The Future of Telecom
Gerald R. Faulhaber, Professor of Business and Public Policy and Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and formerly Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and visiting Heinz and Computer Science School Professor David Farber, formerly Chief Technologist at the FCC, will jointly discuss "The Regulatory Landscape for Telecommunications: New Technologies and Implications for Policy," on Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 12:30 p.m. in the Heinz School Auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University.
This unusual installment of the Verizon Foundation Distinguished Lecture series will offer each of the two experts providing a different perspective on current technologies and their possible impact on the future of telecommunications regulation. Their talks will be followed by a moderated dialogue between them, then questions and answers with the audience.
The Verizon Foundation Distinguished Lecture series was established at Carnegie Mellon's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management in 1998 to bring experts in the telecommunications and information technology fields to the university. The Verizon series facilitates sharing ideas, discussing trends, exploring applications of technology and investigating the effects of technology on the broader society.
Verizon Foundation Lectures are coordinated by Carnegie Mellon's Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS). The institute draws on the expertise of about 60 Carnegie Mellon faculty from a variety of disciplines, plus an equally large national network of leading legal thinkers, and fosters collaboration in research, curricular development, policy analysis and public outreach projects aimed at addressing the social, economic, political, ethical, psychological, cultural and legal aspects of information technology.
For more information on the series, please contact Dorothy Bassett at 412-268-4839. For more information on InSITeS, see http://www.cmu.edu/insites.