[Nettime-nl] Milton Mueller xs4all hoogleraar aan TU Delft

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

XS4ALL-leerstoel aan TU Delft

De Amerikaanse professor Milton Mueller is deze week begonnen als  
bijzonder hoogleraar op de speciale XS4ALL-leerstoel aan de Technische  
Universiteit Delft. XS4ALL sponsort de leerstoel voor drie jaar.  
Mueller zal onderzoek doen naar privacy en veiligheid, met nadruk op  
mobiel internet. XS4ALL vindt het erg belangrijk dat wetenschappelijk  
onderzoek plaatsvindt omdat internet inmiddels niet meer weg te denken  
is uit het dagelijks leven. Professor Mueller en XS4ALL denken dat zijn  
academische kennis en onze praktische expertise als internetpioniers  
tot interessante nieuwe inzichten kunnen leiden.

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Milton Mueller, a scholar known for his work on global Internet  
governance and professor at the School of Information Studies (iSchool)  
at Syracuse University, has internationalized his academic post and  
strengthened ties to the Internet industry by accepting a chair at  
Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The three-year  
research position was created by the Dutch Internet service provider  
XS4ALL and will be located in Delft's Faculty of Technology, Policy and  
Management, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) section.

"The Internet has brought us wonderful new ways of communication and  
interaction, and it has fundamentally changed the way the world works,"  
says Niels Huijbregts, head of public affairs at XS4ALL. "But our  
dependence on the Internet also brings up issues of security, privacy  
and trust in technology. The subject very much deserves more academic  
research, and we're happy that the internationally renowned Professor  
Mueller will be doing the job."

The professorship, which begins Jan. 1, is part time; Mueller will  
continue to spend 60 percent of his time at the iSchool. At the close  
of the fall semester, Mueller stepped down as program chair of the M.S.  
in Telecommunications and Network Management program at the iSchool,  
and is working with iSchool associate professor Martha Garcia-Murillo,  
who takes over the position in January, to ensure a smooth transition.

"I am not leaving Syracuse, I am adding Delft," says Mueller, who will  
teach two courses every fall at the iSchool and will continue his work  
there throughout spring and summer through frequent trips; he will also  
remain director of SU's Convergence Center. "The appointment  
complements and expands the work we have been doing on Internet  
governance by deepening our research and policy connections to Europe  
and providing graduate students on both continents with better  
opportunities to understand global Internet developments."

"Milton's prestigious appointment is a wonderful opportunity both for  
Milton and for our school, as we hope to focus on greater  
internationalization of our instructional and research endeavors," says  
Elizabeth D. Liddy, interim dean of the iSchool. "Given the parallel  
prestige of the Delft University of Technology and the high rankings of  
the iSchool at Syracuse, I know that the students at both institutions  
will benefit from the synergies created by Milton's dual roles."

XS4ALL has for some time considered creating a chair at one of the  
Dutch universities to encourage research into the security and privacy  
of Internet users. The position will be especially focused on those  
issues as they pertain to the mobile Internet. XS4ALL, one of the first  
commercial Internet service providers in Europe, is renowned for its  
principled stance toward the privacy and free expression rights of its  
users. The company sees this chair as a logical extension of the social  
responsibility it has taken throughout its history.

"I am proud to be associated with an Internet company with integrity  
when it comes to the freedom and privacy of its users," says Mueller.  
"There is a wealth of knowledge about the Internet and its operational  
issues embedded in its workers, and I look forward to tapping into it."

"The appointment of Milton Mueller will enable us to further strengthen  
our research and education in the area of mobile Internet security and  
privacy, and on Internet governance," says Harry Bouwman, director of  
the ICT section of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at  
Delft. "All kinds of incidents around identity theft, spam, phishing,  
organized denial of service attacks, illegal content and the like make  
clear that Internet security requires the attention of scholars. We are  
delighted that XS4ALL offers us the opportunity to take Milton on board  
as one of the leading professors in this field."

Mueller is author of "Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the  
Taming of Cyberspace" (MIT Press, 2002) and "Universal Service:  
Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American  
Telephone System" (MIT Press, 1997). He is on the international  
editorial boards of the journals Telecommunications Policy, The  
Information Society and Info: the journal of policy, regulation and  
strategy for telecommunication, information and media. He serves as a  
partner of the Internet Governance Project, an interdisciplinary  
consortium of scholars dedicated to Internet policy and governance  
research.

Mueller received a bachelor's degree in animation and filmmaking from  
Columbia College and master's degree and a Ph.D. in communication from  
the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of  
Pennsylvania.

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