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A - E F - K L - P Q - S T - Z Wolfgang Coy Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Informatik Unter den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin Tel +49 30 20181 303 Fax +49 30 20181 304 [mail] Homepage Wolfgang Coy (b. 1947) studied Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Philosophy at the Technical University Darmstadt. He received his diploma in 1972 in Mathematics and, in 1975, his doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) with a dissertation on the complexity of hardware testing. After schientific work at the TH Darmstadt, the universities of Dortmund, Kaiserslautern and Paris VI, Coy was Professor at the University of Bremen from 1979 to 1996. Since then he is Professor (Informatik) at the Humboldt University in Berlin. There he is the President's commissioner for information and communication technologies, a member of the board of the Informatics Department and Head of the Commission for Teaching and Studies. For the Informatics Society he is in charge of „Informatics and Society“, the students' liaison at Humboldt University and co-editor of the society's magazine „Informatik-Spektrum“. In his teaching, Coy focuses on Informatics and Society and Theory of Informatics; in his research interests he additionally works on the social and cultural history of informatics and philosophical and theoretical aspects of informatics. Philippe Aigrain CEO, Sopinspace - Society for Public Information Spaces, Paris Roland Alton-Scheidl PUBLIC VOICE Lab & Project Lead RegisteredCommons.org, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences Harald Tveit Alvestrand former chairman of the IETF & Engineer at Google, Trondheim, Norway Yochai Benkler Yale Law School, New Haven Alexei Blinov Hive developer, London Maja Bogataj Jancic Director, Intellectual Property Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Detlef Borchers Free-Lance Journalist, Metten, Germany Christian von Borries is a trademark behind which hides a Producer/ Conductor/ Composer, i.e. an Originator registered with Gema, GVL and VG Wort, Berlin Sandra Braman Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Danny Bruder p-pack & copycan.org; Musician and Producer, Activist, Author and Neoist; Press Officer of the c-base, Berlin John Buckman CEO Magnatune.com, Berkeley Atul Chitnis FOSS.IN, Bangalore/India Jonathan Corbet Editor in Chief of LWN.net, Boulder/Colorado Wolfgang Coy Institute for Informatics, Chair for Informatics in Education and Society, Humboldt University Berlin Gordon Duggan Artist and Co-Founder of Canadian based copyright advocacy group 'Appropriation Art: A Coalition of Art Professionals,' Denman Island, British Columbia, Canada Séverine Dusollier Doctor in Law, Professor at the University of Namur (Belgium), Head of the Department of Intellectual Property Rights at the Research Center for Computer and Law, the University of Namur & Project Lead Creative Commons Belgium, Namur

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