Main Page/ICP Team
Professor
Berkman Fellow and Project Coordinator
Carolina Rossini
ICP Wiki Username: WikiSysop
Research Assistants
Brendan Ballou
Brendan Ballou is a research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, focusing on the Institutional Cooperation Project. Previously he has worked on the Open Net Initiative and Jonathan Zittrain's Future of the Internet blog. Beyond the Berkman Center, Brendan has been involved with Public Knowledge, Free Culture, and One Laptop Per Child. Brendan is also an avid runner, a terrible cook, and an okay stand-up comic.
Brendan was a Research Assistant from XXX to XXX, and contributed to research on Biotechnology - Genomic and Proteomics.
Silas Bauer
Silas Bauer completed his Masters Degree in Energy Policy in May 2009 while working on the Cooperation Project at Berkman. His thesis addressed the economic and political factors affecting the success of US and European renewable energy subsidy programs and proposed policy options to spur growth in US green jobs and the renewable energy industry. He has worked and volunteered in both the private and public sector in the areas of renewable energy policy and energy efficiency consulting, and currently works as a market analyst for a small energy consulting firm in the Boston area. He is an avid triathlete, cyclist and runner. In his former career he worked with high school students in the over-stressed world of college admissions, spending his afternoons as a coach for the school's rowing team.
Silas was a Research Assistant from March 2009 to January 2010, and contributed to research on Alternative Energy.
Andrew Clearwater
Andrew has an LLM in Global Law and Technology with a concentration in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law. He is a recipient of the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law. Andrew is a past president of the Maine Association for Law and Innovation and was recently part of a working group that provided legal and economic research related to offshore wind development to the Maine Task Force on Wind Power.
Andrew was an RA from January 2009 to December 2009, and contributed to research on Alternative Energy and on Diagnostic Kits
Mac Cowell
Mac is developing cheap, reliable, and simple molecular biology techniques and DIY-equipment for amateur biotechnologists. He is one of the founders of a community of amateur biologists called [diybio.org], for people who want to understand, and in some cases, re-engineer the living world, in a safe, economic, and fun way.
Mac was a RA from XX to XX, and contributed to the research on Diagnostic Kits
Erhardt Graeff
Erhardt Graeff is a research assistant within the Institutional Cooperation Research Group project and a recent MPhil graduate from the University of Cambridge, where he focused on sociological theory and qualitative examination of rural internet use and social capital. In various forms/fora, he has researched and written on digital divides, e-government, networked public spheres, new media literacy, and Wikipedia. Occasionally, he flexes his web programming skills gained while an IT student at Rochester Institute of Technology, but right now he would rather work on his Russian than his Ruby.
Research Assistant from XX to XX, and contributed to the research on Educational Materials
David O'Brien
David is an IP attorney and Research Assistant at Berkman. He joined the Industrial Cooperation Project in March 2010 and currently contributes research and writing efforts to the Diagnostic Kits and Case Law Review sections of the project. In addition to ICP, David also contributes to the Citizen Media Law Project, Law Lab, and Global Network Initiative projects at Berkman.
Prior to joining Berkman in September 2009, David held a number of legal positions for Boston-based organizations during law school, including: Fish & Richardson, P.C., Inverness Medical Innovations, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Beyond his work at Berkman, David spends much of his free time pursuing his passion for computers and technology, blogging and podcasting about current cyberlaw and IP issues, and, when time allows, running, cycling, and hiking in the Boston area.
Research Associate
Michael contributed to the research on Telecommunications