 
About the Authors
Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and an IEEE Fellow. He has helped drive innovative educational technology initiatives such as MIT OpenCourseWare, co-founded Creative Commons and Public Knowledge, and was the founding director of the Free Software Foundation.
Ken Ledeen, Chairman/CEO of Nevo Technologies and has served on the boards of numerous technology companies. Harry Lewis, former Dean of Harvard College, is Gordon MacKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. He is author of Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? |
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