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I am a computer scientist, mathematician, entrepreneur and activist. I chiefly work in digital libraries and related fields. I am intensely interested in topics having to do with freedom and the wellness of society. My own contribution to this broad topic comes mostly in the area of Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP) — which is enabling normal people to contribute to knowledge culture when they otherwise would not be able to through intelligently designed internet (especially web-)based collaborative systems.
I consider myself a libertarian in the philosophical sense and an anarchist politically. I am pro-markets, pro-private property, pro-privacy, and even pro-hierarchy (when done right). However, I am staunchly anti-authority and anti-elitist. I am passionate about my work in digital libraries and CBPP as a way to empower the individual and social groups, "level the playing field", and increase the rule of merit in society, through the wider availability of information and better tools for integrating it into, and producing, knowledge. I despise politics and seek to minimize or eliminate it wherever I can.
Currently I work at Emory University's Woodruff Library as Head of Digital Library Research (see "professional page" above, and the "projects" link).
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