Carl Malamud

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Carl Malamud
Carl Malamud

Carl Malamud (born 1959) was the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service; during his time with this group, he was responsible for creating the first Internet radio station[citation needed], for putting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database on-line[citation needed], and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition[citation needed].

Carl is the author of eight books, including Exploring the Internet[1] and A World's Fair[2]. He was a visiting professor at the MIT Media Laboratory and was the former chairman of the Internet Software Consortium. He also was the co-founder of Invisible Worlds, was a fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was a board member of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation[3] [4].

Most recently, he challenged the information management policy of Smithsonian Networks [5][6], convinced CSPAN to liberalize their video archive access policy[7][8]. and began publishing court decisions.[9]

He has also written many early books about networking such as Analyzing Novell Networks[10] and DEC Networks and Architectures[11].

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  1. ^ Malamud, Carl (September 1992). Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue (in English). Prentice Hall, 379. ISBN 0132968983. 
  2. ^ Malamud, Carl (August 1997). A World's Fair for the Global Village. The MIT Press, 304. ISBN 0262133385. 
  3. ^ Baker, Mitchell (2006-11-22). Bob Lisbonne and Carl Malamud Join the Mozilla Foundation Board. The Weblog of Mitchell Baker. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
  4. ^ Baker, Mitchell (2007-05-22). Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org. The Weblog of Mitchell Baker. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
  5. ^ O'Reilly, Tim (2006-04-05). Smithsonian Sunshine. O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
  6. ^ Malamud, Carl (2006-05-25), Testimony of Carl Malamud, Hearing on Smithsonian Institution Business Ventures, United States House of Representatives, <http://public.resource.org/smithsonian.html>. Retrieved on 27 May 2008 
  7. ^ Fallows, James (2007-03-09). Another win for Carl Malamud (or: news you won't see in the May 2007 issue of the Atlantic). The Atlantic.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
  8. ^ Malamud, Carl (2007-02-27). Congressional Hearings, Fair Use, and the Public Domain. public.resource.org. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
  9. ^ Markoff, John. "A Quest to Get More Court Rulings Online, and Free", The New York Times, 2007-08-20. Retrieved on 2008-05-27. 
  10. ^ Malamud, Carl (July 1992). Analyzing Novell Networks, 2nd (in English), Van Nostrand Reinhold, 340. ISBN 0442013027. 
  11. ^ Malamud, Carl (February 1989). Dec Networks and Architectures, J. Ranade Dec Series (in English). Intertext Publications, 472. ISBN 0070398224. 

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