Edward Felten

Edward W. Felten ( William Edward "Ed" Felten, born March 25, 1963) is a professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University.

Felten has done a variety of research in computer security, including authentication, and deals with the security related to the Java programming language. He is best known probably for his work on a contest with the Secure Digital Music Initiative ( SDMI).

Life

Felten is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, which he left in 1985 with a degree in physics. From 1986 to 1989 he worked at Caltech in a project with parallel supercomputers. He then enrolled at the University of Washington as a graduate student of computer science. In 1991, he received his " Master of Science" degree in 1993 and doctoral degrees. Subject of his doctoral thesis was the development of an automatic protocol for communication between parallel processors.

He became a member of the teaching staff of the faculty of computer science at Princeton University in 1993. He worked as a consultant for law firms, corporations, private foundations and government agencies. His area of ​​research includes computer security and technology policies.

He lives with his family in Princeton (New Jersey).

U.S. against Microsoft

Felten occurred in the process U.S. against Microsoft, in which the company was accused of having committed several violations of the right to monopoly, as a witness of the U.S. government.

Current activities

Today Felten is an active voice in the field of technology policy, which was expressed in his blog Freedom to Tinker and explains his appearance as a witness before Congress on copyright issues.

Quotes

" Given the choice between dancing pigs and security, users will always choose the dancing pigs. "