My general, long-term interests include: non-linear dynamics, applied mathematics, operations research, behavioral biology (ESS theory of games with information collection), social system evolution, distributed artificial intelligence, cognition, genetic algorithms, and biologically realistic neural networks. Have worked with examples of chaos that have practical effects in a computer system (1986).
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The following selections illustrate the sorts of mainstream academic discourse that would have become illegal on the internet under the legislation declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. Also included is the letter that was sent to a number of Senators in April, 1995. For fuller information, I direct you to the cited books in each case.
Art---this example is discussed on page 31 of the February 1996 Scientific American.
There are some Supreme Court decisions that were illegal to post under the CDA. This is one such.
Letter to Selected Senators (text version)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted a detailed analysis of this law.
If you're interested in the meaning of academic freedom, touch here.
Some comments on civil disobediance.
Please mail comments or suggestions to: herwin@theworld.com. I'm particularly interested if anyone considers any of these citations 'patently offensive' in addition to 'indecent'.
The freedom of speech is much more limited here in the United Kingdom. For example, it was traditional here to try people for treason based on their speech, not necessarily on their acts. Having quite a few ancestors who ran afoul of that in England, I wasn't sure I wanted to teach here. It remains convenient for me to maintain residences on both sides of the Atlantic and maintain this website in Boston.
The UK Government has recently proposed to criminalize speech 'glorifying terrorism'. I have a number of comments and will write at greater length here later:
