joined the Boalt faculty in fall 2005 from the University of Michigan Law School, where she had been an assistant professor since 2002. Van Houweling's teaching and research interests include intellectual property, law and technology, property, and constitutional law. She was a visiting professor at Boalt in 2004-05.

Before joining the Michigan faculty, Van Houweling was president of Creative Commons, a nonprofit group that facilitates sharing of intellectual property. Van Houweling has served as senior adviser to the president and board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the entity that oversees the Internet Domain Name System. She has been a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Van Houweling clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Van Houweling’s recent publications include “Distributive Values in Copyright” in the Texas Law Review (2005); “Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, the First Amendment, and Internet Speech: Notes for the Next Yahoo! v. LICRA (Special Feature: Cyberage Conflicts Law)” in the Michigan Journal of International Law (2003); and “Cultivating Open Information Platforms: A Land Trust Model” in the Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law (2002).

Education:
B.A., University of Michigan (1994)
J.D., Harvard Law School (1998)

John von Seggern
http://www.johnvon.info/
John von Seggern is a producer, sound designer, remixer and writer,
relocated to Southern California in 2001 after a decade spent in Asia
(Tokyo and Hong Kong to be exact) performing and recording with some of
the region's biggest acts and artists. von Seggern now lives in Los
Angeles, where he writes music for film and TV, performs live electronic
music with his group Electro Tec Services, and works for leading German
music software company Native Instruments.

von Seggern holds an M.Phil in Music from the University of Hong Kong
and and an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from the University of California -
Riverside, where he did research on online music culture and the future
of music technology. He is also the author of the book Laptop Music
Power ,  a comprehensive guide to contemporary computer music performance.

Andrew B. Whinston, PH.D.
Dr. Andrew Whinston is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in E-Commerce (CREC) in McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in management from Carnegie Mellon University in 1962. He served as an Assistant Professor at Yale University from 1961 to 1964 in the Department of Economics and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics. In 1964, he joined the faculty of the Economics Department at the University of Virginia as an Associate Professor and in 1966 was appointed as Professor in the Business School at Purdue University with a joint appointment in Computer Science. Dr. Whinston recently received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems in 2005 by the Association for Information Systems.