Edward W. Felten
The Future of File Sharing

Edward W. Felten is a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton's Secure Internet Programming Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 1993, and his B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1985. He has been on the faculty at Princeton for eleven years.

His main area of research and teaching is computer security, and his other research interests include technology law and policy, operating systems, computer networks, and Internet software.

Felten has received a number of awards for his research, including a National Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. He has received Outstanding Paper or Best Paper awards at two conferences, including the most prestigious academic conferences on operating systems (in 1997) and computer system performance analysis (in 1995). He has given numerous special and invited talks at academic conferences. This year, he won a Scientific American 50 Award (given by Scientific American each year to fifty innovative contributors in science and technology).

Princeton University computer science professor, author, copyright/security expert, and blogger (his blog is called Freedom to Tinker), Ed Felten warns of "A collision is happening between creativity and protecting intellectual property."

Edward Felten links:
Research, Teaching and Publications
Freedom to Tinker
Dept. of Computer Science at Princeton University