Jonathan Zittrain

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Jonathan Zittrain
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George Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, Professor
of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and
Co-Founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include the
ethics and governance of artificial intelligence; battles for control of digital property; the regulation of
cryptography; new privacy frameworks for loyalty to users of online services; the roles of intermediaries
with in Internet architecture; and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. He
is currently focused on the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence and teaches a course on the
topic. His book, The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It, predicted the end of general purpose
client computing and the corresponding rise of new gatekeepers.  That and other works may be found at
<http://www.jz.org>.