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  • in the news | May 10, 2014 | Future Tense

    Defending the Open Internet

    Tim Wu, 41, a law professor at Columbia University, isn’t a direct participant in the rule making, but he is influencing it. A dozen years ago, bui...
  • in the news | May 02, 2014 | Future Tense

    Beyond Net Neutrality

    That's how things worked when Tim Wu, an academic who's now a law professor at Columbia, coined the term network neutrality in 2002. ISPs purchased...