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Seminar Series

Over the past seven years the CPI has developed an outstanding reputation for convening high quality policy seminars featuring top experts in the key policy areas. These seminars have been attended by local university faculty members, government policymakers, leadership from non-profit special interest groups, and representatives from the local high tech industry. It is the intention of the CPI to continue this tradition by offering three two-hour seminars and one daylong symposium on the following topics:

Fall 2000 Schedule

• October:
  Do easy Cases Make bad Law? Antitrust, Economics, and U.S. v. Microsoft
  Co-sponsored with the George Washington University of Public Policy. A look at the implications of applying anti-trust law to new economy Internet applications
  

• December
  Intellectual Property in a Brave New World:Deconstructing the Napster Case
  A discussion of the impact of controversial new technologies that either enable or prevent the making and distributing of digital assets. The legal precedents set by the Napster case will also be discussed.
  

Spring 2001 Schedule

• January
  A Debate on Computerized Voting: A New Solution for a New Generation of Voters
  Cosponsored with the Democracy Online Project. A four-hour televised debate on technical, social and political issues related to computerized voting.
  

• March
  The Threat of Cyber-Terrorism
  A discussion of the real and perceived threat of cyber-terrorism on national security and the global economy presented by academic, law enforcement, and policy experts in information assurance and security.
  

• April
  Panel at theFast Forward 01 Tech Expo: Mitigating Risk in B2B Commerce
  This panel brings together experts to discuss how realizing the great promise of global online B2B marketplaces is dependent upon the implementation of a robust trust to create secure, reliable and authentic trading environments that enable traditional business processes such as due diligence, risk assessment, transaction management and dispute resolution to take place.
  

• May
  Spring Symposium - Standards: Bringing Order from Chaos on the WWW
  This daylong seminar will bring in experts from the W3C, NIST and private industry to discuss the role that standards have to bring order to the WWW and enable continued development of e-commerce.
  

Research

The CPI will continue to support undergraduate students, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in doing research on topics in the intersection of policy with computer and telecommunications technologies. During the 2000-2001 academic year, support will be provided for up a full-time graduate student and an undergraduate internship. International research scholars will also be invited to reside at CPI to conduct their funded research.

CPI Fellow Program

CPI will institute a Fellow program for current and former high tech executives interested in doing research in the cyberspace policy area. This program will be launched at the Virginia Campus in Spring, 2001. We will announce this through the Virginia CIT and will start the program with 2-3 CPI Fellow positions. CPI Fellows will be given office space at the GWU Virginia Campus and provided with access to the GWU library facilities and to the Internet. Their topics of research will be negotiated with the Director of the CPI. Special seminars and networking meetings will be developed around their research interests.