John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a lyricist for the
Grateful Dead, and a co-founder end Executive Chairman of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation.
He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with an
honors degree in comparative religion in 1969. He and
Mitchell Kapor founded the
Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990 and he currently serves as chair of
it's executive committee. He is a writer and lecturer on subjects relating
to digital technology and society and is a contributing editor of
numerous publications, including Communications of the
ACM, NeXTworld, Microtimes,
Mondo 2000, and
Wired. He is a
recognized authority on computer security,
Virtual Reality, digitized
intellectual property, and the social and legal conditions arising in the
global network of
connected computers.
John Perry Barlow will speak on April 1st at 7:00pm in the Administration
Building Auditorium.
sheneman@cs.uidaho.edu