I’ve finally made up my mind on the grad school issue: I’ll be going to Princeton this fall. I’ll be studying with Ed Felten at Princeton’s new Center for IT Policy, which I expect will be a leading center for tech policy research in the coming years.
One of best things about the center is that under the able stewardship of David Robinson, they’ve put together an amazing series of lectures, lunch discussions, and conferences on a wide spectrum of public policy issues, ranging from hard-core computer security to patent and copyright issues. None of the other schools I looked at have anything quite like it. And of course, the Center has already produced several ground-breaking pieces of original research, which we’ve covered extensively here at TLF.
They’re opening a new building this fall and as I understand it are actively looking for more people to get involved in the center. It’s designed to accommodate people with a variety of backgrounds, both technical and policy-oriented, so if you’re a regular reader of this blog and you’re thinking about going to grad school, Princeton should be on your list. Likewise, they’ve called for visiting scholars, so if you work in tech policy and would like to spend a year in New Jersey, you should get in touch with them. I’ll be there for the next five years or so.
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