Archive for "Jan 2006"

Universities to Study Net Censorship, Surveillance

Published in The Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday, January 31, 2006
by Andrew Mayeda
A University of Toronto research lab and its partners have landed $3 million U.S. to study Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide. The money will go to the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project among Harvard Law School, Cambridge and Oxford universities, and University of Toronto’s Citizen [...]

NPR ON Point Radio Interview

I just did a radio interview with Tom Ashbrook on NPR’s On Point radio show. The topic was Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide. You can listen to it here. Timothy Wu of Columbia University Law School, Julien Pain of Reporters without Borders, and Declan McCullaugh of CNET were the other guests

Citizen Lab Hiring

We are going to be hiring programmers and software developers for several new phases of research and projects. Below is the first advertizement. Please circulate widely. Application window closes Jan 30th.
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POSITION SUMMARY
Software Engineer
Citizen Lab
Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
As a key member of the Citizen Lab Development team, the Software Engineer will be programming [...]

Nart Villeneuve in First Monday

Citizen Lab and ONI Director of Technical Research Nart Villeneuve has a great article in the most recent issue of First Monday on the Filtering Matrix Well done Nart!!