Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger is Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Director of the Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. He is also an expert on the European Union. Before coming to the LKYSPP he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Mayer-Schonberger has published eight books, including recently "Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age" (Princeton University Press 2009) and "Governance and Information Technology" (MIT Press 2007) and over a hundred articles (including in Science) and book chapters. A native Austrian, Professor Mayer-Schonberger founded Ikarus Software in 1986, a company focusing on data security, and developed Virus Utilities, which became the best-selling Austrian software product. He was voted Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and Person-of-the-Year for the State of Salzburg in 2000. He chairs the Rueschlikon Conference on Information Policy, is the cofounder of the SubTech conference series, and served on the ABA/AALS National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. He holds a number of law degrees, including one from Harvard and an MS(Econ) from the London School of Economics. In his spare time, he likes to travel, go to the movies, and learn about architecture.
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Series
Books:Big Data, March 2013
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