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Public Safety Month I

June 17, 2013

For Public Safety Month, Ian Brown and Christopher Marsden the authors of Regulating Code write about the recent scandal involving the collection of Verizon user's metadata, and how it relates to Public Safety. The authors are giving talks at MIT and Harvard today, June 17th.

National Transportation Week II

We started off National Transportation week with a post from Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis. The second post of our series is a Q & A with Paul Leonardi author of Car Crashes Without Cars. Y...

National Transportation Week

We are celebrating National Transportation Week May 12-18th with a series of transportation themed MIT books. Check out our first post from Changing Lanes authors Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis....

Selfishness in the long-run

Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga, editors of Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, weigh in on Keynes, selfishness, and the quality of ideas.

Spam

Finn Brunton, author of recently released, Spam with some insight on the arrest of a suspect in the largest DDoS attack in history, aimed at Spamhaus, an anti-spam project.