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Eli
M. Noam is professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia
University Graduate School of Business and Director of the Columbia
Institute for Tele-Information. He has also served as Public Service
Commissioner engaged in the telecommunications and energy regulation
of New York State. His publications include over a dozen books
and about 200 articles on domestic and international telecommunications,
television, information and regulation subjects.
His
recent books include Telecommunications in Europe (Oxford,
1992); Television in Europe (Oxford, 1992); Telecommunications
in the Pacific Basin, ed. (Oxford, 1994); Asymmetric Deregulation,
ed. (Ablex, 1994); and The International Market in Film and
Television Programs, ed. (Ablex, 1993). Forthcoming books
are Telecommunications in Africa; Telecommunications in Latin
America; Telecommunications in Asia; Interconnecting the Network
of Networks; and The Last Bottleneck of the Information
Revolution: Competing for Attention Span. He served as a board
member for the federal government's FTS-2000 telephone network,
of the IRS' computer modernization project, and of the National
Computer Lab.
Professor
Noam received an AB (1970, Phi Beta Kappa), a PhD in economics
(1975) and a JD law degree (1975) from Harvard University. He
is a member of the New York and Washington D.C. bars, a licensed
radio amateur Advanced Class, and a commercially rated pilot.
Visions of the Media Age:
Taming the Information Monster
